Hi Scott,
I was unable to find information for a Streator - but did find it under
Streater. It's not much. The Denver Public Library has this list of all
cities that used to exist for a number of counties. This is the listing they
have for Streater:
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Streater (Mosca) Costilla/Alamosa
Post Office 1888-1890. Changed to Mosca. 1 mi N & 0.5 mi W of present Mosca.
Settlement. 12, 14
The 12 and 14 are references:
12. Colorados Post Offices 1859-1989 by William H. Bauer, James L. Ozment
and John
H. Willard, 1990
This publication is a comprehensive listing of Post Offices, Stations and
Branches in Colorado. It includes the sequence of counties from early county
structure to present day location. As well as the inclusive dates the post
office existed for specified sites, it lists name changes and where post
offices moved from and to in the time periods before and after its tenure at
a specific site.
14. Colorado Place Names by Arvid D. Blecha, 1987 (Manuscript)
This Blecha compilation is the most complete place name works that exists
for Colorado. The problem with the Blecha compilation is that it only exists
in one public institution available to researchers, the Western History
Department, Denver Public Library. A First Search of the Worldwide Catalog
revealed no other institution where this manuscript could be found. This
manuscript contains a chronological history of the counties of Colorado. It
refers to many early maps and publications as a source for information
contained in the manuscript. Note: At the time of publication, the Arvid D.
Blecha Manuscript was used. This has now been published as Blecha's Colorado
Place Names.
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Now, I read somewhere that city was renamed Mosca because of a nearby pass.
My next guess would be to see if there was a large landholder in that area
that may have been named Streater. Maybe they moved on and residents felt a
name change was in order?
Good Luck,
Kristina Corey Fuiks
kcfuiks(a)hotmail.com
Volunteer Coordinator, Otero County Colorado, COGenWeb Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cootero/
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the world." -President Josiah Bartlet, The West Wing
From: Scott Scheibe <dsscheibe(a)earthlink.net>
Reply-To: cogen(a)rootsweb.com
To: cogen(a)rootsweb.com
CC: San Luis Valley CO Genealogy <coalamos(a)rootsweb.com>
Subject: [COGEN] Fwd: Towns of Costilla County, Colorado
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:53:33 -0700
Anyone have any knowledge about this, I don't.
>From: "Norm Onnen" <onnenne(a)kc.rr.com>
>To: <dsscheibe(a)earthlink.net>
>Subject: Towns of Costilla County, Colorado
>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:53:46 -0500
>
>Good evening. I was doing some unrelated research on Alamosa and Mosca,
>Colorado and came across reference to Mosca previously (1888-1890) being
>known as Streator.
>
>While I no longer live there, I was born and raised in Streator,
Illinois.
>This town was incorporated in 1868 and named after industrialist Dr.
>Worthy L. Streator. (It had been previously named Unionville and
>Hardscrabble).
>
>As the spellings are identical, it seems possible that the two
communities
>might have been named after the same individual. Do you have any
>information/insight as to the origin of the name Streator, Colorado?
>
>Thanks,
>Norman Onnen
> onnenne(a)kc.rr.com
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