Longmont’s Baker Street property has storied past, neighbors want say in future (7/13/15)

The house was built in the late 1890s for Lewis H. Dickson and his wife Emily. Dickson participated in the Sand Creek massacre of 1864, was elected to the Colorado legislature in 1880 and elected as Longmont’s first mayor in 1881, later serving as the nascent town’s police magistrate and justice of the peace.

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