Category: History

30 years ago – September 30, 1983

The Central City-Black Hawk Cable Committee met with representative of Custom Cable Systems Inc. and Clear Creek Television on Tuesday. Both companies made proposals to (more…)

The impact of guns during the mining days

By Forrest Whitman

There were a variety of guns around the mining camps and mining towns along the Front Range. Gilpin County was typical of how each new type of gun affected life in the 1860s (more…)

30 years ago – September 23, 1983

  Clark School will be listed with a realtor and placed on the market immediately. After receiving no response from the Gilpin County commissioners who had asked for more (more…)

30 years ago – September 16, 1983

The old and crumbling walls of the Stroehle building in Black Hawk helped slow a runaway pick-up before it crashed into the Bull Durham building Tuesday. The south wall (more…)

30 Years Ago – September 8, 1983

Gilpin County voters will go to the polls Tuesday and cast their ballots either for or against a one percent county sales and use tax. (more…)

But which ones are good to eat?

By Forrest Whitman

We’re coming to the end of a good mushroom hunting summer. There will still be some mushroom blooms, though, and avid hunters haven’t put away their mushroom knives just (more…)

30 Years Ago – September 2, 1983

  Arden Larson, president and majority stockholder of Saratoga, claims that, although no gold is yet ready for shipment to refinery, the last bugs have been worked out in a (more…)

Did our local big union strikes benefit the workers?

By Forrest Whitman

Labor Unions have long claimed that they raised the standard of living for the American worker. Labor Day speeches make that point today. Economists tend to agree. They often (more…)

30 Years Ago – August 26, 1983

The Seventh Annual Central City Jazz Festival provided a feast for music lovers last weekend. The three-day celebration of jazz featured bands from all over the country, as (more…)

Events like the Gilpin County Fair featured boxing

By Forrest Whitman

The Gilpin County Fair draws most of the community. There was no fair back in the mining days and there was no rodeo either. Public events that drew throngs of people in (more…)

We’ll miss Lew

By Forrest Whitman

Gilpin County will miss Lew Cady. Leslie (his wife) and his family will miss him most of all. There will be plenty of reminiscences in these pages, and those close to him will deal (more…)

30 Years Ago – August 19, 1983

  The squatters along U.S. 6 in Jefferson County are going to have to leave. Monday, the JeffCo Commissioners approved a parking ban for the canyon the effect of which will be to (more…)