MSS. Manuscript Collections

Content Description This collection consists of real estate abstracts for various properties in Jefferson County, Colorado. An abstract of title is a summary of the various activities affecting ownership of a parcel of land. It contains the original grant and all subsequent conveyances and encumbrances affecting the property and a certification by the abstractor that the history is complete and accurate. Collection contains abstracts of title to the properties listed. All abstracts were received from private...

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Election certificates, obituary, and photocopies of his portrait and photo of the family farm at 32nd and McIntyre.

Scope and Contents A collection of postcards gathered from numerous accessions into one box by the Archives. All are numbered with their original accession number identifying donor and related collection.Images represent Denver Mountain Parks: The Lariat Loop, Lookout Mountain and Buffalo Bill’s Grave, and Park of the Red Rocks; Mt. Evans; Tiny Town; Bear Creek Canon; Troutdale Hotel in Evergreen; Clear Creek Canon; Denver City buildings; Lutheran Sanatorium; the Colorado School of Mines emblem...

Abstract From the introduction: From one-room schoolhouses to developed public schools, rural education in America has seen a dramatic shift over time. School consolidation played a large part in this shift on a national level and was one of the main reasons that America began transitioning away from one-room schoolhouses. This shift can particularly be studied in Conifer, Colorado. The first schools in Conifer appeared in the late 1800s as one-room schoolhouses and were maintained as the only...

Scope and Contents "Atlas of Colorado" is a post-bound folder containing general highway maps of each county in Colorado with the exception of Denver County. Prepared by the Department of Highways, State of Colorado, Planning and Research Division in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Bureau of Public Roads. Original maps dated 1951-1966 with State Highway and County Road System revisions dated 1967. Folder also contains a 1965 Traffic Volume Map of the...

Scope and Contents The Ault cemetery lies on South Turkey Creek in Jefferson County, Colorado. It was also known as the Medlen Cemetery, due to its location near the site of the Medlen School and Post Office in South Turkey Creek, the South Turkey Creek Cemetery, and possibly Reed Cemetery. The cemetery contains the remains of approximately 80 people, mostly former residents of Bradford Precinct and vicinity. The Ault Cemetery Association records consist of a name index to burials, the association's...

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This Bear Creek Wagon Road Company ledger book lists the date, name of traveler, amount charged for toll, and total amount collected per day for passage on the toll road. It is for the period of December 27, 1886 to January 1889 while being operated by Jefferson County. At the back are lists of monthly expenses incurred for 1887.

Content Description Collection of various types of record books and documents of the Bright and Brown Lateral Ditch Company, located in Arvada, Colorado.Sub-series I contains bound record books. The first is an accounting journal dated 1955-1971, containing assessments, expenses and transfers. The first 20 pages of the book have been cut out. Next are the Record of Proceedings (minutes) books, of which there are three covering 1882-1966. The first five pages of the earliest book appear to have been...

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Personal papers of Charles O. Moore, his wife Virginia and family related to various Jefferson County schools and Mr. Moore’s service to the R-1 school board in Jefferson County; Mrs. Moore’s service as president of the Mile-Hi Council of Girl Scouts; the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration in 1986; and the family’s trip to Europe in 1961.

Scope and Contents Ledger of accounts for Clark and Merrill (Charles F. Clark and Charles Merrill), possibly a store or a lumber mill in Morrison, Colorado. Transactions dated 1878 to 1882. An article in the Golden Weekly Globe of July 13, 1878 states that "Mr. W.S. Smith has sold his store and goods to Messrs. Clark and Merrill. The village loses a good business man; the surrounding country a good postmaster and the lumber men a good buyer... Mr. C.F. Clark expects to be his successor as postmaster." No...

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Minutes of a meeting of the Clear Creek Highway Association held May 24, 1937. Discussed at the meeting was construction of a new super highway from North Denver to Idaho Springs and Central City, by way of Golden and Clear Creek Canyon. There is also a resolution passed by the North Denver Civic Association in favor of construction of the canyon highway. These documents were originally mailed to Jefferson County's Board of County Commissioners for their information.

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Hand-written, alphabetical listing of persons enumerated in Jefferson County during the first census of the State of Colorado in 1885. Each entry indicates name, race, gender, age, marital status and birthplace of every person living in a household at the time.

Scope and Contents Reports of automobile accident statistics prepared by George E. Saunders, Colorado Secretary of State and Chairman of the Colorado Safety Council, filed with the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder's office. Reports list number of fatal accidents with number killed; number of injury accidents with number of persons injured; number of property damage only accidents; and total number of accidents. One report of January 1938 is for Jefferson County only. There are monthly reports for the entire...

Scope and Contents Photographs documenting the effort to preserve the flowers, stuffed animals and other materials sent or taken to the memorial site in Clement Park, Littleton, Colorado, dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School Shootings that took place on April 20, 1999. The color photo prints of the Clement Park Memorial were taken April 29, 1999 by a member of the Jefferson County Historical Commission. The black and white prints and negatives of the Clement Park memorial Site, recovery...

Scope and Contents Large, post-bound volume containing copies of recorded plats for the various sections and blocks of Crown Hill Cemetery located in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Includes the original 1908 plat listing Verner Davis as landscape artist and J.C. McAdams as engineer. The Crown Hill Cemetery Association was formed in 1907 by George W. Olinger and five other Denver entrepreneurs. Their plan was to convert the land just west of Wadsworth Ave. into one of the finest cemeteries in the Denver area. They...

Abstract From the introduction: While evidence suggests that a large percentage of Pikes Peakers in 1859 were not interested in self government, others felt otherwise. The historiography of the Jefferson Territorial government, 1859-1862, is characterized by the commitment of a few politicians, such as Robert Williamson Steele, Seymour Waggoner and William Larimer. These men were representative of the minority of Pikes Peak imigrants who sought independence from Kansas in order to encourage local...

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Ditch Companies Photograph Album contains black and white photographs of ditches, laterals, flumes, etc. and their descriptions for water sources throughout Jefferson County, Colorado.

Content Description Collection contains draft articles and research material prepared for Jefferson County, Colorado's Outdoor Education Lab, by Doris B. Osterwald, Specialist in Residence, Jefferson County Outdoor Education Lab. The first draft is titled "Teacher's Guide for the Short Geology Trail, Jefferson County Outdoor Education School," written in 1979 to explain geologic features found along the school's short geology trail. The second draft, "Front Range and Windy Peak Geology," was intended as...