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Platting Robb Colorado -- Colorado Immigration & Townsite Company
Unrecorded broadside promoting the newly platted town of Robb, in Yuma County, Colorado.
Existing from about 1890 to the 1930s, the town of Robb was apparently first being promoted for settlement in 1890, likely by speculators in the county seat of Yuma, Colorado, although the broadside notes offices in Akron, Yuma and Robb, Colorado. The Yuma County archives holds a number of photos of families who lived in Robb, but we find only a single printed document (held by the Yale Beinecke Library) which references the promotion of Robb townsite, also published by the Colorado Immigration & Townsite Company.
Robb, Colorado
The town of Robb existed very briefly, complete with its own Post Office. According to the online source A Gazetteer for the Yuma County Historical Map, Robb Colorado was:
[a] siding on the railroad between Wray and Eckley, established in 1882. The Robb post office operated from 1889 to 1893 and again for a brief time in 1920. The Robb townsite was platted in 1890 and homes and businesses existed there until the 1930s. Starting in the 1880s, the Robb siding was a major cattle shipping point for sandhill ranches including the Bowles Ranch.
According to the broadside held by Yale,
[The promoters] offer a free lot to anyone willing to assist in distributing advertising and participate in company-sponsored excursions for prospective settlers. An additional bonus of a lot on Main Street valued at $200 will be given to anyone who within 30 days recruits “10 ... men to each make application for a nice business lot ... The 30 day clause is placed in deed to keep dead heads from acquiring our property ...”
Rarity
The map is unrecorded.
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