Niwot, Colorado: The Rest of the Story

The Village of Niwot prospered and came to include the Niwot State Bank, the Livingston Hotel, the Hogsett Lumber Company, and numerous other establishments that served local farmers. Niwot's "Left Hand Grange" was founded in 1873 and survives to this day as the second-oldest continuously operating grange in the state of Colorado. However, with the arrival of the automobile, Niwot's merchants found themselves unable to compete with those in Boulder and Longmont and gradually faded away.

Present day Niwot still has its own post office, and much more: the town has grown since the arrival of an IBM plant in 1965, and local farmland is quickly being turned into subdivisions (ah, progress).