Greeley’s first “Potato Bake” was celebrated in October 1894, and the Greeley Tribune reported that nearly 10,000 people came from as far away as Laramie and Denver. Potato growing had become the leading industry of the district. W. R. McClellan, in his 1917 essay...
The Cornish railroad station was established in 1910 along the Pleasant Valley Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, named after a civil engineer for the railroad. Though a town plat was filed in 1911, development of Cornish didn’t get started until the first business, Miller Mercantile Co., opened in 1913.