 In 1872, after the Beckwith brothers had moved to Longmont, Elmer Beckwith started publishing the "Longmont Sentinel".The newspaper changed its name to "Colorado Press", then "Longmont Press".On September 8, 1879, a day after the building with the "Longmont Press" had burned, Charles Boyton and J.J. Jilson printed the first "Longmont Ledger".