WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
Day Out with Thomas @ Colorado Railroad Museum – Final Day – SOLD OUT
9-11AM Geology and History of North Table Mountain Park @ 4788 Highway 93
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM Wild West Short Tour
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
1-4PM Dungeons & Dragons: Dice Making @ Golden Library
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
LIVE MUSIC
11AM-2PM Scot Slay @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
2-5PM Alibi Band@ Golden Mill
3-6PM Swing Aggregate @ Over Yonder
3-7PM Jewel & the Rough @ Wrigley’s
4-7PM Sage Leary & Austin Skalecki @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT – COORS @ 150
163 Years Ago
The November 15, 1860 Western Mountaineer stated that Golden needed a tannery. We had butchers, but the hides they produced were mere by-products of the meat. The uncured hides were sent back to “the states” (we were a territory at the time)–and what smelly cargo that must have been! The writer thought that locally-dressed leather could be sold for half the price and still earn “a handsome margin for profit.”
The Civil War intervened, and it took seven more years, but Golden did finally get a tannery. The October 16, 1867 Colorado Transcript announced that C.C. Welch and A. Henry Clements were building a tannery on the east side of town. The first story was stone, the second brick, with timber flooring. It was a large building by the standards of the time–35′ x 45′.
I’m not sure how long the tannery remained in business, but in 1873, the building was purchased by a far more important industry. The November 12, 1873 Colorado Transcript announced that
Messrs. J. Schueler and Adolph Coors, of Denver, have purchased the old tannery property of C. C. Welch and John Pipe, and will convert it into a brewery. They purpose making large additions to the building, making it one of the most extensive works of the kind in the Territory, completing it about the first of February. We welcome these energetic gentlemen among us, and trust they will be as successful as they anticipate.
However much success they anticipated, they must surely have exceeded it. Schueler retired in 1880 and Coors bought out his interest in the firm. Today, Coors’ Golden plant is the largest single site brewery in the world.
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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