 Moore held on to his claim in Livermore until 1871 when he sold it to Russell Fisk.Fisk came to the area in 1871, now called Livermore for the names of its earliest permanent settlers, Livernash and Moore, built the first hotel and platted a town on the west bank of the North Fork of the Cache la Poudre River about two miles west of the current intersection of Hwy 287 and Red Feather Lakes Road.Even though there was a town site that was to be called Livermore, the name 'Livermore' was applied to a much larger area loosely bounded by the Cache la Poudre River to the south, the mountains to the west, the Colorado-Wyoming state line to the north, and the red mesas to the east.