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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Thursday, Oct. 10th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - TriceraTOTs
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 9-10:30AM - Community Marketing Stakeholder Committee
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10-10:30AM - Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
- 10AM-12PM - Medicare Workshop
- 3-4:30PM - Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic
- 4:30-6:30PM - Grand Opening - Grampsas Pickball Courts
- 5-6PM - Golden American Legion Dinner
- 5PM - Meet & Mingle Community Gathering
- 5-9PM - Bentgate Mountaineering's Ski Season Kick-Off Party
- 6PM - Run Club
- 6-8PM - Baby Goats & Cookies
- 6:30-7:45PM - Skills to Unite as Community
- 6:30PM - Economic Development Commission (EdComm) Meeting
- 7PM - Ferguson Ito Duo
- 7-9PM - Friends of Mines Museum - Speaker Series
- 7:30PM - Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
9-10:30AM Community Marketing Stakeholder Committee @ City Hall
Community Marketing will discuss plans for this year's Olde Golden Holidays. The dates are:
- December 6th - Candlelight Walk
- December 14th - Holiday Parade
- December 21st - Jingle on the Avenue
They will hire a local firm for $5,000 to coordinate the Candlelight Walk and Holiday Parade.
The holiday lights will remain up through February 15th.
There will be many other events, as organized by the businesses and cultural organizations.
The total budget for community marketing is $645,421. The budget appears on p. 27 of the meeting packet.
- Meeting Agenda
- Watch the meeting streaming live starting at 9AM
- Attend the meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers - 911 10th Street - (map)
- Send comments on any of the following topics to visitgolden@cityofgolden.net
- Provide in-person comment during the meeting, at 9AM.
5PM Hamburger Night @ the American Legion
Visit the American Legion Post tonight for a dinner!
Plain Hamburger $9.00/with Fries
Cheeseburger $10/with Fries
Onion Rings $1/extra
The public is always welcome .
American Legion Post 21
500 9th Street (map)
6:30PM Economic Development Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The Economic Development Commission (EDComm) will review a survey that the city conducted among Golden businesses (110 participants) and non-profit organizations (30 participants). Businesses said the most helpful thing the city could do is to assist with marketing and event promotion,and the second-most helpful thing would be providing networking opportunities with other businesses. The non-profit organizations sometimes attend the non-profit round table. Their #1 source of information about "support programs" is the Golden Civic Foundation newsletter.
- Meeting Agenda
- Watch the meeting streaming live starting at 6:30PM
- Attend the meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers - 911 10th Street - (map)
- Send comments on any of the following topics to edcomm@cityofgolden.net
- Provide in-person comment during the meeting, at 6:30PM.
7-9PM Friends of Mines Museum Lecture: Xuebaoding
Join the Friends of Mines Museum of Earth Science for their bi-monthly speaker series, featuring special guest, professor and owner of the White Raven Mine, Dr. Markus Raschke.
Program title: “Xuebaoding – mining above the clouds at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau.”
Light refreshments will be served. Talk will be hosted in the classroom across the hall from the museum, GRL201. Reservations not required. Free of cost. Non-members are also welcome!
More information
Colorado School of Mines Museum
1310 Maple Street (map)
Live Music for Thursday, Oct. 10th
5-8PM Josh Blackburn @ The Golden Mill
7PM Ferguson Ito Duo @ CSM Campus
Performing works by Piazzolla, Beaser, and others Free admission
Presented by Mines Concert Series and the Hennebach Program
Colorado School of Mines - Green Center
924 16th Street (map)
- More Live Music
6PM Digg @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Golden Streets Formerly Named for Women Leaders
By Paul Haseman - Guest Historian
At one time there were many streets named for Golden women. In 1904 those names were removed and the “women” streets were renamed mostly after trees. In any event and as part of honoring these women (a few listed below), Golden Public Works this past week installed commemorative signage on several streets – Elm, Maple and Illinois.
These former street names speak to the history of a growing city. Golden was first platted in 1859 by F. W. Beebe, showing few streets. Later the survey was expanded with a recorded 1863 plat map done by Edward Berthoud and his Union College fraternity brother, Silas Burt. Silas had married Nettie Ferrell in 1855 and Edward Berthoud married her sister, Helen, a year later. One would expect that if you are naming streets, you would name them in part after friends and family. With this in mind, here is a short list:
Helen Berthoud
Helen Street honored Helen S. Berthoud (nee Ferrell). It is now today's Maple Street on the Mines campus. Her parents, John and Jeanette Ferrell, came Golden as early settlers in 1859. They built and operated Golden’s first hotel, the one-story Miners Hotel, at now Washington and 11th Street where Clear Creek Commons now stands. A year later, in 1860 Edward and Helen joined Helen’s parent in Golden. Helen instantly made a major impact to the newborn community, bringing civility and kindness while she assisted in the operation of her parents’ Miners Hotel. And in 1862, when her husband answered the call to duty as a Union Army officer, Helen went with him. She served as a field nurse during Capt. Berthoud’s combat operations with the Second Colorado Volunteer Infantry in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri from 1862-1865 ministering to the wounded in camps and field hospitals. This began her legacy of service to the troops, continuing after the war with her service as an officer with the Golden chapter of the Women's Relief Corps, W.R.C. No. 5, which was an adjunct of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), similar to today’s American Legion. Helen Berthoud also was a early member of Golden’s Calvary Church.
In keeping with her commitments to her church and the W.R.C., Helen proposed a group home for indigent and disabled soldiers and sailors. This goal was fulfilled shortly after Helen’s untimely death at 56 on 2 August 1887, when Edward Berthoud donated a house and lot at the northwest corner of 17th & Jackson to establish the “Helen Berthoud Hospital” to serve as a home for indigent and disabled servicemen, who have served in the Civil War. The State soon took over operation of this home and relocated it to Homelake, CO. The Home continues today as the Colorado State Veterans Center, listed today on the State Historic Register.
Jeanette Ferrell
Jeannette Street is today's Illinois Street in the middle of the Mines campus. As noted above, Jeannette was the mother of Helen Berthoud and Jeannette (Nettie) Sarah Burt. Becoming ill, Jeanette returned to the East in 1862 and died that year. As renamed in 1864, Jeanette Street became Mary Street and in 1904 it became Illinois Street.
Mary Clow Boyd
Mary Boyd (1815- 1871) was among Golden’s first citizens, arriving in June 1859. With her husband, future Jeffco Judge and Commissioner Theodore Boyd, they built Golden’s first private residence. In later June, Mary, a devoted Christian woman, attended Golden's first church service in the Ford Brothers saloon tent, where she and other town ladies sat in front of the colorful roulette table that was the makeshift pulpit. They were "surrounded by a motley crowd of pistol-bedecked men" who were tough miners, teamsters, gamblers, and more. Mary and the other ladies began singing loud and clear and were soon joined by the whole group of men in the tent. When the Mountain Fever epidemic later struck the region, Mary became the founding president of the Ladies Samaritan Society, Jeffco’s first medical organization, to care for the sick. In 1867, she became a founding member of Calvary Church in Golden. Illinois Street was originally platted only north of Clear Creek, but the 1904 ordinance extended it south of the Creek becoming the main Mines campus street. As Illinois St already existed, the City’s renaming ordinance omitted the removal of Mary Street.
Jeanette (Nettie) Burt (nee Ferrell)
Nettie Street is today’s Elm Street, also on the Mines campus. Born Jeannette Sarah Ferrell, she is the daughter of Jeannette and sister of Helen. In 1855, she married Silas Burt, a friend of Edward Berthoud, who a year later married Nettie’s sister, Helen. The two sisters and their husbands, living in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, joined the sisters’ parents, the Ferrells, in 1860 in Golden. Nettie also worked in the Miner’s Hotel, but with her mother’s illness, she returned east with her parents in 1862.
Kate Ferrell
Kate Street is mid-block between the Golden Welcome Center and the Fire Dept off 10th St. Today it is the entryway east off 10th to the GPD and GFD parking lot. It was named in the 1863 plat and, although never formally removed, it is no longer listed as a city street. In any event, a commemorative marker now shows the site of Kate Street. Kate was a niece of Edward and Helen Berthoud and granddaughter of Jeannette Ferrell. Kate was 4 years old when Edward Berthoud completed the town survey.
City Ordinance Changing Street Names
Colorado Transcript - July 7, 1904
“Section 1. That the names of the streets mentioned in this Section, situated in the City of Golden, shall be, and they are hereby changed as follows:* * * *
Junction Street is changed to First Street.
Main Street is changed to Second Street.
Park Street is changed to Third Street.
Golden Street is changed to Fourth Street.
Gregory Street is changed to Fifth Street.
Fayette Street is changed to Sixth Street.
King Street is changed to Seventh Street.
Wall Street is changed to Eighth Street.
Garrison Street is changed to Ninth Street.
Platte Street is changed to Tenth Street.
First Street is changed to Eleventh Street.
Second street is changed to Twelfth street.
Third street is changed to Thirteenth street.
Fourth street is changed to Fourteenth street.
Fifth street is changed to Fifteenth street.
Sixth street is changed to Sixteenth street.
Seventh street is changed to Seventeenth street.
Eighth street is changed to Eighteenth street.
Ninth. street is changed to Nineteenth street.
Tenth street is changed to Twentieth street.
Eleventh street is changed to Twenty-First street.
Twelfth street is changed to Twenty-Second St.
Thirteenth street is changed to Twenty-Third St.
Fourteenth street is changed to Twenty-Fourth St
Helen street is changed to Maple Street.
Nettie street is changed to Elm Street.
Esther street is changed to Birch Street.
Weather
Overnight: Clear, with a low around 57. West wind around 8 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. High near 81, with temperatures falling to around 78 in the afternoon. North northwest wind around 8 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. West wind 5 to 8 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly Cloudy, 57°F
Friday: Partly Sunny, 73°F
Friday Night: Partly Cloudy, 54°F
Saturday: Partly Sunny, 81°F
Saturday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 52°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny, 73°F
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 52°F
Columbus Day: Sunny, 76°F
Monday Night: Mostly Clear, 50°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 72°F
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 49°F
Wednesday: Sunny, 73°F
News About Golden - October 10, 2024
Golden boys soccer continues shutout winning streak
By Dennis Pleuss
Colorado Preps
ARVADA — It has been just over three weeks since Golden’s boys soccer team has allowed a goal.
The Demons ran their shutout winning streak to five games Tuesday at the North Area Athletic Complex with a 10-0 victory over Conifer... Read more...
City of Golden Weekly Digest
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New Native American arbor a space for ceremony, celebration in Golden History Park
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
All along Clear Creek, even blocks away, passersby could hear continual drumming from the Golden History Park.
Every hour, they told the story of Colorado’s first peoples — how they were here for thousands of years, how they are still here today, and how they will remain here for many generations to come... Read more...
Who are the female pioneers behind Golden’s new historic street signs?
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
More than a century after their streets were renamed, Golden is recognizing the female pioneers three city streets were originally named after.
Over the week of Oct. 1, city crews installed historic street name signs along Illinois, Maple and Elm streets recognizing their original designations as Mary, Helen and Nettie streets, respectively... Read more...
Avenue Flashes: Spooky season activities in Golden
By John Akal
Golden Transcript
Now that October is here, things get really crazy around my house. To say that we are really into Halloween around here would be a gross understatement. My wife, Lisa, is an artist and she makes all kinds of crazy things that she sells at different venues. For most of the year it’s a lot of art for art’s sake, no particular theme, but for Halloween, all the stops come out... Read more...
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