Good beautiful Spring morning: We have fought the wind all winter, and will again, but right now it could not be more "springy"
The Western Fremont Historical Society is developing a database for all the resource material that has been collected over the last 50 years (or longer). We are inviting all who have family history, pictures, letters or other memorabilia that would help someone else with their research about the area please let us know.
We have received a grant from Sangre De Cristo Electric Association in the amount of $200.00 tto purchase a software program that will help us scan and retain the viability of each piece of information. Thank you SDCEA!!

Historical Fremont County - Pioneers for the Ages

We are very fortunate, here in Fremont County, to have the Royal Gorge Regional Museum and History Center for a resource. The Fremont County Heritage Commission initiated the "Spirits of the Past" as a visual reminder to all the folks here, and the tourists who travel through, that we are special.

The "Spirits" have appeared at least 122 times at various events throughout the County, and in addition, the program by Sherry Johns, "Forgotten Female Felons" has also been seen from Pueblo to Westcliffe. These volunteers who present their stories are unique unto themselves, and are excellent story tellers about the lives of the folks they represent.

If you happen to be in Canon City on a First Friday Art Stroll, be sure to stop a "Spirit" and ask to hear the story of Fremont County from 1861 until the present.

Best to all,

Carol

The Fremont-Custer Historical Society has produced a commemorative envelope that is absolutely stunning - it has the Royal Gorge Quilt Council Sesquicentennial quilt as a chachet. The envelope is stamped with a Civil War commemorative stamp - also 150 years since the start of that terrible war. The envelope is then postmarked with a wonderful postmark, stating the Sesquicentennial Station, Fremont County, dated November 1, 2011 - the birthday of the Fremont County in Colorado - established officially by the Territorial Legislature on November 1, 1861.

Other Interests and Projects

I am interested in all the history of the Fremont County area. If you have any information that you would like to talk about, give me a shout at my email: cgi1935@yahoo.com



http://coloradogramma.googlepages.com/

http://westernfremontfiredistrict.googlepages.com/

http://cemeteryhistorian.blogspot.com/

The Golden Age Center site was developed by Harold Stoker, and I contributed some of the items to it. The Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery Committee site is entirely my doing, and had a lot of fun with that one.

I recently was elected to the Board of Directors of the Western Fremont Fire Protection District, and put this website up for folks to look at what is happening with that.

Sherry Johns just sent me the URL for her blogspot: http://www.ladymarigold.blogspot.com/

I think you might enjoy reading about her interests- a fellow historian.
Enjoy.

Here is a list I recently compiled to include in our website for the Friends of the Museum and History Center. Want to know something about Fremont County? Here it is:

http://www.fremontheritage.com/

http://www.cspm.org/ (Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum)

http://www.fremontco.com/commissioners/index.shtml

http://www.howardcolorado.com/

http://www.coaldaleco.info/Coaldale_Community_Building_Association/Welcome.html

http://www.penrosechamber.com/events.aspx

http://coloradoexplorer.com/events/florencepioneerday/view

www.goldbeltbyway.com/events.htm

http://www.fremontco.com/newsnow/archive/2008_01_01_fremontconewsnow_archive.shtml
http://www.royalgorgeroute.com/fremontcountyairport.htm

http://www.royalgorgebridge.com/

http://www.pcsfremontcounty.com/

http://www.royalgorgehistory.org/History_Old/HistoryCtr/HistoryCtr.html

http://www.penrosechamber.com/newsletters/1X4X2009.pdf

http://www.wetmorehistoricalsociety.com

Gramma

Other interests

HI:

Here are the addresses of a couple of other community interest websites:

howardcolorado.com

coaldale.colorado.com

fremontheritage.com

simplyghost.com

Royal Gorge Museum & History Center

HI All:

I hope you are still planning to visit the Museums in Canon City soon.

We have a variety of things of interest to many folks: Dinosaur Depot caters to the Archeologist/geologist and the Prison Museum is a great place to see the way things were at the Territorial Prison way back in 1880.

The Regional Museum and History Center is at 612 Royal Gorge Boulevard, and a veritable feast for the eyes of anyone interested in history.

Call 719 269 9036 if you are interested in any of their services, such as research for the geneologist, family member search, or addresses within the Fremont County area. Census records, railroad records, Cotter records - its all there.

I am on the Fremont County Heritage Commission now. We toured the Garden park School area in December, and had a great leader in Kurt Sorenson and his wife Peggy. The School had been named to the Colorado historic Register recently, so we are privileged to have a piece of history being recognized, and if we can do some grant work, get it restored.

If you would like to become a member of the Friends of the Museum and History Center, just give us a call, or stop in any day we're open (Wed. thru Sat. 10 to 4). $10.00 for an individual yearly, $15 for a couple and $25 for all the family.

Website: http://museumfriends.info

9/2009

The big event coming up is the On The Road Tour by Colorado Preservation, Inc. on September 25, 26 and 27th. I am helping set up the Greenwood Tour which will be on Saturday morning at 9:30.

There are brochures and registration available from PCI on the web, so if you are interested in three days of looking at Fremont County, please go to there URL.

Gram

Coaldale Cemetery is progressing

ABOVE: The gatehouse at Coaldale Cemetery is complete. We hope you will have time to go by and look. We also hope that when the weather gets nice, and you have a few moments for meditation or prayer, this will be the place you find peace and quiet.

Thanks to everyone for the hard work that was put into this project, and to the Anschutz Family Foundation and Holcim, Inc. for their generous donations of money, R & R Construction for equipment, Austin Koch for the gravel and road work, Mike Tezak Construction, and many many more that were responsible for this beautiful Cemetery.

HI All:
I just finished taking pictures of our beautiful new road at the NEW cemetery in Coaldale. We are extremely pleased to tell you that Austen Koch and Colorado Quarries donated that gravel and the means to get it on the ground. What a wonderful gift to the community!!
Here are some pics for you to look at, or even better, drive around the new section and pack that Indian Sunset down tight before the next gulley washer.

We have completed the fence along the road at the old cemetery, and gates have been installed. This is a locked cemetery, because of the liability (??) issues. If you wish to enter to do work, cut trees, pick up trash, etc. please contact one of the Cemetery Committee members.

We have contracted for a gazebo to be built at the West gate area for folks to use as an information and resting spot. The construction for this will begin this summer, and the Development Project will be done. Gridding of the graves will continue.

9/2009 - Just got back from taking pics of the Gazebo/gatehouse base that is now poured. Oakley Construction from Cotopaxi is doing the work at their cost.