Greeley to hold ribbon-cutting ceremony for POW camp pillars

GREELEY – The Greeley Historic Preservation Commission will host a
ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, July 25, at 6 p.m. to commemorate the
preservation of POW Camp 202 Pillars.

The pillars once marked the entrance to POW Camp 202 west of Greeley
during World War II, and were placed on Colorado’s Endangered Places
list in 2005 because of the U.S. Highway 34 widening project.

During the project, the Colorado Department of Transportation removed
the pillars and reinstalled them in the roadside pull-off on the north
side of the Highway 34 Business Loop at the 257 Spur northeast of
Promontory. Interpretive panels providing information about the pillars
have also been installed.

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Representatives from the City of Greeley, CDOT, Colorado Preservation
Inc., Daughters of the American Revolution, Historic Greeley Inc., and
the State Historic Preservation Office will be present at the event on
the site of the reinstalled pillars. It is free and open to the public.