Volume 8 , Issue 40

Bayfield, Colorado Legacy

The following information came from the book Pioneers of the San Juan Country, by Sarah Platt Kecker Chapter NSDAR, pages 66-67. ~~ Bayfield (Colorado) was homesteaded by George Morrison and later sold to R. C. and Clarence Hensley. In 1894, Bayfield was sold to W. A. and Laura E. Bay, for whom the town was named. Bay left Missouri in 1890 to look for a good location in the west. He found it on the Pine River and homesteaded his ranch and farm. The town was laid out in 1898 on land once owned by Bay family ranchers. The flour mill was on the south side of Main Street, owned by H. c. Schroeder, who also had a general store and had the first threshing machine in the area. The town was incorporated in 1906 with George Wheeler as the first mayor. The first newspaper was the Bayfield Blade, published by Dan Eggar. The first white settler is said to have been a Mr. Been and an irrigation ditch has been named for him.
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