Dearfield, Colorado
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African-Americans.
While the idea of an all-black colony or township was certainly not an original
one (according to the Rocky Mountain News, there were several areas of Colorado that
had all-black colonies, such as in and around Rocky Ford, Akron and Cortez ),
Dearfield was by far the only black colony in Colorado to have any sort of longevity.
Founded by Oliver T. Jackson, a former Boulder restaurateur, Dearfield was his
dream of an all-black, agrarian
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