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Friday, May 20, 2011

Why do so many people think Fountain is haunted?

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The blogger service allows me to see what you are searching for when you query google or another site for information, and are directed to t...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

What is a chivarii? and other fun photographs

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"Back in the old days"... when a couple was married, their friends would host activities to celebrate the wedding.  True, these ev...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The cause of all her troubles…

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Anna K. Pettingill is buried in Fountain’s Fairview Cemetery.   A tall monument marks the family plot and bears the names of Anna, James Art...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Fearful Wreck Narrowly Averted and other train deaths

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 Rocky Mountain News Dec 10, 1897  Weekly Rocky Mountain News Sept 15, 1898

The Fountain Herald - 1888 and 1903

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 Rocky Mountain News 6-7-1888  Soon after the great explosion of 1888 and the destruction of the AT&SF depot, the D&RG was pet...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Pikes Peak News Finder

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Did you know that the Pikes Peak Library has indexes of local newspapers, dating back to 1872, online?  The Security Advertiser and Fountain...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Marguerite Spicer Bulkley

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Marquerite's papers, which contain stories about Fountain and sketch maps of early residences, are housed in the Carnegie Library/ Speci...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Fountain vies for the honor of State Capital

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 1881 Denver newspaper article  Since the 1970s, local newspaper articles have mentioned that Fountain was at one time in the ru...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

News from 1872

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In the April 6, 1872 issue of Out West, appeared this article, meant to entice easterners to migrate to the Territory.   “Colorado: Pure air...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Lincoln Trading Post, Barlow and Sanderson and ranches of the lower Fountain Valley

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In the 1860s, there was a general store known as the Lincoln Trading Post on the stage coach road south of Fountain.  This stood near Little...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Bulkley Maps of Fountain

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Marguerite Bulkley's files contain maps of Fountain, as she remembered it and had heard about it from her family. These can be found o...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Dreadful Disaster- the 1888 wreck

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The following are notes from the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Springs Gazette on the 1888 explosion. The morning edition of the Puebl...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Mrs. Pearl Taylor- Fountain teacher for 30 years

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Mrs. Taylor taught in Fountain schools for 30 years.  Born Pearl Henrietta Grubb in Crawford County, Kansas in 1883, she taught school in Gi...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Fountain Valley Agriculture: The Land of Enchantment?

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The Special Collections of the Pikes Peak Library has a booster pamphlet extolling the virtues of agriculture in the region.  This probably ...

Woodmen Hall

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 Woodmen Hall, probably in December 1913 Woodmen Hall, at 102 N Main and Ohio, on the northeast corner of the center of town, was bui...