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5 unusual facts about Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone


Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone

They then went north to Camp Collins, Colorado and built a house to provide the army officers' mess.

:The army decommissioned Camp Collins in March 1867, so the house built as an officer's mess was turned into the first hotel in Fort Collins, Colorado by Stone, which housed and fed Overland Trail travelers.

Elizabeth Robbins, who still had three sons to raise, moved back to New York for a period of time.

The Blake House was one of the hotels which was torn down to make way for the Union Pacific Railroad.

She was the first Euro American woman settler who created a sense of community for the soldiers at Camp Collins and the only woman founder of the town of Fort Collins.



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