The Colo Cabin Camp that preceded the Colo Motel began in 1928 with six cabins and grew over the next ten years to a total of twelve cabins. Cabin furnishings included a bed, a table, two wooden chairs, and a single light hanging from the . . . — — Map (db m315903) HM
The Colo Motel included the nearby small building facing south, whose two units used mainly during summer's peak demand, and this building, which was constructed in 1948 and contained five single units. Even after the main motel building was . . . — — Map (db m315895) HM
Throughout most of the 1920s, Charlie Reed allowed travelers to pitch tents on open land at this site. Beginning in 1928, however, that camping space was filled by the Colo Cabin Camp, which was also known by the late 1940s as the Colo Motel, the . . . — — Map (db m315904) HM
At this site in 1917, the Jefferson Highway and Lincoln Highway joined a common roadbed and ran seven miles West to Nevada. On the Northwest corner of the intersection in 1923, farmer Charlie Reed developed a one-stop full service operation for . . . — — Map (db m315978) HM
At this southeast corner of his farm, Charlie Reed in 1923 built his first roadside business, a small gas station. Sometime in the late 1920s this original station was replaced by a larger station, which was moved to its present location in . . . — — Map (db m316070) HM
Since 1926, the highway running north and south past this site has been U.S. 65, but it was first known as the Interstate Trace (1911-1915) and next as the Jefferson Highway (1915-1926). The Jefferson Highway ran from Winnipeg to New Orleans, at . . . — — Map (db m315906) HM
The road running east and west past this site, known today as County Highway E 41, has an illustrious past. First paved in 1929, this segment was part of U.S. 30 from 1926 until 1962, when that highway was re-routed one mile south. It was also . . . — — Map (db m315901) HM
Food service at Reed/Niland Corner began in the mid-1920s with a lunch stand selling sandwiches and cold drinks to motorists during the summer months. Built next to a small gas station located about one hundred yards east of this point, the lunch . . . — — Map (db m316064) HM
In the early days of motoring, two major automobile trails, the Lincoln Highway and the Jefferson Highway (later, U.S. 30 and U.S. 65), crossed at this site, which also happened to be the southeast corner of a farm owned by Colo resident Charlie . . . — — Map (db m315974) HM
In the late 1920s, Charlie Reed built this gas station on the site of a smaller station located about one hundred yards east. The new station was moved to its present site in October, 1930. At first called the Lincoln & Jefferson Service Station, . . . — — Map (db m315984) HM
