WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8-8:55AM Tai Chi (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Outdoor Story Time @ Golden History Museum
10:30AM-12PM Hands-on Activities @ Golden History Museum
11:30AM-12:45PM Community Development Committee @ Golden Visitors Center
12 and 1:30PM Is He Really Buried Here? @ Buffalo Bill Museum
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
5:30PM Celebration of Life Service – Vicki Sue Wagner @ Golden Visitors Center
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
LIVE MUSIC
5:30-8:30PM Hash Cabbage @ Goosetown Station
6-9PM Keith Wren @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-9PM Bunny Blake @ Miners Saloon
6-8PM Open Mic Golden w/Derek Hall @ Morris & Mae
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
39 Years Ago
The August 2, 1984 Golden Transcript told the story of Maud White, “a spry 93 year old.” Maud was born in Cornwall, where her father was a hard rock miner. In 1892, he moved to Michigan to work in their mines, and two years later, Maud and her mother joined him. Over the next several years, he worked in Colorado mines in Nevadaville, Idaho Springs, and Aspen.
They moved to Golden in 1902, when Maud was ten. Tired of moving, her mother told her father that he could move wherever he liked, but she was staying in Golden. And so they did. Her father got a job as a powder man in the quarry on South Table Mountain.
Maud attended North School, then South School. She graduated from high school in 1910. She was athletic, and went through a lot of shoes, which they replaced at the Big Red Boot shoe store on Washington Avenue.
As a young lady, she was told not to consort with Mines students, because if she did, the Golden boys would have nothing to do with her (because the Mines boys were “older men”).
Golden had five grocery stores when she was growing up, plus four butcher shops and a slaughter house. “The butcher from Ninth and Ford pedaled with his horse and cart…three times a week.” The grocery stores sold produce raised on the farms and orchards in the Clear Creek valley.
She remembered seeing the original Adolph Coors delivering kegs to his Saloon on Washington Avenue. She said Golden had wooden sidewalks for a long time.
She married Claude White, from an old pioneer family. Claude’s parents had prospered, and they gave each of their nine children a choice of 40 acres of farmland or $5,000. Claude must have chosen the cash. He was in the abstract business in the County Courthouse, where Maud also worked. He was also a director at the Golden Savings & Loan.
They purchased the Loveland Building (then called the Golden Mercantile Building) in 1941. She said it was constructed of brick made in Golden and was painted yellow at that time. There were empty rooms on the second floor, and when the boys came home from World War II, they used seven of them as rooms for the veterans.
Claude and his brother Paul purchased 3300 acres northwest of Golden known as White’s Ranch. Paul later bought out Claude’s interest in the property and Paul’s widow donated it to the County. It is now White Ranch Park.
Maud and Claude raised three children in their home at Eighth and Arapahoe. They are buried in the Golden Cemetery, as are Maud’s parents.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
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