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It was established in 1913 as The Redlands Realty Company by Albert J. Schwartz, W. C. Osborne, and R. J. Bardwell. It was preceded by the Redlands Water and Power Company, which was organized in 1905. The history of the two companies intertwines, with the Water and Power Company conceived of as a means to bring to fruition the broader development and sale of real estate on the Redlands. According to William Rump, whose father Charles Rump was involved...
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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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The 1895 First National Bank/Knights of Pythias building faces the intersection of F and Second streets is associated with the history of financial institutions and of fraternal organizations in
Salida. The building, located on the site where the disastrous fire of January
1888 started, was erected to house the First National Bank on the first story
and the Knights of Pythias meeting hall on the second. The First National
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A company established in 1921 by Harry Lewis Brown, who had sold his Wrigley’s chewing gum factory in New Jersey in order to fund the venture, reportedly starting with an initial capital investment of $100,000. The company’s first mine was based above the Roan Creek Valley, half a mile from the eventual placement of the Roan Creek Community Hall. The company mined the oil shale from Mount Blaine (also known as Mount Index). A tramway brought the...
