Tag: history
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Was the root beer float invented in Colorado?
Here’s how the story goes: In 1893 at a Cripple Creek brewery, a wandering entrepreneur named Frank J. Wisner was experimenting with carbonated water, roots and sweeteners that did not quite achieve the sweetness he sought. Perhaps a scoop of vanilla ice cream would do the trick. “And there it was,” says history writer Linda…
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Fort Carson’s museum slated for potential closure
The 4th Infantry Division Museum outside Fort Carson’s gate 1 is slated for closure as the Army Museum Enterprise shutters museums nationally. The enterprise is expected to close museums at other bases, including Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort Knox in Kentucky and Fort Drum in New York, among others according to a list obtained by…
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Happy Trails: Appreciating the new and old at Monument Valley Park
Monument Valley Park loop In a hidden pocket of Monument Valley Park, tucked against a hillside away from this greenway at the edge of downtown Colorado Springs, a colorful wall of rock rises. This is the Geologic Column proclaimed upon the park’s opening in 1907 — lines of granite, sandstone and limestone spanning time and…
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Where legends are made: A history of golf at The Broadmoor
To follow the history of golf at The Broadmoor is to follow the rise of one of the game’s most legendary sites. And it’s to follow the rise of some of the game’s most legendary players. Yes, just as this turf is pristine and scenic, it is also storied. Here’s a look back over the…
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U.S. Senior Open brings another summer of golf magic to The Broadmoor
In fall of 2015, a special occasion returned Jack Nicklaus to The Broadmoor’s golf clubhouse. He was chatting with a group of hosts and admirers that included Jack Damioli, the hotel’s president and CEO. They were upstairs, looking out at the 18th hole. “He looked down and said, ‘Let’s walk out there,’” Damioli recalls. So…
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A century ago, ‘sin city’ Ramona rose at the entrance to Ute Pass
One day in the late 1990s, Colorado Springs history buff David Swint came across an old, dusty mug with a curious inscription. “Heidelberg Inn, Ramona, Colo.” Where was Ramona, Swint wondered. Ramona, it turns out, was a former town within his current town. On Colorado Springs’ west side, around Thorndale Park and the neighborhood off…
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Soul of Sopris: Remembering a Colorado town now under water
One day in 1970, Giuseppe Incitti took a pencil to paper and grieved the loss of his southern Colorado home. “Consider the town of Sopris finished,” he wrote, translated from his native Italian. “It will be buried under water.” The dam would rise, Trinidad Lake would fill, and Sopris would be but a memory. The…
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4 more spots added to ‘endangered places’ list in Colorado
Colorado has four more “endangered places,” as identified by a nonprofit keeping a list. That’s Colorado Preservation Inc., which for 28 years has annually added projects to its Endangered Places Program. The four picks this year: the childhood home of a Hollywood hero; a town hall in the mountains; one building in rural Colorado recalling…
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Consider the cannibal: Could Colorado’s infamous Alfred Packer be innocent?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At a cemetery on the outskirts of Denver, beside an old tombstone, one might sit and think at the bench under the long, sagging limbs of a dark, towering spruce. “Very shady and cold. It’s…