Progress on New Mines Housing
Photo by Patrick Klein
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Sunday, Sep. 8th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Day Out With Thomas at the Colorado Railroad Museum
- All day - Church Services
- 9AM-2PM - Country Market
- 9:30-11:30AM - Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
- 10AM-1PM - Applewood Valley United Methodist Church Block Party
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 2-4PM - Sunday at the Museum - 150+ Years of Sewing and Quilts
- 2PM - School of Rock - The Musical
- 5-9PM - Board Game Night
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
9AM-2PM Country Market
Join us for the inaugural season of the Country Market at The Golden Hayride Outpost on Sundays May-October. Visit the Market for fresh produce, local vendors, food trucks, refreshments, and community fun!
The Country Market at The Golden Hayride Outpost features a variety of local vendors throughout the season, with several vendors including:
- Heinie’s Market fresh produce and canned items
- Mac Nation serving up delicious mac and cheese bowls
- Old town Hatter
- Big Mambo bakery
- TATtered-N-Torn Custom Trucker Hats
- Demalt Farms Orgnic Produce
- Nancy Notable Gluten Free Nibbles
PLUS a rotating list of other amazing local vendors on varying dates!
We have indoor and outdoor seating to enjoy your meal and relax with a beverage after browsing the marketplace and live music from 10-2.
We hope to see you there! More information
2PM Sunday at the Museum: 150+ Years of Sewing and Quilts @ The Quilt Museum
Lisa Selzler is remarkable at fixing very old antique sewing machines. She will share the history of over 150 years of sewing machines and how their appearance impacted the world of quilts! Lisa likes to have an interactive discussion - so be ready to participate and even try out a couple older machines that might remind you of Grandma's House.
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
200 Violet Street, Suite 240 (map)
Neighborhood Block Party @ Applewood Valley United Methodist
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Worship will begin at 10:00 am with a Block Party to Follow from 11:30 a.m. to1:00 p.m.
We'll BBQ hamburgers and hot dogs. Bring a side dish to share! We'll have games and a Kona Shave Ice Truck.
More information
Applewood Valley United Methodist Church
2035 Ellis Street (map)
4-7:30PM Sunday Swing Supper Club
A special evening for fans of big band and swing dancing at the historical Buffalo Rose in downtown Golden. Doors open and delicious food service starts at 4:00. Learn to swing dance with a free dance lesson 4:00-5:00! Then enjoy entertaining live BIG BAND JAZZ MUSIC from 5:00 to 7:30 by the Flatirons Jazz Orchestra - featuring Deborah Stafford. Dance or just enjoy the great Swing Era music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and more played on one of Colorado great historic stages. All ages welcome.
Dance or just listen to the great Swing Era music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and more.
$20 online / $25 at the door. All ages welcome – under 18 with a guardian.
Tickets
Buffalo Rose
1119 Washington Avenue (map)
Live Music for Sunday, Sep. 8th
- 4-7PM Jonny Sterling @ Buffalo Rose
Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage) - 4-7:30PM Sunday Swing Supper Club
A special evening for fans of big band and swing dancing at the historical Buffalo Rose in downtown Golden. Doors open and delicious food service starts at 4:00. Learn to swing dance with a free dance lesson 4:00-5:00! Then enjoy entertaining live BIG BAND JAZZ MUSIC from 5:00 to 7:30 by the Flatirons Jazz Orchestra - featuring Deborah Stafford. Dance or just enjoy the great Swing Era music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and more played on one of Colorado great historic stages. All ages welcome.
Dance or just listen to the great Swing Era music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and more.
$20 online / $25 at the door. All ages welcome – under 18 with a guardian.
Tickets - More Live Music
3-7PM 2nd Time Around @ Wrigley’s
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: The Parfet Connection
George (G.W.) Parfet and Family – Golden History Museum collection
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Brick-clay mining was the domain of the Parfet family for 124 years beginning with George (G.W.) Parfet (1859-1924) in 1877 and ending with his heirs in 2002. At the ripe age of 19 years old, G.W. Parfet, Sr. took his knowledge of underground coal mining and applied it to clay mining on land in the Laramie Formation at the end of today’s 12th Street. Initially called the Parfet #1 or the White Ash Clay Mine, it eventually became known as the Rubey Mine due to financing from H.M. Rubey and W.S. Woods on land leased from the Colorado Limited Company owned by W.A.H. Loveland.
After mining coal for others as a teen, Parfet now had a clay mine of his own.216 Not limiting himself to brick-clay, G.W. Parfet’s “empire” soon included fire-clay mines. He operated the Santa Fe Mine in the Dakota Formation along Eagle Ridge, and the Apex 10, South Golden, and Parfet mines on the Dakota Hogback between Lena Gulch and south of I-70 (Fig. 79). Principal customers were the Cambria Brick and Tile Company in Golden (13th and East Street) and the Denver Sewer Pipe and Brick Company. Continuing his legacy, his son (G.W. Parfet, Jr., 1889-1940), grandson (William “Bill” G. Parfet, 1918-1998), and great-grandson (William “Chip” G. Parfet, Jr. 1946-present) operated four Laramie brick-clay mines in addition to the Rubey Mine: the Rockwell, Rubey Standard, Apex and North Apex, and Green Mountain Mines (Fig. 79).
While clay from the Parfet-family mines in south Golden was mined out by 1953 217, the family continued clay mining in the Laramie Formation in central Golden until August 2002, a mining legacy of 125 years (1877-2002)!
Over time, the many Parfet-family mine-sites were developed for housing and government buildings or reclaimed for recreation and open space. The worked-out Rubey Mine was deeded to the School of Mines in 1964 in exchange for clay-bearing acreage further south. The Rockwell Mine was donated to the City of Golden in 2002 to be used for part of the Fossil Trace Golf Course (Fig. 85). Part of the Rubey Standard Mine was sold to Jefferson County as the site for the Laramie Building, completed in 2005. Another worked-out part of the Rubey Standard Mine became The Splash Water Park, owned by the City of Golden. The North Apex Mine was developed as a mobile-home park, whereas the Apex Mine became a Jefferson County landfill, operated from 1958 to 1980. In 2007 the landfill was reclaimed for the Rooney Road Athletic Complex.
216 The Golden Kiwanis Club established Parfet Park in 1929 on the southeast corner of Washington Avenue and 10th Street in honor of its first president George W. Parfet, Sr. Parfet Park is the oldest park in Golden and is also the site of the Boston Company’s 1859 first log building in Golden. Also, as a major environmental and olfactory improvement, the Park replaced the town dump.
217 Bill (William G.) Parfet recounted the post-1940 clay operations in a 1977 interview by Bill Ryder of the Colorado Railroad Museum (Parfet and Ryder, 1977).
This was an excerpt from Golden Rocks: The Geology and Mining History of Golden, Colorado by Donna Anderson and Paul Haseman.
The authors have granted me permission to reprint excerpts, but I recommend that you read the whole book. You can buy a copy from the Lulu website, borrow one from the library, or read it online for free, courtesy of the School of Mines library.
Many thanks to the Golden Rotary Club for sponsoring for sponsoring Golden History Moments for the month of September.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 62, with temperatures rising to around 65 overnight. West wind around 8 mph.
Sunday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 3pm and 5pm. Mostly sunny. High near 85, with temperatures falling to around 83 in the afternoon. North wind around 8 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62. West northwest wind 6 to 9 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 62°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 87°F
Monday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 63°F
Tuesday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 84°F
Tuesday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 61°F
Wednesday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 85°F
Wednesday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 60°F
Thursday: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 85°F
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 56°F
Friday: Sunny, 81°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 56°F
Saturday: Sunny, 82°F
News About Golden - September 8, 2024
Missing man last seen in Golden
By Aspen Andrews
11 News
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - The CBI said 31-year-old Robert Garcia Jr. was last seen on Aug. 16 in Golden... Read more...
Mines football clears West Texas A&M 41-13 in season opener
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
As running back Landon Walker would argue, the biggest takeaway from Colorado School of Mines’ season opener is: “Don’t sleep on the Orediggers.”
After a long preseason, the nationally ranked Mines football team finally took the field Sept. 5 against West Texas A&M. The Orediggers scored on their opening drive and never looked back, ultimately corralling the Buffaloes 41-13... Read more...
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