Discovering Liberty Hall, Colorado

Advertising piece from Millers Service Station. There are two pictures with a thermometer in the middle. the picture on the left is of a tranquil cottage scene at dusk, with smoke coming out of the chimney. The other is a sunset scene with an outcropping of rocks in the foreground overlooking a body of water.

 Originally known as Liberty, it later became known as Liberty Hall because of the Liberty Hall Grange, named by Millie Kirby Webb.

The community, while never large, once hosted a school, grange, blacksmith shop, grocery store, and gas station. Now all that remains is the 2nd schoolhouse built in 1924, which later housed the grange and now a Masonic Lodge. People started settling in the Liberty Hall area in the mid 1870s.

Photo is of an advertising piece from Millers Service station that was once located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Hwy 66 and Weld County road 5. Date unknown but probably from sometime in the late 1940s.

By the mid 1890s, there were enough people living in the area, that Lewis Rinn moved his store from Highlandlake. He later moved yet again several miles southeast and established the Rinn community. He died in 1908.

Today, all that is left of a once thriving community is the Liberty Hall schoolhouse, now owned by a masonic order, and a few homes.

If anyone has some interior photos of the 2nd Liberty Hall school built in 1924, please consider sharing them with us. You can contact us here. 

Donate your documents, emphemera, or items, for our archives. Photo is Jesse and Lucy Evan wedding photo.

Pleasant Hill School

The first school in Liberty Hall, It was located on the south side and west of the intersection of CR 5 and Hwy 66, just west of where the oil well is now located.

 

There were two rooms, one for the lower grades and the other for upper grades. Grades 1 through 8 were taught here. It closed and was torn down in 1924 after the new school was built. The new school building is still standing (see the photo at the top of this page) and is now a fraternity Hall.

 

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Interior view of the PLeasant Hill school. There are neat rows of school desks and at the front, a large desk for the teacher. Seventeen pictures from about 1900 are hung on the walls above the blackboards.

Interior of the first Pleasant Hill School

Interior view circa 1900.


Look at all the books on the teacher's desk, as well as all the pictures on the wall.

The blackboards are imported slate from back east. 

The writing on the blackboard appears to be lessons and include, literature, arithmetic, Latin, geometry, anatomy, grammar, and biology. 

 

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Liberty Hall highline beetdump. In the photo you can see rows of horse pulled wagons lined up ready to go up the ramp and on the east side a train car already filled with beets.

Liberty Hall Highline Beet Dump

Taken about 1916

The Liberty Hall beet dump was located along the west side of the railroad tracks north of Hwy 66, where the fertilizer plant is now. 

In the photo you can see rows of horse pulled wagons lined up ready to go up the ramp and on the east side a train car already filled with beets. 


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