January 24, 2023
One of the few remaining buildings at the Dearfield Homestead National Historic Park. The site was once the largest African-American homesteading settlement in Colorado before being devastated by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. (Photo/Creative Commons, Husvedt)
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Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper introduced the Dearfield Study Act, legislation that would direct the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the Dearfield Homestead in Weld County to determine its suitability as a unit of the National Park system.