History Tours, Music, and 1893 Annotated

*Golden Eye Candy – Finish Line of the 2018 Buffalo Bill Days Duck Race – Click to enlarge*

Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden

JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:

Cases in Jeffco – Thurs: 3512 | Fri: 3610
Deaths in Jeffco – Thurs: 220 | Fri: 220
Ever Hospitalized in Jeffco – Thurs: 475 | Fri: 476 (currently 23)
Recovered – Thurs: 2996 | Fri: 3031 (Note–there was a typo yesterday, erroneously reporting this number as 2031.)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 140 | Fri: 140

The next new numbers will come out Monday afternoon and will appear in Tuesday’s email.

Mask Rules:
Jefferson County has amended their mask rule: masks must now be worn both indoors and outdoors in public spaces where 6 feet distance cannot be maintained. This matches Golden’s requirement. The rest of the state requires masks only indoors.

The Safer at Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors protocol is in effect statewide. City and County fire restrictions are in place.

Virtual Golden

It’s Sunday! The following Golden churches have information about virtual services and/or sermons on their websites:

Calvary Episcopal Church – Golden Presbyterian – Faith Lutheran Church – First United Methodist Church – First Presbyterian Church – Flatirons Community Church – Hillside Community Church – Jefferson Unitarian Church – Rockland Community Church – St. Joseph Catholic Church

Real Life Golden

11AM Wild West Pub Crawl Tour
5PM Wild West Walking Tour

Live Music:
1PM Centerpiece Band, featuring Joni Janak at Café 13
3PM Boomers at Wrigley’s

Golden History Moment

1893 – Annotated

The following local news appeared in the July 26, 1893 Colorado Transcript.

Choke Cherries are beginning to ripen. (That’s true today, too!)

Top Left – Entrance to Manhattan Beach X-19530 from the Denver Public Library Western History Collection. Top Right – First Presbyterian Church of Golden, courtesy of Donna Plummer. Bottom – Denver Lakewood and Golden, courtesy of the Golden History Museum

The Presbyterian Sunday School gave a picnic at Manhattan Beach Thursday. They went over the Lakewood and report the jolliest of times.

Manhattan Beach was an amusement park on Sloan’s Lake in Edgewater. The Lakewood referred to the interurban train (the Denver, Lakewood & Golden). Its route ran through Lakewood, using much the same route that today’s “W” line follows.

*1893 World’s Fair – The Columbian Exposition in Chicago – Courtesy, Library of Congress*

Prof. and Mrs. M. C. Ihlsing and Baby Dorothy are home again from their summer outing. They visited the World’s Fair on their way home.

This refers to the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago.

*Excerpt from Z-1821, Denver Public Library Western History Collection*

Geo. R. Arnold–everybody knows George–has taken hold of the Standley Hall stables and will run them as a feed and sale establishment. By giving strictest attention to his customers he expects to build up a good trade.

Standley Hall was a large brick building at 12th and Arapahoe (across the street from the Astor House), built in the 1870s and used for many dances, performances, and political meetings. The building blew down in a windstorm in 1902.

*The City later bought Sapp’s Grove and used it as the Golden Tourist Camp (1924-1939). One of the stone cottages remains, on the north side of Lewis Court – Click to enlarge*

The Warren dances at Sapp’s Grove are becoming very popular and the Lakewood comes into this pleasant resort crowded both from Denver and Golden. The pavilion will undoubtedly be enlarged to accommodate the large crowds.

Sapp’s Grove was a large collection of cottonwoods located at 23rd and Jackson. In 1893, Jackson was a railway line rather than a street, and it was convenient for the railroad to drop passengers there for the regularly scheduled dances.

*6th and Ford – Courtesy of Google Maps*

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brown have one of the prettiest and most profusely supplied flower gardens in Golden. It is located at the corner of Sixth and Ford streets, occupies two lots, and is only two years old from the bare prairie. They have accomplished wonders in the short time they have occupied the place.

Sixth and Ford is now a retaining wall, so the Browns must have had a sloping lot!

*Mouth of Clear Creek Canyon – Courtesy of Google Maps*

It will seem funny to see history repeat itself in Golden in the matter of carrying on trade with gold-dust and amalgum. In ’59 and ’60 the smallest purchases were paid for in dust, every merchant and business man having his little gold-scales ready for use. We expect to see the boys who are making things so lively in the creek bed just now making that sort of history for us again in the near future.

That summer, there were two parties prospecting for gold in Clear Creek–one at the mouth of the canyon and one in the valley between the two Table Mountains. Transcript publisher George West was here in ’59 and ’60, and would well remember those days of trading in gold dust.

Many thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and many thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!