Editing Elizabeth, Colorado (section)

==History==
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Elizabeth was originally a saw mill camp.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.townofelizabeth.org/history.html |title=History |website=Town of Elizabeth |language=en |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627034402/http://www.townofelizabeth.org/history.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The town was later named after a family member of [[John Evans (Colorado governor)|John Evans]], a territorial governor.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|year=1954|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=26|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=20}}</ref>

The town has had a post office since 1882<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO |title=Post offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=June 25, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120236/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO |archive-date=March 6, 2016 }}</ref> and was incorporated in October 1890.<ref name=COMun/>

In August 2024, the Elizabeth School District’s School Board removed 19 books from school libraries because they included what the Board deemed to be ‘sensitive’ topics.  Students, parents and authors sued the Elizabeth School District in federal court, and in March 2025 they won a preliminary injunction requiring that all 19 of the removed books be immediately returned to the browsing shelves of school libraries and prohibiting the Elizabeth School Board from removing any other library books due to its disagreement with the content and/or viewpoint of those books.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.aclu-co.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/esd_aclu-co_pi_order.pdf |title=Order in Civil Action No. 1:24-cv-03512-CNS-STV |date=March 19, 2025 |access-date=March 20, 2025 |first=Charlotte |last=Sweeney |publisher=US District Court for the District of Colorado}}</ref>