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January History Talk

PALISADE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAM
Early Days of Cross Orchards by Matt Darling
Thursday, January 16th – 5 p.m. at The Ordinary Fellow Winery

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, as he shares stories about the early days of this Historic Site and the fruit industry’s challenges in the valley.
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 talk will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 16th 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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Colorado Gives Day

Just because we’re ✨old✨ doesn’t mean we can’t try something ✨new!✨

For the very first time ever, The Palisade Historical Society will be participating in Colorado Gives Day! (There’s a learning curve to all of this, so please be patient with us! What we lack in experience, we make up for in enthusiasm!) LOL 🤣

💖 What is Colorado Gives Day?
💖 Do you like to support local causes?
💖 Would you like to support us?

Colorado Gives Day is this Tuesday, December 10, 2024, but you can donate NOW!

The Colorado Gives Foundation is an easy way for nonprofits to fundraise online and an easy way for donors to do so.

Check out our fundraising page here or by clicking on the photo above.

The Palisade Historical Society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and communicating the unique history of Palisade, CO, and we can’t do what we do without supporters like you.

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Join us! You can be a part of the Colorado statewide giving movement. It only takes a little to make a big impact.

 

Watch Palisade Peaches on Rocky Mountain PBS!

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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.

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