Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2019.066.001 |
Title |
Historically Jeffco: Historical Tourism in Jefferson County |
Accession number |
2019.066 |
Object Name |
Magazine |
Creator |
Jefferson County Historical Commission |
Scope & Content |
One of two Historically Jeffco magazines, Issue 40, 2019, focusing on "Historical Tourism in Jefferson County." Subjects include a discussion of early tourism in Jefferson County by rail and automobile; the organization of the Golden Chautaugua in 1919 and it's development over it's four-year existence (1919-1922); a narrative history of Golden's Holland House, founded in 1946 and closed in 1982; a history of the Mother Cabrini Shrine; information and history of the town of Apex, a Gold Rush town just south of Golden; an account of an incident of ball lightening seen over Golden in 1894; a profile of Ella Deaver Wise, who, in 1894, was the first woman in Jefferson County elected to public office; an account of the collapse of the Golden Post Office in 1969; and an account of the wartime death of Golden resident David Henry Helps, Jr. who was shot down two days after the D-Day invasion at Normandy in 1944. |
Physical characteristics |
Staplebound at spine. Glossy cardstock cover with a c. 1907 photo of three fishermen fishing in Evergreen's Bear Creek |
People |
Holland (Watson), Ethel E. Holland, Marion Luther Wise (Deaver), Ella |
Search Terms |
Apex/Apex Gulch Colorado & Southern Railroad Colorado Central Railroad Golden Post Office Holland House Lariat Loop Mother Cabrini Shrine |