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According to author Ruth Moss, the first marshal of the department was James “Jim” Davis, hired in 1881 or 1882 and employed until 1883. According to Moss, “[around 1906] in the city, the law enforcement staff had risen to three, Marshal Charles H. Wallis and two patrolmen. One of them was the wellknown officer, Andy Halligan. In 1909, the city adopted the commission form of government and the first actual police department came into being....
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In the 1950s, Grand Junction was thriving due to the Uranium Boom. Growth was expected to rise, and the arrival of commercial stores and shopping malls across America kick-started this forward-thinking initiative. Alongside Joe Lacy, Dale Hollingsworth, and Leland Schmidt, a city committee created a construction redesign for Main Street. Strides to make the area safe for pedestrians, as well as planning for parades, led to the winding path the street...
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According to Richard “Dick” Williams, who worked for the company in the 1920’s, the Colescott Brothers delivered ice that was produced in an ice plant by the Public Service Company. Colescott Brothers had the contract to deliver the ice to people in Grand Junction and Mesa County. As deliverymen drove through alleyways, people who wanted ice would come out to buy it. Children would often follow the truck and grab pieces of ice that had fallen....
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Sousa Day in Grand...
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Early Grand Junction social organization and literary society. According to Lucy (Ferril) Ela, The Reviewers Club rose from the ashes of the Twentieth Century Club, a women’s organization that was formed by Harriet (Dyke) Ottman around 1901, after her arrival from the Midwest. The Twentieth Century Club was short lived and Ottman left Grand Junction for two years. In another version of the Twentieth Century Club's history given at a "Women of...
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It was founded as Mesa General Memorial Hospital in 1946. Area doctors banded together to purchase and renovate an old restaurant on 12th Street into a hospital. Lacking building materials in the post-World War II scarcity, they reused doors from old buildings and took donated sheets and linens from residents. The hospital had twelve beds. The hospital had a few names over the years, including Lincoln Park Hospital and Grand Junction Osteopathic...
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In a lecture to the Grand Junction Lions Club, given just days before he died, prominent water law attorney Silmon Smith talks about his life and the history of Grand Junction (the lecture was broadcast hours later on KREX radio). He remembers his family’s arrival in the town in the 1890’s and early development in Grand Junction. He recalls a colorful Main Street filled with saloons. He speaks about his father Frank Smith’s respiratory illness,...
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The Teller Indian School (later called the Teller Institute) was named after U.S. Senator Henry Teller of Colorado, who was instrumental in passing legislation for the creation of the school in 1886 with the first students arriving in 1887. It followed the philosophy of Colonel Richard Henry Pratt, founder of the Carlyle School in Pennsylvania, who believed that Indian children must be removed from their families and culture and immersed in Western...
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An organization founded by physicians Everett H. Munro and Herman Graves, with Al Look as their publicity person. It was a member of the Colorado Cancer Society and American Cancer Society. The society brought in the pathologist Dr. Saccomanno, who established his own laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital, where local doctors could send biopsies to be examined. Previously, doctors had had to send biopsies to Denver for examination.