Barnesville

Barnesville, Colorado was a small, unincorporated town in Weld County, established in 1910

History

Barnesville, Colorado was a small, unincorporated town in Weld County, established in 1910 by Charles E. Barnes, and located on the Crow Creek Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad. It operated as a post office from 1910 to 1935, serving a population of about 200 people. The town was also a beet dump site for the Greeley sugar factory between 1909 and 1965. The actual townsite was vacated in 1955, and the railroad station closed in 1965 when the line was abandoned.

Geography

Barnesville was located at 40.48015, -104.47941. Other than a house or two that may have been built long after the original Barnesville went away, there is not much to see.

Comment

If you fif not have this on a map, you would simply pass by a couple houses at the tintesection of two county roads in Weld County