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Metadata
Object ID |
0234 |
Title |
Scrapbook - Golden and Colorado history |
Accession number |
0234 |
Object Name |
Scrapbook |
Scope & Content |
Scrapbook: "Colo" handwritten on label center front, black cover, "Scrap Book" in gold lettering on front cover, sheaf of pages and cover bound with cord. Contains a typed index of names of people mentioned in newspaper clippings in scrapbook, Golden and Colorado history. At top of the index page is "Irene Goetz Scrapbook / Property of Golden Pioneer Museum DAR." Highlights of contents include: * Articles about Mount Vernon Canyon, Mount Vernon Road, and Mount Vernon House * Articles about Golden as Territorial Capital * An obituary and remembrance of Nicholas Koenig * A lengthy article profiling Carlos W. Lake * Several articles recounting the celebrations honoring Golden's 77th birthday in 1936 * An account of the unveiling ceremony for a monument dedicating Arapahoe City site, including a photo of the only two surviving 1859 pioneers Mrs. Amanda Crawford and Mrs. Laura Parshall, who unveiled the plaque * A lengthy obituary of Golden resident A.D. Jameson, Civil War veteran and county Judge in Jefferson County, as well as one of the original members of T.H. Dodd Post No. 3, Grand Army of the Republic. * An obituary of Golden resident Ida Johnson Hoyt * An article about the 94th birthday of Golden pioneer Andrew Bacon * A profile of George M. Pullman and the Pullman Homestead in Golden, where, according to the article, Pullman "planned the comfortable sleeping car." |
People |
Goetze (Gay), Irene Hoyt (Johnson), Ida R. Jameson, Alexander D. Koenig, Nicholas Lake, Carlos Pullman, George M. |
Search Terms |
Arapahoe City Golden as Territorial Capital (1862-1867) Grand Army of the Republic T. H. Dodd Post No. 3 Mount Vernon Canyon Mount Vernon House Pullman Homestead Red Rocks |