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April History Talk &
Palisade Birthday Party!
PALISADE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAM
Celebrating Palisade’s 1904 Birthday
Friday, April 4th – 5pm at The Ordinary Fellow Winery
The Palisade Historical Society’s monthly history talk at the Ordinary Fellow Winery, 202 Peach Avenue in Palisade, will celebrate Palisade’s official birthday 121 years after it was incorporated on April 4, 1904. Palisade was already a vibrant, progressive community attracting pioneer orchardists, coal miners, inventors, entrepreneurs, and merchants seeking a better life. Palisade was a business hub and these people paved the way for Palisade’s continuing successes.
The Birthday Party and History Talk will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 4th at The Ordinary Fellow Winery and will include photos of early Palisade and the popular “Palisade, Colorado – 1904” video created by the Historical Society with creative help from long time Historical Society member Gayle Madden.
A cake from Slice O’ Life Bakery will be a special way to celebrate the Town’s birthday event. Come early for a slice of cake and to get a good seat.
This program is open to the public in a relaxed and comfortable setting for people to learn about Palisade’s unique history and enjoy a glass of wine. The tasting room opens at noon, so come early. There is no admission fee, but donations are appreciated.
March History Talk
PALISADE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HISTORY TALK
Matt Darling – “This Old Barn” Saving Cross Orchards
Thursday, March 13th – 5 p.m.
The Palisade Historical Society’s monthly history talk at the Ordinary Fellow Winery, 202 Peach Avenue in Palisade, will be Matt Darling, Curator of Cross Orchards Historic Site. He will begin the History Talk by playing a 25-minute video entitled, “This Old Barn,” which talks about how the Museums of Western Colorado acquired Cross Orchards. “This Old Barn” is a treasure and was made in the 1980s, soon after the purchase of Cross Orchards. Then Matt will talk about all the work the Museum has done to Cross over the years.
The Cross Orchards at its peak was an agricultural showcase and one of the largest orchards in the State. The three oldest buildings on the property, the barn/packing shed, bunkhouse and manager’s house are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The History Talk will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 13th at The Ordinary Fellow Winery. This program is open to the public in a relaxed and comfortable setting for people to learn about Palisade’s unique history and enjoy a glass of wine. The tasting room opens at noon, so come early. There is no admission fee, but donations are appreciated.
Upcoming History Talks
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Watch Palisade Peaches on Rocky Mountain PBS!
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New Batch of Palisade Tribunes
Now Digitized
PALISADE, CO (February 2024) – An astonishing 4,361 issues of The Palisade Tribune are now in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection database!
One of the most important on-going projects of the Palisade Historical Society is preserving archival copies of The Palisade Tribune and making them available online for searching and browsing. The Palisade Tribune was Palisade’s newspaper of record from June 1903 until it closed in March 2014. Thanks to generous donors and support from the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, 4,361 issues – beginning with the first edition June 6, 1903, and all issues in our collection through December 27, 1990 – are now on the Colorado Historic Newspapers and Plains to Peaks newspaper databases!
The Palisade Historical Society continues to raise funds to get more of Palisade’s newspaper of record digitized and online. These issues mean the CHNC database now has over 4.7 million digitized pages of Colorado newspapers! This is a wonderful resource of Palisade history! You can search by name or subject or browse entire pages for articles of interest. The Palisade Tribune is digitally available on the CHNC site with over 785 individual newspapers titles. The CHNC is a service of the Colorado State Library. In addition to Palisade news, these Tribunes feature columns from nearby communities, including Mt. Lincoln, Rapid Creek, Cameo, Plateau Valley, Collbran, and Mesa, as well as East Orchard Mesa, Clifton, Fruitvale, and even Mack and Loma. Some of the early 1950’s issues also include copies of The Fruita Times and Plateau Valley newspapers.
Above, we have a Historic Newspaper tab with a direct link to searching the database.
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