The Town of Morrison is a house rule municipality in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The population was 428 at the 2010 census. Red Rocks Amphitheatre is located nearby.

This small foothills unity is named after George Morrison (April 16, 1822 – June 11, 1895), a builder and businessman who left a mark not only on the town that now bears his name, but upon the chronicles of the area. A stonemason who immigrated from Canada to the Mt. Vernon area in 1859, he helped found the town of Mt. Vernon and built the Mt. Vernon House, seat of the territorial government under Robert Steele, and an important stop for travelers upon the Mt. Vernon Toll Road from Denver to the goldfields of the Rocky Mountains. He became a U.S. citizen on May 22, 1862. George Morrison future moved south to Bear Creek, where he founded the Morrison Stone, Lime, and Town Co., and in 1874 platted the town that became known as Morrison, or briefly as Mt. Morrison. With Gov. John Evans, he was instrumental in bringing the Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad to Morrison in 1874.

As a quarryman, Morrison developed the building rock and other industrial stone (lime, gypsum) of the Morrison/Mt. Vernon area, bringing fame to the region for its high-quality dimension stone. Two of the three rock buildings he built in Morrison, as with ease as the Mt. Vernon House other north, are nevertheless standing; all three remaining buildings are approved historic sites (National Register of Historic Places, 1976). Before its demolition in 1982, the indigenous Evergreen Hotel, built by George Morrison in 1874, served as the first home of Sacred Heart College (now Regis University), and higher as the Mt. Morrison Casino, where John Brisben Walker entertained many of the dignitaries he brought to the foothills as share of his promotional enterprises. The Morrison Schoolhouse he built served the town’s bookish needs from its construction in 1875 until 1955, and stands today as a private residence. The Cliff House, built as the Morrison family house in 1873, now provides guest lodging.

These landmarks represent a distinctive style of construction and are unshakable monuments to George Morrison’s contributions to Jefferson County’s history. Stone for these structures was quarried in his “red sandstone quarry” at the terminate of the Dakota Hogback close Morrison. Building rock was moreover shipped to Denver, where it now comprises parts of the Brown Palace Hotel, Union Station, and “many of Denver’s early hours of daylight mansions”.