HomeMy WebLinkAboutAUNTIE STONE STREET NAMING PLAT - 54-89 - - CITY COUNCILAGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER:
DATE: February 6, 1990
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Ted Shepard
SUBJECT:
Resolution 90- Accepting the Auntie Stone Street Plat For the Purpose of
Naming a Dedicated Public Right -of -Way.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends acceptance of the Resolution. The Planning and Zoning
Board recommended approval, unanimously, at their regular meeting of
January 22, 1990.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The purpose of the Resolution is to accept the Auntie Stone Street Plat in
order to name a new collector street that will serve the new Olander
Elementary School. Olander School is located in the Horsetooth West Master
Plan, west of Taft Hill Road, and north of Horsetooth Road. The
right-of-way for the new collector street was accepted by a separate Deed
of Dedication and Motion by City Council at their regular meeting of
December 19, 1989. Since the street was not named at the time of the Deed
of Dedication or Motion by City Council, the Auntie Stone Street Plat will
serve as the official documentation to name the collector street. The
name, Auntie 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, Auntie Stone Street, is
attached as background.
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RESOLUTION 90-
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A STREET
PLAT FOR AUNTIE STONE STREET
WHEREAS, on January 22, 1990, the Planning and Zoning Board of the
City of Fort Collins approved a street plat for the designation of a
certain street in the City of Fort Collins as Auntie Stone Street; and
WHEREAS, the land upon which said street is located is presently owned
by the City of Fort Collins; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 31-23-104, C.R.S., when any such plat
embraces in its description any street or other land owned by a city, said
plat shall be acknowledged by the mayor of the city when authorized by a
resolution or ordinance of the city council; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this Resolution is authorize the Mayor to
acknowledge said plat on behalf of the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that the Mayor be and he hereby is authorized to acknowledge and
execute, on behalf of the City, the Auntie Stone Street Plat.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of
Fort Collins held this 6th day of February, A.D. 1990.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Develcdbent Services
Planning Department
City of Fort Collins
"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
ITEM STONE STREET PLAT
NUMBER 54-89