by Nathan Richie | Jul 26, 2022 | American Indian Ethnography, City of Golden
Native American history and connections to the Clear Creek Valley and table lands of the central Colorado Front Range extend back more than 12,000 years. Contemporary Native American communities still view this place as an aboriginal homeland. However, today’s typical...
by Nathan Richie | Dec 15, 2021 | American Indian Ethnography, City of Golden, Collections and Exhibits
Indigenous Representation in Golden History American Indians have for thousands of years made and continue to call the Golden area home. Like many cultural institutions around the nation and the world, Golden History Museum & Park is beginning to reckon with its...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 23, 2021 | City of Golden, Golden History Museum
The changing face of Golden David McCullough said, History is a spacious realm encompassing the full sweep of human experiences, and I agree. At the core it’s all about change. The seasons, relationships, people, places and things. Embracing it, resisting it, and...
by Mark Dodge | Jun 17, 2021 | City of Golden, Collections and Exhibits
Making the move At least one professional safe mover said we were crazy and that it couldn’t be done. “Old safes were not built to be moved,” he said. But a team from the City of Golden’s Streets Department proved otherwise, when on May 13, we safely transported a...
by admin | Dec 19, 2020 | City of Golden, Collections and Exhibits
Golden History Museum & Park has limited property records in the permanent collection. However, it’s always worth searching the online collection. For questions regarding property in one of Golden’s three historic districts, try the City of Golden Planning...
by admin | Dec 10, 2020 | Cemetery, City of Golden
By Paul Albani-Burgio, Golden Transcript palbaniburgio@coloradocommunitymedia.com Long before the Rockies held court at 20th and Blake, the Denver Grizzlies hit balls at Sixth and Acoma in the late 1880s as one of Colorado’s first professional baseball teams. It was a...