Photo of the early days of the Meeker Hotel from www.historymeeker.com Once more, the Dunbar family in this edition are NOT related to any Dunbar family in Meeker today. We covered the dramatic death of Charles Dunbar last week. What I didn’t know when I started my research, is where[Read More…]
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Days Gone By: January 18, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Nothing succeeds like the success of some people’s failures. Smallpox is quite the epidemic in various parts of the state, but as yet there are no cases in Meeker. Rifle, however, is said to be afflicted. Irons for the new Miller creek bridge were[Read More…]
Days Gone By: January 4, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago In expressing himself to the voters the candidate should prepay the freight if he expects to get there. The ice harvest is now in full blast. The weather was cold and disagreeable during the past week, the thermometer being generally below zero. Meeker Herald[Read More…]
The sound of history come to life
The resonant, low frequencies rumbling up and down County Road 11’s nooks and crannies on a Thursday in December could easily have been mistaken for the sonic boom of a fighter jet, or loud thunder claps traveling outward from a lightning strike to those unaware of their source. Fortunately, it[Read More…]
Milk Creek Battle: Stories you don’t know, Part 2
One hundred and forty-four years ago men fought and died at Milk Creek. Some men were white, some black, some red and brown. Regardless of their ethnic differences, when their blood soaked the ground, they became one, inseparable, and indivisible. In the conference room at the library in Meeker, Colorado,[Read More…]
Days Gone By: December 28, 2023
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Last night the record for the winter, so far, was made with the government thermometer registered 28 below zero. The Herald didn’t have a reporter at the theater last Wednesday night to witness the rendition of “The Sunny South, or the Moonshiners Revenge,” but[Read More…]
Days Gone By: August 10, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Several wagon loads of fruit have come in from Grand River within the last week or two, but the quality is not what it was a year ago. The apple crop of Garfield county bids fair to be an abundant one this year,[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 7
The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army officers from 1874-1879. The letters[Read More…]
Days Gone By: August 3, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Two trout poachers, Charles Harrison and Edward Gorman, were nailed at Trappers Lake, on Tuesday, with 77 pounds of trout in their possession, by a Glenwood deputy game warden. They pleaded guilty, and now languish in jail in default payment of $67.50 fine[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 6 Part 2
Special to the Herald Times The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army[Read More…]
The history behind LO7
The story begins in the fall of 1883, Utah. William B. Loring, a back East gent, sent an outfit of cowboys to Utah to bring back 3,300 head of cattle. The crew took time to brand all of them with the new brand of LO7. The brand was the left[Read More…]
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