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New Batch of Palisade Tribunes

Now Digitized

PALISADE, CO (November 8, 2024) – An astonishing 4,154 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, 4,154 issues – beginning with the first edition June 6, 1903, and all issues in our collection through December 25, 1986 – 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.

December History Talk

The Palisade Historical Society’s monthly history talk at the Ordinary Fellow Winery, 202 Peach Avenue in Palisade, will be Joe Zeni talking about his new book, “Promise,” which is a story about Harold Aupperle and the Grand Valley at the turn of the 20th Century and World War I.

The book describes the exponential changes in the turn of the last century in Western Colorado and in the Balkans during World War I where Harold served in the ambulance service.

Joe is a retired educator and historian, as well as a 3rd generation resident of Grand Junction. He became interested in the life story of Harold Aupperle from neighbors who knew the family. Harold Aupperle’s father, David, was instrumental in getting the Government Highline Canal built which provides water to five irrigation canals serving fruit orchards in Palisade as well as for agriculture and residential use stretching through the Grand Valley to Mack.

The talk will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 12th 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.

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