Not long after they got married in the early 1990s, Sharon Kelly-North and her new husband, David North, were invited to Sharon s grandmother s tidy brick home in Seattle.
Mattie Lyle was almost in her 90s by then and likely inspired by a photo slideshow the newlyweds had recently put together she enlisted them to help her go through a hat box filled with old photographs of her own.
After being a hobbyist photographer for most of her life, Mattie had stacks of old snapshots to sort through black-and-white remnants of a life well-lived.
Somewhere in the box, there was a photo that showed Mattie and her late husband, William Lyle, in the 1930s or 1940s back when they lived in Fort Collins, Colorado gathered with friends during a visit to Denver.
Did You Know That Money Was Once Printed in Fort Collins
Usually, when it comes to coins and cash in Colorado, you think about the Denver Mint. However, back in the day money also used to be printed in Fort Collins.
While I was browsing around on eBay, I came across a $5 bill that was printed by the Fort Collins National Bank in 1902.
Credit: eBay
According to AntiqueMoney.com, this bill was produced by the Poudre Valley National Bank of Fort Collins in 1902. 34,670 sheets of the blue seal $5 banknotes were produced. According to its eBay listing, the specific version of this bill is known as a plain back with no date range, though it s likely it was printed between 1902 to 1908.