by admin | Nov 25, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Golden Informer
Golden History Museum & Park (GHM&P) recently acquired several rare artifacts from the Ben H. Parker Jr. estate in Golden. The Ben H. Parker Student Center at the Colorado School of Mines is named after his father. Notable finds include a signed 1896 second...
by Nathan Richie | Nov 24, 2020 | Culinary History
Ingredients (Yields 2 Pies) 1 can (29 oz.) pumpkin puree 3 cups evaporated milk 1 ½ cups granulated sugar 4 large eggs 1 tsp salt 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground ginger ½ tsp ground clove ½ tsp allspice 2 unbaked 9-inch (4-cup volume) deep dish pie shells Whipped...
by Mark Dodge | Oct 30, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Colorado School of Mines
“Flu situation here is getting dangerous,” blared a headline on the front page of Golden’s Colorado Transcript newspaper on Dec. 5, 1918. Though it’s more than 100 years old, this historic news story about Spanish influenza could’ve been written in 2020. “Clearly,...
by admin | Oct 16, 2020 | Discover Magazine, Memoirs, Press Release
The Fall 2020 Discover magazine features an excerpt from “A Woman’s Life in Golden,” Betty Herron Gleaton’s memoir of growing up with polio (read the complete memoir in our online collection), and an account of traveling to Colorado in 1870 by Mrs. Mary Kalbaugh...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 18, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Golden Informer
Arapahoe City was located north of Clear Creek, west of present-day McIntyre Street approximately two miles east of Golden. Initially, a mining district, and the earliest city in Jefferson County, it was founded on November 28, 1858. Members of the Arapahoe Town...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 12, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Memoirs
MEMOIRS of my treck across the Plains, the last time in 1870, and early childhood days. By Mrs. Mary Kalbaugh Whited. Pueblo, Colorado, April, 1948. It was in April, 1870, my Father with his family, also an uncle, Wm. F. Hunter, and family and other neighbors and...
