BROOMFIELD: A History in Brief
By IntraDenver staff writer

Once upon a time there was broomcorn as far as the eye could see. But then broomcorn became suburbia and the town of Broomfield was born. When construction was completed on the Denver-Boulder turnpike in 1952, Broomfield was often thought of as the tollgate. But a group of Denver businessmen had much bigger plans for the area, and in 1955 they purchased it as a site for a model "bedroom" community. 1950’s suburban planning soon took over the fields of broomcorn and Broomfield’s city limits now extend into Boulder, Jefferson, and Weld counties.

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