Railroads -- Colorado
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Franchise and Right-of-Way Records, 1888-1912
Series — Box 1
Identifier: Series-246
Scope and Contents
Collection contains Board of County Commissioners' resolutions granting franchises and rights-of-way to petitioners wanting to construct, operate and maintain single or double track passenger railways in Jefferson County during the 1880s and 1890s. Franchises were granted to cross county roads. In some cases bonds and/or petitions signed by property owners and residents along the proposed lines accompany the resolutions.
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1888-1912
Pruden and Moore Family Papers, 1891-1985
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Series-175
Scope and Contents
Jennie Pruden's daily diaries were kept from 1891 until her death in 1945. She and her husband Charlie came from Iowa and homesteaded 160 acres in Jefferson County near Plainview in the early 1900s. They also owned and operated the Post Office and store on the Plainview stop of the Moffat Line starting in 1909. Her diaries recount daily pioneer life. Background research and photographs included. Transcript of oral history recordings with Charles Moore recorded between 1975 and...
Dates:
1891-1985
- Jefferson County Archives
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