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According to Edith (Burns) Strain, the church was founded as the Methodist Episcopal Church at Clifton (of which Strain was a member). The church was organized in 1906 and the first church building was constructed at 4th Street and Grand Avenue in Clifton in 1907. The church was dedicated by Methodist preacher and governor Henry A. Buchtel.
Because the foundation of the original church building was sinking, a new building was constructed and dedicated...
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The club was organized in 1939 out of a feeling, said founding member Oscar Jaynes, “that the community needed somebody to help with community projects.”
After a Mrs. Babock perished in a house fire in February 1941, the club decided to advocate for the creation of fire protection district. They sponsored the founding of the Clifton Volunteer Fire Department by collecting items for a rummage sale, raising $300.
In the 1960’s, they provided...
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A local chapter of the international organization created by attorney Silmon Smith, M.N. Due, Bob Ross, and man named Jones in 1921. According to Lion Laird Smith, the club briefly disbanded when Walter Walker brought the Rotary Club to town. In 1922, the Grand Junction Lions Club reformed with Silmon Smith as president (Laird's father). According to Silmon Smith, because he and others had not been offered membership in the Rotary Club, he and other...
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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 law firm begun by lawyer C.L. Watson and one-time attorney general Benjamin “Ben” Griffith in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s, and the oldest continually practicing law firm in Grand Junction. The firm was originally called Griffith and Watson.
Silmon Smith joined the firm shortly after receiving his law degree from the University of Denver in 1912. Smith became one of the most knowledgeable and foremost water law attorneys in the country...
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According to Luisa (Durante) Landini, who brought milk to be processed there from her dairy farm, the creamery was run by a man named Arbuckle in the 1920's and perhaps before.
1668. Moffat Coal Company
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The Sure Strike company was founded by Denver high school student and fly fisherman Jo Ann Durand. She most likely learned fly tying from her father, who was the owner of a sporting goods store. According to a relative of Durand, she hired women to tie the flies while she was at school or at lessons. Her company was known all over North America. When she left for college in Ft. Collins, she sold the company (http://classicflyrodforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43908).
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1670. People's Party
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"The American Railway Union (ARU) was briefly among the largest labor unions of its time and one of the first industrial unions in the United States. The union was launched at a meeting held in Chicago in February 1893 and won an early victory in a strike on the Great Northern Railroad in the summer of 1893."
-Wikipedia
1672. Tell Me a Story Media
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A media production company, owned by Amy Levek and Dean Rolley. Co-produced such films as the YX Factor: Telluride, Colorado 1970s and We Skied It, two movies about Telluride, Colorado's history.
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Women's social club active in the early 20th century in Salida, Colorado.
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New York-based firm that served as the prime service contractor for the Grand Junction office of the Atomic Energy Commission. They operated a concentrate sampling plant, an analytical laboratory, a borehole logging service, and a mineralogic laboratory. They also performed purchasing, maintenance, construction, and other related services, in addition to providing a unified guard force for the Grand Junction Atomic Energy Office. These operations...
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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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A prominent local arts organization that has long been a cornerstone of the arts in Mesa County. The Art Center displays local artwork, hosts exhibitions, and teaches artistic skills.
According to Josephine Kate (Ramsay) Biggs, a local artist in the early Twentieth century, the Art Center may have had the Brush and Palette Club as its forerunner. The Brush and Palette club consisted of local artists who would meet in downtown Grand Junction in...
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According to longtime employee Frank Simonetti, the financing and insurance company was established in 1925. It was located first at 557 Main Street, in the old Mesa County Courthouse building (now Main Street Bagels). Melvin “Pappy” Due was a significant figure in the organization’s history. He was one of its founding members and a longtime director with influence over the board of directors. Other founding members included Judge Sherrington...
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A commercial passenger airline founded in 1955. It later became ‘Frontier Airlines’ (although not the same as the present company of that name). Their office, located in the rear of the new Citizens Finance building at 4th Street and Rood Avenue, opened in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1955. According to Frank Simonetti, who worked in the same building, their grand opening was attended by the ‘Pink Poodle Posse’, a collection of girls dressed...
1679. American Legion Post #44
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Steamboat Springs World War I veterans organized Leo Hill Post #44 and were given a charter in August of 1920, making the Post one of the oldest continuing community organizations. The Post had 40 charter members and the first officers were: Dr. F.A. McDaniel, Commander; Lloyd Gregg, Vice Commander and Art Campbell as Adjutant. The Post was named after Leo Hill, the first Steamboat Springs soldier to be killed in World War I. Leo Hill was the son...
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Originally known as St. Malachy, which was the first Catholic Church in the Fruita community. Built in 1890 on land that was donated by the Kiefer brothers Val, Ben, and Frank. In 1919 a new site was purchased. Two years later, after construction was finished, the church was renamed Sacred Heart. By 2008, a third location was purchased with a brand-new church built on top of that.