What better place to build a swimming pool than on Water Street? Meeker’s first pools were natural hot water pools outside town. Our first pool in town was located at Third and Water Street. According to the Herald issue of Aug. 11, 2012, it was built in 1957 where the[Read More…]
Tag: Meeker History
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 17
Special to the Herald Times White River Agency, Colorado January 13, 1879 Sir: I beg leave to call your attention to the fact that if I should succeed, as I think I certainly shall, in getting the Indians to engage in agriculture, and by this means more and more keep[Read More…]
Guest Column: The first agency
This June a new sign was placed along RBC County Road 8. If you are traveling east toward Buford and Trappers Lake you will pass right by it. Look for it just past the 6-mile marker on the right-hand side. It is worth the time. The sign is a culmination[Read More…]
Letters from History, No. 16
Special to the Herald Times Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs, Jan. 7, 1879. Sir: In reply to your letter of the 19th ultimo, asking authority to buy 2,000 paper sacks for use in making issues, you are informed that the sacks have been ordered shipped to you[Read More…]
Days Gone By Sept 28th, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Rio Blanco County should be represented at the mountain and plain festival with some kind of a float. A chunk of coal weighing a ton or so (if nothing else) would be quite the advertisement for this section. “Broncho John” Martin had a[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No 15
Editor’s Note: For those of you who are keeping track of this series, we inadvertently skipped a week in numbering. There was no No. 10. Our apologies for the confusion. White River Agency, Colorado. Jan. 6, 1879. Sir: I am convinced that, with the working teams on hand, I shall[Read More…]
Guest Column: Sweet Sisters
Headline in the Steamboat Pilot May 22, 1947: RANGELY OFFICER WANTS LARGE SUM FOR ALLEGED LIBEL. Town Marshal John Howlett alleged in the complaint that an article published in the Rangely News was libelous and “brought great shame, humiliation and mortification to the plaintiff.” The article in question was published[Read More…]
Days Gone By: September 21st, 2023
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The railroad accident referred to in last week’s issue turned out to have been as bad as at first reported. It happened just below New Castle. An eastern bound Midland freight train and a Rio Grande passenger, both running at the usual speed,[Read More…]
Letters from History, No. 14
White River Agency, Colorado. January 6, 1876. Sir: It is reported to me that the relations between some of our Indians and certain white men on Snake River, at and around Perkin’s store, are disgraceful, and so leading to great demoralization. For I am told that there are several Indian[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 13
Special to the Herald Times Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Jan. 2, 1879. Sir: I have the honor to request that authority be granted for the purchase by this office, at the lowest attainable rates, of 2,000 25-pound paper-sacks, to be used by Agent Meeker, of the[Read More…]
Guest Column: Hazen’s Daughters
By ED PECK George Hazen’s daughters did well also in Meeker. Miss Agnes Hazen was teaching at the Mesa School on May 4, 1889. Her sister, Grace Evangeline Hazen Adams, also taught school in Axial about 1892. According to the April 7, 1894, Meeker Herald, Agnes was the assistant principal[Read More…]
Horsepower and history combine for new local OHV tours
MEEKER | “It’s pretty cool to think about, what did this valley look like before people were here? Because it wasn’t really that long ago,” said Andrea Gianinetti, local business owner and history enthusiast, describing her own interest in local history and how it sparked an idea to combine historical[Read More…]
