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- Image from “History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: Vol. 1” by John Newton Boucher and John Woolf Jordan, copyright 1906
General William Larimer Jr., left his home state of Pennsylvania seeking opportunity on the western frontier. He founded La Platte in Nebraska Territory before moving on to Kansas. Eventually, he became the founder of Denver in Colorado.
Image from “History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: Vol. 1” by John Newton Boucher and John Woolf Jordan, copyright 1906
