Founding of Meeker

Meeker began as a sale. The Army abandoned its Camp on White River in August 1883, and on the 13th the post's buildings went at auction: log officers' quarters for about $100 each, adobe barracks for $50, cheap because the Army owned the walls and not the ground under them. Newton Major moved a store's stock into one barracks, and one officers' house is now the White River Museum. Mrs. S. C. Wright, the only woman among the nineteen cast names, was called the Mother of Meeker. The bronze's Meeker Massacre is now usually called the Meeker Incident.

What the plaque says

This tablet is the property of the State of Colorado Founding of Meeker Following the Meeker Massacre, Gen. Wesley Merritt established at this site his "Camp on White River," 1879. After withdrawal of the garrison in August, 1883, the town of Meeker was founded by the following pioneers: George S. Allsebrook, Charles S. Attix, Thomas Baker, William H. Clark, John C. Davis, Charles Dunbar, Samuel Fairfield, W. Harry Goff, A.J. Gregory, Henry J. Hay, George S. Hazen, J.W. Hugus, James Kendall, James L. McHatton, Newton Major, Frank E. Sheridan, G. Dana Thayer, Eddie P. Wilber, Mrs. S. C. Wright. Erected by The State Historical Society of Colorado from the William A. Braiden Foundation, and by The Chamber of Commerce and Citizens of Meeker 1949

Where it stands