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| Northern Colorado History
Albert Sherwood had just gotten off work at the Tedmon Hotel where he was a dishwasher. It was Christmas Eve, 1881, and he had a mind to blow off a little steam. He crossed the train tracks along Mason street, walked through Washington Park (which was really just an empty field), and alighted upon the residence of Lizzie Palmer, a fellow African-American in an otherwise very White Fort Collins. Liz ran a pleasure house on N. Meldrum street on a lot that also supported a small chicken farm. (O...| Northern Colorado History