Rosedale, Colorado is a former municipality in Weld County

Weld County, Colorado

As of the census of 2000, there were 180,936 people, 63,247 households, and 45,221 families residing in the county. The population density was 45 people per square mile . There were 66,194 housing units at an average density of 17 per square mile...

, Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

, United States

United States

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, now a part of the City of Greeley

Greeley, Colorado

The City of Greeley is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Weld County, Colorado, United States. Greeley is located in the region known as Northern Colorado. Greeley is situated north-northeast of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. According to the...

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Rosedale was founded and incorporated in 1939 to allow the establishment of saloons, bars, and liquor stores to serve the Greeley community; Greeley, established as part of the Union Temperance Colony

Union Colony of Colorado

The Union Colony of Colorado was a 19th century U.S. private enterprise formed to promote agricultural settlement in the South Platte River valley in the Colorado Territory...

, was dry. Located on the south side of Greeley and southwest of Colorado State College of Education (today the University of Northern Colorado

University of Northern Colorado

-Organization:The University of Northern Colorado offers 100 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate programs. The university has a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado...

), the town together with its sister town, Garden City

Garden City, Colorado

The Town of Garden City is a Statutory Town located in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 357 at the 2000 census. With a total are less than one square mile, it is literally surrounded by the cities of Greeley, Colorado and Evans, Colorado....

 provided a watering hole for the teachers-in-training and faculty of the college and the rest of the population of Greeley. Its nickname through the 1970s (Greeley became wet in 1972) was "Boozeville."

Today the name is remembered primarily through the name of its original "family" shopping center

Strip mall

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 on 11th Avenue on the south edge of Greeley and just north of the separate city of Evans

Evans, Colorado

The City of Evans is a Home Rule Municipality located in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 9,514 at the 2000 census, and estimated at 18,842 as of July 1, 2008, by the Census Bureau...

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