A history of Eaton,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Eaton from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town is named for Benjamin H. Eaton and Aaron J. Eaton, of the Eaton Milling and Elevator Company, pioneers of irrigation who played a leading role in transforming the arid prairie of the Great Plains east of Colorado's Front Range into a thriving agricultural region with water brought from the nearby Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century. The Eatonton, Colorado, post office opened on September 25, 1882, but the name was shortened to Eaton a year later on September 28, 1883. Eaton was first named Eatonton to avoid conflict with the Easton post office in El Paso county. When Easton had changed its name to Eastonville, the last syllable of Eatonton was dropped, and the town has since been known as Eaton.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Eaton’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewJames Leroy Stockton (The Chautau…, 1906: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Eaton
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Eaton, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as James Leroy Stockton (The Chautauquan, 1906) (1906) and it appears here side by side.
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National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (1), the Library of Congress (4) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.