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A Mesa County organization of World War I servicemen that was organized by American Legion members. According to the Daily Sentinel article "Last Squad Club honors comrades" (Gary Massaro, February 19, 1981), the Last Squad Club was founded during the Great Depression. At its founding in 1936, it numbered 169 members.
Members in the group included Roy Pardew and Jess Burrows, Glen L. Coffman, William W. De Voe, C.M. Fancher, Webb H. Fiene, J....
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GrassRoots envisions an inclusive, engaged community, strengthened by authentic interaction.
GrassRoots promotes civic participation through civil discourse, creative endeavors and cultural interaction by providing residents and visitors open access to high quality, affordable public video production resources and expertise, combined with digital content distribution over a variety of media outlets. -- GrassRoots website...
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The First Baptist Church was one of the first churches organized in Grand Junction and the second congregation with its own church building (the First Methodist Church seems to have organized first and built their building just prior). In the February 3, 1883 edition of the Grand Junction News, the article “A Baptist Church” mentions a meeting to take place in the Mayor’s office for the organization of a Baptist Church. By February 10, 1883,...
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According to the website of the Redlands Community Church, it began in 1921 as a spiritual home for farmers who did not want to travel to Grand Junction or Fruita in order to go to church. It was, according to the site, the first church located in the Redlands. Kermit Brubaker served as the pastor there from 1965 to 1972. It is located at 2327 Broadway.
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According to the book The Church that Stayed by Virginia Donoho, The Methodist Church in Loma was founded in 1909 with a church building being constructed in 1913. Longtime resident Gertrude Rader moved to Loma around 1920 and became an active member of the church and of the affiliated Ladies Aid Society. The Church seems to have met in the houses of members, at least for a time, and to have had guest ministers. A popular minister was James Baggs...
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A music organization in early Grand Junction. It was founded in part by Ruth (Fulwider) Bull and Mrs. Townsend.
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According to Lucy (Ferril) Ela, the club was founded around 1900 by a Mrs. Oglesvie, a “thinker and doer” who had just moved to town. Six of the members educated themselves about the countries of the world and then attended the World’s Fair [in 1904]. The club eventually disbanded.
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According to an oral history interview with Clarence Prinster, the first City Market grocery store was established by Adam Booker. The book The History of City Market gives the date of this establishment as 1922. The store operated at 400 Main Street.
Paul Prinster, the oldest Prinster brother, had been working at a Piggly Wiggly store, and purchased a share in City Market’s ownership from Booker in 1924. He persuaded his brothers Frank, Leo,...
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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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According to Grace and Ralph Inskeep, it was a church presided over by pastor Alvin Ricks in the early Twentieth century. Ralph Inskeep was appointed superintendent of the church by the state church’s overseer. Ricks had a parsonage built east of the church. Church attendance apparently declined when some members started working on Sundays.
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A florist business begun by horticulturalist Stephen Barnwell Johnson Sr. in 1919. Johnson established the first Johnson’s House of Flowers in Montrose. He sold the business to his son Donald in 1937 and moved to Grand Junction. That same year, he purchased greenhouses from the Arcieri family on Struthers Avenue and 7th Street, and opened a storefront at 434 Main Street. He moved the greenhouses and shop to 1350 North Avenue in 1939. It was the...
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A lumberyard owned by William Clarence Kurtz (who also owned a yard in Montrose) and managed by Alfred Bigum.
In addition to selling lumber, the company also apparently employed an architect at one time. Stephen Johnson recalls that an architect who worked for the company drew the plans for Johnson’s House of Flowers on North Avenue in 1937.
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A sugar company begun in Holly, Colorado in 1905. It processed sugar beets in order to extract sugar, and operated a sugar beet processing unit in Grand Junction, Colorado, which it took over from the Western Sugar and Land Company in 1916. They eventually moved their processing operations to Delta, in 1933.
During the 1960's the company employed many Navajo people as migrant workers, and would send buses to Arizona for their transportation to...
1575) The Vail Trail
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Founded by George Washington Knox, Sr. on 15 October 1965, The Vail Trail was Vail’s first newspaper. George Knox Sr., who was affectionately known as “The Skipper,” took care of all aspects of the newspaper’s business. In 1969, the family formally reorganized the family business. George Knox, Sr. was named President of the Knox Publishing Company, in addition to being the hands-on newspaper publisher and editor. Allen Knox served as...
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According to William McHarg Ela, the cattle ranch was begun by his great-uncle Charles “Charley” Ela, who had come from New Hampshire in 1881 to the Little Dolores River while working for the Palisade Land and Cattle Company. He seems to have died around 1883 and his brother Wendell Phillips Ela arrived to take his place in the business. The Sleeper family eventually took over ownership of the ranch. It was co-owned by John Frank Sleeper, a civil...
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The Izaak Walton League in Mesa County, part of a broader national organization, advocated for several ecological and environmental changes, including: the establishment of grasses for sheep and cattle grazing, the prevention of sewage runoff in the Colorado and Gunnison Rivers, the abatement of smog in the Grand Valley, and erosion and flood control.
School superintendent and local leader Lucille (Hunter) Mahannah worked as a member of the Ladies...
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A railway line the Gilson Manufacturing Company created that ran from Crevasse, Colorado (later known as Mack, Colorado) to Black Dragon in order to mine natural asphalt from the Black Dragon uintaite vein.
The railway was headquartered in Mack, Colorado. It’s final destination and turning point was Watson, Utah. It’s main mission was to haul gilsonite, but it also included one passenger car. According to Mesa County History Project interviewee...
