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Weld County was thrust into the media spotlight on the evening of November 1, 1955, when United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B airliner flying from Denver to Portland, Oregon, exploded in midair and crashed, killing all 44 persons on board the plane and scattering bodies, wreckage and debris over a six-square-mile area of the county.
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By 2009, the number of wells had fallen to about 200 ; but new discoveries in Weld County, Colorado have prompted interest in exploring the Niobrara shale, which lies beneath western Nebraska, northeastern Colorado, and southeastern Wyoming.
Weld County is the third most extensive and the ninth most populous of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States.
The United States Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) has designated Weld County as the Greeley, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area, a component of the Denver-Aurora-Boulder, CO Combined Statistical Area.
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Nebraska Territory and the Kansas Territory, divided by the Parallel 40 ° North ( Baseline Road or County Line Road or Weld County Road 2 in the future Weld County ).
Present-day Weld County, Colorado, lay in the southwestern portion of the Nebraska Territory, bordering the Kansas Territory.
Weld County Courthouse in Greeley, Colorado | Greeley.
St. Vrain County encompassed much of what is today Weld County.
On November 1, 1861, the Colorado General Assembly organized 17 counties, including Weld County, for the new Colorado Territory.
Weld County was named for Lewis Ledyard Weld, a lawyer and territorial secretary.
Until February 9, 1887, Weld County's boundaries included the area now comprising Weld County, Washington County, Logan County, Morgan County, Yuma County, Phillips County, and Sedgwick County.
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Theodore Dwight Weld ( 1803-1895 ) was especially active.
Weld was the son and grandson of New England Congregational ministers.
The film, starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld, about a Tennessee sheriff who falls in love with a moonshiner's daughter, was set to songs by Johnny Cash.
Ransohoff and Peckinpah agreed that Tate's timidity and lack of experience would cause her to flounder in such a large part, and she was rejected in favor of Tuesday Weld.
Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld ( by whom he had a son, Patrick, in 1976 ), Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild ( one son, Nicholas, born in 1995 ).
This was built on the site of Weld Chapel, which was demolished in 1861.
In northeastern Weld County, Minuteman III missile silo " N-8 ", one of the many unmanned silos there, was the target of symbolic vandalism by Catholic peace activists in 2002.
The Greeley Council was founded in 1916, and in 1924 changed its name to the Weld and Morgan Counties Council.
It was not until Frederick Weld, the sixth person appointed to formal leadership, that a substantive leadership title – Premier – appeared.
* Theodore Dwight Weld ( 1803 – 1895 ), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, an evangelical abolitionist who was born in town, where he lived until 1825 when his family moved to upstate New York.
Goddard, along with Benjamin D. Weld who was to give some assistance to Goddard, were to come together to Sebewa.
However, Weld was not ready to move and both families remained in Lenawee.
A post office named " Sebewa " was established on January 24, 1851, with Benjamin Weld as the first postmaster.
Gainesboro was the shooting location of John Frankenheimer's 1970 film I Walk the Line starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld.
One of these 1899 Wintons was purchased by Larz Anderson and his new wife, Isabel Weld Perkins.
A new waterfront was created at Weld Quay, where commercial buildings sprang up.
Maria was left effectively destitute, had little or no financial support from the Weld family and was obliged to remarry as soon as she could.
In 1870 the last British troops were withdrawn from New Zealand ; this was in line with both the " self-reliance " policy of Premier Frederick Weld and the Cardwell reforms of the Army in Britain.
Anderson House was built between 1902 and 1905 as the winter residence of Larz Anderson, an American diplomat, and his wife, Isabel Weld Perkins, an author and American Red Cross volunteer.
At the time of the badge's adoption, the colonial Governor, Frederick Weld, wrote that " This Colony at its commencement was usually known as the Swan River Settlement, and the Black Swan is represented upon its seal, and has always been considered as its special badge, or cognizance.
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* Windsor ( town, historically in Weld County, but expanded into Larimer County in the 1990s ).
Over the next three decades, the city grew through annexations, many of which crossed the county line into three adjacent counties: Adams, Jefferson and Weld.
Weld established the Interlaken Land Company in 1890 to turn his farm into a residential community with avenues named after English lakes and cross streets named after the islands in the Hebrides in the Irish Sea.
In 1996, Governor William Weld plunged, fully clothed, into the river to prove his commitment to cleaning up the river.
Angelina was named for her father's aunt Angelina Grimké Weld, who with her sister Sarah Grimké had brought him and his brothers into her family after learning about him.
David Weld, the executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation, generically opined that " I personally just don't think that has any merit " yet refused to be specific or comment on the number of birds that come into contact with the island and fly back and forth between the mainland, possibly carrying infected ticks.
It flows eastward, south of Loveland across the plains into Weld County and joins the South Platte approximately 5 mi ( 8 km ) south of Greeley.
The Butcher lures the pair and two police officers, including the " by-the-book " Tracey Weld, into a trap.
The original preparatory school to Stonyhurst, Hodder Place, came into the hands of the Jesuits as part of the estate donated by alumnus Thomas Weld.
The novel was made into a television movie in the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1983, starring Donald Sutherland, Teri Garr, and Tuesday Weld.
In 1838, her sister Angelina married the leading abolitionist Theodore Weld, who had been a severe critic of their inclusion of women's rights into the movement for abolition.
Eaton expanded his operations from farming into contracting, specializing in the building of irrigation canals and reservoirs, a business he heavily promoted as a means of bringing growth and wealth to Larimer and Weld Counties.
In 1795, Isaac Weld observed that most of these British merchants spoke French, but few of their French counterparts spoke English, showing signs that the French Canadians were retreating into their own culture.
The book was made into a 1980 movie called Serial, starring Tuesday Weld and Martin Mull.
On the same day the spending cap was agreed upon, Governor Weld jumped into the Charles River after signing a bill and spoke at the 1996 Republican National Convention on August 14 before debating U. S. Senator Kerry again on August 19.
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