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According to Richard “Dick” Williams, who worked for the company in the 1920’s, the Colescott Brothers delivered ice that was produced in an ice plant by the Public Service Company. Colescott Brothers had the contract to deliver the ice to people in Grand Junction and Mesa County. As deliverymen drove through alleyways, people who wanted ice would come out to buy it. Children would often follow the truck and grab pieces of ice that had fallen....
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Timeline of Library History 1884 to Present
Source: Bud Werner Memorial Library Website
1884 - The first public meeting room ~ Union Church ~ was built on Pine Street between 7th and 8th Streets (current site of the Human Service Building).
1887 - Union Church became the William Denison Memorial Library (Library Hall). William Denison came west seeking relief and a cure from tuberculosis, which had stricken him while a medical student at Harvard....
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Camp Kearny was a U.S. military base (first Army, later Navy) in San Diego County, California, on the site of the current Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. It operated from 1917 to 1946. The base was named in honor of Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny.
The photograph studio created panoramic prints of the base and soldiers.
1712) The Lone Tree Cemetery
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A brief history of the Lone Tree Cemetery:
The first recorded burials in Telluride’s Lone Tree Cemetery were in the mid-late 1800’s, during Telluride’s mining boom era, when avalanches, flu epidemics, mining accidents and labor strikes took many lives. Families would usually bury their loved ones by themselves, and care for their graves. There was no Cemetery District in place until 1956, when a female civic group named the Commonweal Girls...
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The Loma Community Church was organized as the First Presbyterian Church in 1909. Reverend George F. McCleve, who had held services at the Loma School prior to the church's organization, served as the first minister. The congregation built a church in 1909-1910 (The Church That Stayed by Virginia Donoho).
According to oral history interviewee and Loma resident Hazel W. (Durham) Murphy, the Loma Presbyterian church was built and furnished with money...
