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Historic Preservation Forms and Documents.Historic Preservation Advisory Board Projects & County History.Retail Food: Restaurants, Mobile Units & Grocery Stores.Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems (Septic).Emergency Preparedness Response Resources.All State & County Elected Officials Contact Information.Originally published in the June 2015 issue of Wild West. The townsite, accessible year-round by passenger car, stands just north of the highway about 4 miles east of Manzanola and 5 miles west of Rocky Ford. To reach Vroman from Pueblo, drive east on U.S. In 2005 a fre gutted the Vroman School building, leaving just a partial framework. Today the largest town within a 50-mile radius of the Vroman townsite is Pueblo (pop. Rocky Ford and Manzanola managed to survive hard times. The post office closed in 1954, and the school followed in 1971, its students shifting over to the public schools in Rocky Ford. The Denver architectural firm of Mountjoy, French & Frewen designed the two-story brick building in Mediterranean Revival style.Īt its 1930 peak Vroman had a population of 605, but the Great Depression fnancially devastated the area, and the town spiraled into decline.

Vroman is buried alongside family members in the Manzanola Mountain View Cemetery.įollowing the closure of two previous schools, Vroman School-offering classes through eighth grade for the sugar beet farmers’ children-opened its doors in 1918.

During World War I, due to anti-German sentiment, town officials dropped the name Weitzer in favor of Vroman (Dutch in origin), after businessman and eventual Otero County commissioner John C.

(Weitzer’s population is unrecorded.) The crop from these towns helped Colorado remain the nation’s leading beet sugar–producing

By the time Weitzer got its post office, Rocky Ford’s population was approaching 3,000, and Manzanola’s stood at around 400. As farming and ranching flourished, Weitzer and surrounding towns grew. Weitzer served mainly as a beet dump (or drop point for beet shipments) for American Beet Sugar. The post office, which doubled as a general store, opened in 1908, and a blacksmith started up beside the railroad station. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, which had run trains through the area since 1876, helped the fledgling town develop. Weitzer had managed a sugar beet factory in Norfolk, Neb., and by 1901 was managing the newly opened American Beet Sugar Co. Its namesake, Frederick Weitzer, was an American of German descent who lived in Rocky Ford with his family. The settlement sprang up around a railroad siding bearing the name Weitzer. Established on Colorado’s southeastern plain around 1891, this Otero County ghost town stands between the small towns of Rocky Ford and Manzanola.