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PROJECT: Street Naming - Stone Street - #54-89
OWNER: City of Fort Collins
APPLICANT: Same
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This is a request to name a publicly dedicated street that will serve the new
Olander Elementary School, located in the Horsetooth West Master Plan, west of
Taft Hill Road, and north of Horsetooth Road. The proposed street name is Stone
Street.
RECOMMENDATION: Approval
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The Poudre R-1 School District has purchased Parcel F of the Horsetooth West
Master Plan for the new Olander Elementary School. This school will be served
by a public street designated on the approved Master Plan as a collector street.
The row for this street has been accepted by the City. The purpose of the plat is
to name the street.
The proposed name Stone Street was selected off the official list of street names
adopted by the City Council for naming collector and arterial streets. The
historic significance of the name Stone Street is attached. Staff believes the
naming of a public street in front of an elementary school after an historic Fort
Collins pioneer is appropriate as well as educational.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the acceptance of Stone Street by a Street Plat.
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"Auntie" Stone
Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone, an important pioneer woman in our commu-
nity, was born in 1801 in Hartford, Connecticut. After being widowed with
eight children to support, she remarried Lewis Stone in Minnesota in the
1850's. They moved west to Denver to run a restaurant after the Indian
Outbreak of 1862. In 1864, as the soldiers were moving to a new site down-
stream from Laporte, she and her husband arrived to build a cabin on the
Denver Road (Jefferson Street) and run a boarding house for the officers.
A good cook, she mothered the soldiers out at the end of nowhere and they
adopted her, nicknaming her, "Auntie" Stone. She was the first white woman
to be a permanent resident of the fort, and her cabin, now in Library Park,
is the only building surviving from those days. In 1866 she was widowed
again, but she elected to stay in the evolving new town and mothered the
community as she had the soldiers. She started the first school in her
cabin and recruited her niece Elizabeth Keays to be the first schoolteacher
of fourteen children. She opened her cabin as a hotel taking in boarders.
Many notables came and ate there including General Sherman. When the fort
closed in 1867, she became the first businesswoman by going into partner-
ship with the gunsmith, Henry Clay Peterson. Together they built the first
brick kiln and flour mill in 1869. Through her later years she continued
to be involved in all things in the community. Her parties, gaity, and
friendliness were enjoyed by everyone, and when women in Colorado received
the vote in 1894, Auntie exercised this right at 93 years of age. The bell
on City Hall tolled ninety-four times in December, 1895, to mark the pass-
ing of this favorite pioneer who, in the days of the fort, had been known
from Julesburg to the Green River as "Auntie."
by Carol Tunner, Historic Preservation Specialist
Excerpts from "Fort Collins Yesterdays" by Evadene Burris Swanson and oral
interview with Mrs. Ernest (Margaret -"Auntie Stone") Rogers.
300 LaPorte Avenue • P.O. Box 580 • Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 • (303) 221-6750
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