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Atwood (Colo.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Atwood, Colorado, between 1975-2014

 File
Identifier: B114.02.0001.0004
Abstract

Poor Russian Jewish immigrants established the Atwood Colony in 1896 when B'nai B'rith and investment companies encouraged 75 adults and six children to settle in Atwood by offering farm land, seed, water rights, houses, implements, and cattle. The barren colony, lacking promised assistance, was near starvation and failed. By 1899, only a few Jewish families remained.

Dates: between 1975-2014

Handleman and Jacobs Scrapbook--Atwood, Colorado, c.1867-c.1970

 File
Identifier: B114.02.0001.0018
Abstract

This scrapbook contains images of individuals from the Handleman and Jacobs families. The Handleman family was an instrumental family in the Atwood colony--surviving longer than many who homesteaded the colony. One image in the scrapbook is from the Atwood colony in 1917 (at which point the Handleman family was one of, if not the last, remaining family).

Dates: c.1867-c.1970