Dear Editor: Come out to the Coal Creek School on July 25 at 2 p.m. and join the Rio Blanco County Historical Society at their quarterly meeting and see how they have preserved our area history. The school is located at 617 County Rd. 6, about six miles east of[Read More…]
Tag: Coal Creek School
OLD GLORY FLIES HIGH AT COAL CREEK …
With the assistance of White River Electric Association, the Rural Schools Committees of the Rio Blanco County Historical Society installed a flag pole at Coal Creek school. You can visit the school and check out the new flag, as well as all the other renovations the committee has completed, at [Read More…]
School still in session at Coal Creek
MEEKER | Stuffed animals, old toys, games and dolls have taken over Coal Creek School. Stop by and peek in the windows and see who is attending school. Check out the privy/coal shed and the horse shed and leave your name on the chalkboard. It is fun to see who[Read More…]
Coal Creek School update: May
MEEKER | Coal Creek School was filled with the sounds of children once again. Over 70 Meeker Elementary School Second graders, teachers, parents, grandparents and smaller siblings visited the school. They enjoyed outside games, inspecting the buildings and participating in some daily activities that children would have done in the early[Read More…]
ON THE MAP …
Rio Blanco County presented the Coal Creek School with a replica of a 1917 U.S. map on Friday, Sept. 7. Kay Bivens (left) and Janet Clark (right) with the Rio Blanco County Historical Society, hold up the map while second graders from Ridgeview Elementary in Moffat County look on. The[Read More…]
County, historical society receive state award for preservation of Coal Creek School
MEEKER | On Jan. 31, 2018, at History Colorado in Denver the 2018 Stephen H. Hart Award for Historic Preservation was presented to the Rio Blanco County and Rio Blanco County Historical Society for the restoration of Coal Creek School. The room was packed with a couple hundred people. History Colorado[Read More…]
Art exhibit at Coal Creek School tomorrow and Saturday
MEEKER | Mary “Maym” Strang Cunningham’s original artwork is the subject of an exhibit at the Coal Creek School Friday, Nov. 17 from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be live music, food, printmaking demonstrations and more. For more information, call Maym[Read More…]
Coal Creek School art exhibit
Meeker | There will be an art exhibit and open house at the Coal Creek School (617 CR 6) on Friday, Nov. 17 from 5-8 p.m. and on Saturday, Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The art exhibit will feature a diverse body of original artwork by Mary[Read More…]
Coal Creek School art exhibit
MEEKER | There will be an art exhibit and open house at the Coal Creek School on Friday, Nov. 17 from 5-8 p.m. and on Saturday, Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The art exhibit will feature a diverse body of original artwork by Mary “Maym” Strang Cunningham,[Read More…]
Morlan receives plaque from Forest Service for road and bridge help
RBC | At the regular county commissioners meeting held in Meeker on Monday, the commissioners heard thanks from Rural School Committee member Janet Clark for their help with the restoration of the Coal Creek school. Clark also told the commissioners that their committee has been awarded a Stephen H. Hart[Read More…]
Letter: Meeker should be proud of its work to preserve Coal Creek School
Dear Editor: The Rural School Project team would like to thank all the people who braved the wet, windy weather to attend the Coal Creek School 125th celebration on Sept. 23. Good food, wonderful music and many shared memories were exchanged during the day. On that first full day of[Read More…]
Coal Creek School celebration resumes a century-old tradition
By Doc Watson Special to the Herald Times RBC | The Coal Creek School restoration story the Herald Times has been following culminated on Saturday, Sept. 23 with the 125th anniversary of the dedicatory ball at the school in 1892. Carrying on the tradition of a century ago, participants brought[Read More…]
