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A fruit grower’s cooperative run by Harry Younger. It may have been a division of the Grand Junction Fruit Growers Association. In his interview with the Mesa County Oral History Project, Thomas Charles refers to the organization as the Palisade Fruit Exchange.
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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...
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A branch of a revised version of the organization that began in 1915 and grew stronger in the 1920s. The Ku Klux Klan inflamed prevailing prejudices against Catholics, Jews, Blacks and immigrants, and promised a return to "Old Time Religion" and Americanism. As Colorado was a primarily Protestant state, the Klan's influence was particularly strong here during the 1920's. The Klan had several members in positions of power, including the governor,...
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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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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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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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The Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company provided the Interurban streetcar route from Fruita to Grand Junction, Colorado. It was run by the Public Service Company. The line in Grand Junction ran from 3rd and Main Streets, where there was a platform behind the Public Service Company building, down Main Street to 2nd Street, down 2nd Street to South Avenue, on South Avenue to 12th Street, on 12th to North Avenue, and then on North...
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Stage coach line that ran from Grand Junction to New Castle in the late 19th century.
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A cooperative organized by local fruit growers in Mesa County, Colorado in 1893. It was managed by John Moore, a farmer, for several years. According to attorney Silmon (Laird) Smith, whose father Frank Smith was an early fruit grower in Mesa County, the association formed when it was found that “commission men” in Denver were misrepresenting the quality of Grand Junction’s fruit when it arrived in Denver. The Denver commission said that the...
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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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At one time, S&M Supply Company was one of the largest mining supply companies in the United States.
Source: http://www.historic7thstreet.org/remembering/pdfs3/smsupply.pdf
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The Light and Power Company provided electricity to the Grand Valley in the early Twentieth Century. It also owned and operated the Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company, which ran the Interurban line between Fruita and Grand Junction, Colorado. The Light and Power Company was later purchased by the Public Service Company of Colorado. The Public Service Company was in turn a founding partner of Xcel Energy.
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Early Grand Junction company run by brothers Phidelah "P.A." Rice and William "W.A." Rice. They established a sawmill, Mesa County's first, on Pinon Mesa in 1883. They also ran a lumberyard near 249 S. 4th Street in Grand Junction.
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A team comprised of local citizens, organized in the early 1920's. The Grand Junction town baseball team was sponsored by the Grand Junction Electric Company. Men from the town, many of them accomplished players, played for the team. S.O. Harper, who had played varsity sports with the University of California, was on the team. Fred Clyde Martin, of Martin’s Mortuary, also played. Other players included Bill Roan, Henry Hall, Frank Llewellyn, and...
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Part of the Anglican Community of churches that recognize the Archbishop of Canterbury (aka the head of the Church of England) as the prime spiritual leader and are guided by bishops who oversee regional groups of congregations called dioceses. According to oral history interviewee Harriet “Muzz” Johnson, whose uncle Charles William Lyon was an early pastor, the church began its life as a mission and remained so for some time in the early Twentieth...
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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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The Daily Sentinel was founded in 1893 by Isaac N. Bunting. He published the paper until 1911, when he sold it to Walter Walker. Under Walker's leadership, the paper became a staunch supporter of Democratic Party causes. The Sentinel's main rival in its early years was the Grand Junction News, a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. The News's publisher, Charles Adams, was friends with Walker, and the News was eventually purchased by the Sentinel sometime...
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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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The first standard gauge railway built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction.
