1872 - Masontown established
1873 - Henry Recen builds first cabin
1879 - Frisco City founded
1879 - First Post Office opens
1879 - A. Ballif Blacksmith & Wheelwright
1879 - Leyner House Hotel opens
1879 - Loveland Pass opens
1880 - Town of Frisco incorporated
1881 - Original town site laid out
1882 - Public school started in Frisco
1882 - DSP&P and D&RG trains arrive
1882 - Wildhack opens Assayer Office
1883 - Town of Dillon Incorporated
1885 - Frisco Lodge opens
1887 - Thomas homesteads Bill's Ranch
1892 - Town of Dillon relocated (DSP&P)
1893 - William & Rena Staley arrive
1898 - Electricity & phone service
1899 - First school location identified
1900 - Town Hall built at 300 Main Street
1900 - Swanson Saloon built
1901 - School board buys Swanson Saloon
1902 - Frisco Schoolhouse opens
1908 - October: William Staley dies
1909 - Staley-Rouse house completed
1910 - Peter Prestrud moves to Frisco
1910 - Prestrud builds ski jump (Excelsior)
1910 - Bill's Ranch deed to Jane Thomas
1911 - D&RG ends service
1911 - School bell tower from Breckenridge
1912 - Avalanche destroys Masontown
1913 - Electricity cut off
1918 - Lake Hill Ski Jump built
1919 - World record ski jump: Haugen
1920 - World record ski jump #2: Haugen
1926 - Avalanche at Masontown
1929 - Frisco Hotel moved to Bill's Ranch
1930 - Population low at 18 people
1931 - Dexheimer cabin - 1st in Bill's Ranch
1934 - Bill's Lake built
1937 - C&S ends service (DSP&P)
1940 - School closed: consolidated w Dillon
1941 - Electricity restored
1946 - Foote family arrives in Frisco
1947 - Frisco Schoolhouse reopened
1950 - Loveland Pass (US6) paved
1955 - Indoor plumbing
1961 - Dillon Dam construction begins
1961 - Frisco Schoolhouse closed
1961 - Andersons purchase Frisco Lodge
1965 - Frisco Lodge adds North Lodge
1966 - Sky Vue Motel built (305 2nd Ave)
1968 - The Log Cabin: Restaurant
1974 - Frisco paves side streets
1976 - Peter Prestrud passes away
1977 - Safeway opened
1982 - Frisco Town Hall built
1983 - Schoolhouse opens as Museum
1987 - Frisco Drug closes (July 4)
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