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A small school district with boundaries between the Clifton and Palisade School Districts. It was formed in 1898, before the consolidation of districts and the formation of Mesa County School District 51 in 1951. It administered the Mt. Lincoln School, of which Wayne Aspinall was an alum. Aspinall later served as a teacher in the district. Frank Roe and A.E. Martin were early members of the board, and Roe was the primary force behind the funding and...
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A Palisade chapter of P.E.O., an organization for women, began in 1928. Original members included Ruth Tilton, who was selected as guard, and Julia Aspinall. According to Tilton, the Grand Junction P.E.O. would not sponsor the Palisade women who were trying to begin their own chapter and dismissed the Palisade members as “Just a bunch of farm women.” The CD Chapter sponsored the Palisade Public Library.
According to the website of P.E.O., the...
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Colorado Mesa University was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1925. It began as Grand Junction Junior College and was established with the support of Colorado State Representatives Sterling Lacy and Ollie Bannister, who worked with representatives from Trinidad and Pueblo to secure colleges for all three areas.
During its first years of existence as Grand Junction Junior College, classes were taught in the old Lowell School, which had been...
