https://insideerie.com/ An independent guide to Erie, Colorado: Briggs Street, the trails, the coal-town history, and what it’s like to move to a town that doubled. en-us Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://insideerie.com/articles/erie-history/ https://insideerie.com/articles/erie-history/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT A homestead named for a Pennsylvania hometown, a railroad spur, eighty years of underground coal, a schoolhouse that became Town Hall, and a farm town that grew by two-thirds in a decade. The short history of Erie, with each claim resting on a source. History