loveland history

Loveland’s Historic Mariano Medina Family Cemetery [Picutes]
Loveland’s Historic Mariano Medina Family Cemetery [Picutes]
Loveland’s Historic Mariano Medina Family Cemetery [Picutes]
Mariano Medina was a fur trader, a guide, a horse/pony trader and businessman in the Big Thompson Valley/Loveland area in the mid-late 1800s. He helped Loveland become a community with his toll bridge that took travelers over the Big Thompson River. He was a short-statured man, with big charisma.