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1-800 WATER DAMAGE of Northern Colorado is the trusted name in restoration services for Greeley. Dealing with disasters such as flooding, fire, sewage, and more can be stressful. Often, these situations occur unexpectedly—do you know who to call if it happens to you? We have over a decade of industry-leading experience and our highly-trained professionals have the tools and knowledge necessary to get your property looking like new again.
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Facts About Greeley
Greeley is in northern Colorado and is situated 49 miles (79 km) north-northeast of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. According to a July 2015 estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the city is 100,883, and a 2014 population estimate made Greeley the 12th-most populous city in Colorado. Greeley is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
The town was named after Horace Greeley, editor of the New-York Tribune, who came to Colorado in the 1859 Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. It was founded as the Union Colony in 1869, an experimental utopian society, but the name was later changed in honor of Greeley. Governor Benjamin Harrison Eaton declared Greeley an official city on April 6, 1886.
Greeley was built on farming and agriculture, but kept up with most modern technologies as they grew. Telephones were in town by 1883 with electric lights downtown by 1886. Automobiles were on the roads alongside horse drawn buggies by 1910. KFKA became one of the first radio stations to broadcast in the USA in 1922 and the Greeley Municipal Airport was built in 1928. Greeley housed two POW camps in 1943, during World War II. One was for German POWs and the other was for Italian POWs. A vote to allow the sale of alcohol passed by a mere 477 votes in 1969, thus ending temperance in the city.
In 1958, Greeley became the first city to have a Department of Culture. Greeley is still growing and changing today; its population has more than doubled since 1970.
Greeley is a sister city to Moriya, a city located in Japan’s Ibaraki Prefecture. Every other summer 18 students from Moriya come to Greeley for a week-long stay.
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