Lafayette – In 1863, newlyweds Lafayette and Mary Miller joined an ox-team wagon train of fifty wagons and made their way across this country's vast heartland. After months of hard travel, the couple initially settled in Burlington, which later became Longmont. They left soon after to operate a stage stop along the Overland Trail between Denver and Cheyenne at the present site of the Coal Creek Farm. The couple moved to the Lafayette area in 1871 and began farming on land they acquired through the Homestead Act. Lafayette Miller died suddenly and left Mary widowed with six small children, Mary Miller moved back to the farm and managed it alone.

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