Organizations
Collection for organization entities.
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- Grand Junction Women's Networking (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- An organization of women formed to foster empowering personal and professional relationships among the women of the Grand Valley. Early members included Tina Jelinek, Julie Ancell, and Bev Cooper. The group seems to have formed around 1982. It may be an early version of the organization that became the Mesa County Women’s Network.
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- Grand Junction Women’s Club (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- An organization founded in 1895. It was a predecessor to The Twentieth Century Club and other women’s organizations. Among its accomplishments, the club organized a small subscription library in a building on Main Street where the Avalon Theater now stands. The library was established entirely with donated books. At first, the library was open only to members of the Women’s Club, but then was opened to for the use of anyone in the public “whose morals were unquestionably good.” The women who ran the library called themselves the Women’s Library Association. The group wrote to Andrew Carnegie, asking him to supply funds for a library. By 1900, the association had received a promise from Andrew Carnegie to donate $5,000 for a library building, with the usual stipulation that funds be secured for the on-going support and maintenance of the library. The ladies lobbied the city council and, in due course, members of the council pledged $1,200 a year to support a library. A site was chosen on the corner of 7th and Grand, and the grand opening of the Grand Junction Public Library (GJPL) was held on July 5, 1901. The Women’s Library Association turned over its books and property to the public library, and the members promptly voted the association out of existence. The Women's Club also assisted Mesa Junior College in its beginning operations, and funded a child care center in the Crawford Addition (one of the first child care facilities in the city). The club had literature, art, and music departments. The organization continued to meet at least until 1982.
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- Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company (Mesa County, Colorado)
- The Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company provided the Interurban streetcar route from Fruita to Grand Junction, Colorado. It was run by the Public Service Company. The line in Grand Junction ran from 3rd and Main Streets, where there was a platform behind the Public Service Company building, down Main Street to 2nd Street, down 2nd Street to South Avenue, on South Avenue to 12th Street, on 12th to North Avenue, and then on North Avenue until the tracks veered to the Southwest, out past Patterson Road and onto Fruita. Charles Rump, who also served as the head of Public Service at one point, headed the Railway Company for a time. When the Interurban was decommissioned in 1936, workers dismantled the rails, brought them to Grand Junction, and shipped them to a foundry in Pueblo.
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- Grand Junction streetcar line (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- A streetcar system that was separate from the Interurban, and that ran within the city of Grand Junction. Its tracks made a figure eight formation through town, running from 2nd to 12th Street, and from South Avenue to Gunnison Avenue.
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- Grand Mesa Little League (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- The Grand Mesa Little League was formed in 1963. Loyd Files and Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, who lived in a house on 23rd Street just south of North Avenue and east of the Lincoln Park golf course, decided to develop forty acres south of their home into what is now the Mesa Gardens subdivision. The area’s children had been playing baseball in the field and now had nowhere to play. Files, who owned the land between Grand Avenue and North Avenue, and between 28 ½ Road and 23rd Street, donated 10 acres to the east of the Armory at 482 28 Road to the children for baseball. It was then that the Grand Mesa Little League was formed. In 1974, Files traded that land for acreage on 28 ¾ Road, north of North Avenue, where Files Filed was established. The Grand Mesa Little League is still in existence and still utilizes Files Field.
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- Grand Mesa Reservoir Company (Mesa County, Colorado)
- A company responsible for the development of early reservoirs on the Grand Mesa, near Kannah Creek. According to Walter Bradbury, a longtime resident of Kannah Creek and Whitewater, the construction of reservoirs began in 1887, following closely the development of irrigation ditches from Kannah Creek and Rapid Creek, which began in 1881. These reservoirs were built for the ranchers and farmers of Kannah Creek. The Grand Mesa Reservoir Company later merged with the Scales Lakes Reservoir Company. Between them, they developed several reservoirs, including: Grand Mesa #1, Grand Mesa #6, Grand Mesa #8, and Grand Mesa #9. These reservoirs effected the flow of stream waters into Kannah Creek The city of Grand Junction appropriated many of the water rights on the Grand Mesa and in Kannah Creek in 1910, in order to secure a drinking water supply for the city. The City of Grand Junction continues to work with the Grand Mesa Reservoir Company, and purchased Grand Mesa #1 in 1997.
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- Grand Mesa Ski Club (Mesa County, Colorado)
- An organization of skiing enthusiasts that formed in Mesa County on the 1930's. The organization included Roy, Edith and Russel Sisac, who had previously owned and operated Mesa County's first ski area, the Mesa Lakes Ski Run. The Grand Mesa Ski Club founded the Mesa Creek Ski Area, which operated on the Grand Mesa between the 1940's and 1966, when Powderhorn Ski Area opened.
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- Grand Valley Aircraft Association (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- An organization established by Loyd Files, Bill Eberhart, and Tom Wilson. The group sold Piper airplanes. Around this same time, Files built a small hangar and runway on land he had acquired along 28 Road between Grand Avenue and North Avenue. The organization later operated at Walker Field, where they sold planes and had a flying school.
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- Grand Valley Drainage District
- A drainage district organized by Ben Griffith and William Fry. It came into being with a bill passed by the Colorado State Congress in 1923. The Drainage District was created in order to prevent seep and the alkalization of irrigated waters and soils, thereby protected the Grand Valley's agricultural industry.
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- Grand Valley National Bank (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- A bank organized in part by William J. Moyer, owner of the Fair Store. William Weiser, Moyer's nephew, served as the bank's president for 17 years, ending when the bank was closed by the Federal Government for insolvency, after a run on local banks subsequent to the election of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency. The bank lost $100,000 in one day in 1933. It reopened as the First National Bank on January 2, 1934.