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A social and charitable organization founded in part by Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel newspaper.
According to Grand Junction Lions Club founder Silmon Smith, the Rotary Club came into existence when the original Grand Junction Lions Club folded in 1922, with some Lions members joining the Rotary.
According to William "Bill" Rump, whose father Charles Rump was a charter member, the Grand Junction Rotary was an early proponent...
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A streetcar system that was separate from the Interurban, and that ran within the city of Grand Junction. Its tracks made a figure eight formation through town, running from 2nd to 12th Street, and from South Avenue to Gunnison Avenue.
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The Town Company governed and funded the creation and construction of Grand Junction and its government prior to the town's incorporation. According to the Grand Junction News, the Town Company filed articles of incorporation sometime in December 1882. Its organizer was George Crawford, who had the Town Company offices and the first town hall built at the corner of 7th and Main Streets (an adobe building on the site of what is now the Avalon Theater)....
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While it is not known what became of Grand Junction’s first attempt to organize a public library (a meeting of the Grand Junction Library Association in January 1883), we do know that an effort in 1897 was successful. When Grand Junction was sixteen years old, members of two women’s clubs united as the Woman’s Library Association. The goal of the association was to establish a free public library. The first step toward this goal was taken in...
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A Republican Party affiliated newspaper and Grand Junction's first newspaper. It was established in 1882 by owner and publisher Edwin Price, who hired Darwin P. Kingsley as editor in 1882. Kingsley later became the president of the New York Life Insurance Company. Price published the paper into the early Twentieth century, when he was joined by a partner named Newton. Charlie Adams ultimately purchased the paper and sold it to The Daily Sentinel in...
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The building complex, which originally housed the Teller Institute, a boarding school for American Indians, was built in 1885. In 1921, ten years after the closure of the Teller Institute, the buildings housed what was known as the State Home for Mental Defectives. The name was changed to the State Home and Training School and then the Grand Junction Regional Center in the 1970s.
In its early days, the State Home was led by a Dr. Jefferson (according...
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A local chapter of the international organization created by attorney Silmon Smith, M.N. Due, Bob Ross, and man named Jones in 1921. According to Lion Laird Smith, the club briefly disbanded when Walter Walker brought the Rotary Club to town. In 1922, the Grand Junction Lions Club reformed with Silmon Smith as president (Laird's father). According to Silmon Smith, because he and others had not been offered membership in the Rotary Club, he and other...
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An organization that advocates for Grand Junction businesses and for the business climate in town. It has its roots in the early Twentieth century. It operates today at 360 Grand Avenue, in a building that opened in 1982.
According to Penelope (Brown) Eberhart, whose father Harry Lewis Brown was involved in the Western Slope's early oil shale industry, the Chamber had an ongoing interest in the industry's success.
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Grand Junction's first radio station, begun by Rex Howell in 1930 as KFXJ. It carried live acts, music, and news gathered from wire services like Trans-Radio Press. Dr. O.M. Morrison, a local dentist, stepped in with funds for Howell when the station faced financial problems during the Great Depression.
In 1940, after securing broadcast through new telephone lines wired by the Mountain Telephone and Telegraph Company, the station joined the...
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Faquawah was a group of Grand Junction, Colorado business men who enjoyed camping in Southeastern Utah, near Canyonlands and Lake Powell. They traveled by automobile and spent a week camping. Membership required a ritual. According to member Al Look, the word Faquawah is derived from two Native American words (he does not specify from which Native American language the words come, and he may be speaking tongue in cheek). “Fa” means “three sleeps”...
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A car dealership in Grand Junction during the 1920's.
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A district that began in 1883, shortly after the formation of Mesa County from territory that had previously belonged to Gunnison County. Previous to the official creation of the district, the first school board was elected on June 1, 1882, before the Grand Junction City Government had even been elected. Harrison Edward Stroud, W.M. McKelvey, and O.D. Russell were members of the first board. Stroud served as the superintendent of schools (1881).
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An organization founded in 1895. It was a predecessor to The Twentieth Century Club and other women’s organizations. Among its accomplishments, the club organized a small subscription library in a building on Main Street where the Avalon Theater now stands. The library was established entirely with donated books. At first, the library was open only to members of the Women’s Club, but then was opened to for the use of anyone in the public “whose...
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A laundromat, reportedly one of a chain, with a location in Grand Junction in the early Twentieth century and perhaps earlier. The laundromat was operating by at least 1902, when the Grand Junction City Directory lists it as the Excelsior Steam Laundry at 618 Main Street. An advertisement for the laundrymat shows the owner to be Frank Buehring at that time. According to Dudly Mitchell, the Excelsior was later owned by George Day. The Excelsior remained...
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According to oral history interviewee Nellie (Edwards) Robbins, the Grand Junction branch of the Salvation Army was founded in 1908, and took up headquarters at 3rd Street and Colorado Avenue. The organization undertakes various fundraising efforts, such as bell ringing, in order to assist the needy. In the early Twentieth century, it also ministered to the poor with religious services, and held an "Open Air Meeting" in the downtown area on Saturday...
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A mortuary founded by Fred C. Martin and his wife in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1917. According to oral history interviewee Ann (Reese) Stokes, Martin and his family lived in Palisade, Colorado shortly before coming to Grand Junction. In Palisade, they owned an undertaker business. They moved to Grand Junction and established Martin Mortuary shortly after.
F.C. Martin passed ownership of the mortuary to his son Edward Martin and his wife, Helen...
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A bank in the town of Grand Junction, Colorado. According to William McHurg Ela, whose father and grandfather Wendell Dennett Ela and Wendell Phillips Ela worked for the bank for many years in the early Twentieth century (as vice president and president, respectfully), the bank was founded by Orson Adams. E.D. Blodgett took over as the owner of the bank of Grand Junction after Orson Adams was arrested for embezzlement. A.A. Milne was also an employee...
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A local chapter, founded in 1955, of the national, Red-Cross affiliated organization. The Gray Ladies were a body of specialized volunteers for service at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction. Starting with a group of 16, they grew to include 64 active members, as of 1983. Their original tasks were to staff the information desk in the hospital lobby, aid patients, and perform other non-nursing services. They arranged flowers, delivered mail, provided...
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The Handy Chapel housed a congregation affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church when it was built in 1892. The Grand Junction Town Company formed in September 1881, shortly after the forced relocation of the Ute Indian population. As part of its platting of the city, the Town Company offered free land, on the Northeast corner of the blocks between 3rd and 7th Streets on White Avenue, to religious organizations wanting to construct churches.
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