Rocky Flats Becomes National Environmental Crisis
Following WWII, the U.S. selected Dow Chemical to break ground on a centrally located site in Arvada for parts production to support an increase...
Keyes v. School District No. 1
Denver Public Schools, serving District 1, currently consists of 207 schools teaching more than 90,000 students across the county. For more than 15 years...
The First Same-Sex Marriage License in Colorado
Two men, Dave McCord and Dave Zamora, were turned away in Colorado Springs in 1975 after requesting a marriage license. After reportedly being told...
The First Televised Criminal Trial in Colorado
It wasn’t a crime in America to blow up a plane until the deaths of 44 people in Weld County made the federal government...
The Crusade for Justice
The Crusade for Justice located at Colfax and Downing in Denver was one of the few centers in the region dedicated to the advancement...
Three’s Company: That time Colorado had three governors in one day
Colorado voters rallied around the phrase “anybody but Peabody” as the state held its 1904 elections — one of the most scandalous and fraudulent elections in state history.
A Century of Banned Marriages
A black man and white woman living together in Denver as a married couple, were arrested in 1939 and again in 1941 for the...
Denver’s 1894 Job Scare: Why the governor aimed cannons at City Hall
In Denver in 1894, police and fire department board members barricaded themselves in City Hall. Then-Gov. Davis Waite ordered the Colorado Army National Guard to aim full-size, military-grade cannons at the building in hopes of driving the protestors out.
Kansas v. Colorado
On Feb. 24 and 28 in 1902, Colorado and Kansas went head to head over the Arkansas River in the federal court system for...
Dearfield’s Determined Founder
Colorado was a rough and tumble place in the early 1900’s. While the Wild West had finally been settled after the encouragement of the...