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Notice posted February 2019: This site is no longer being updated. For news from the Jefferson County Historical Commission, please look for us on Facebook (@JeffcoCOHistoricalCommission) or at the Jefferson Co. website. We are also on Twitter, @JeffcoHistory. Posts and … Continue reading → [...]

2018 Jefferson County Historical Commission Historic Preservation Symposium – “Building Community: A Historical Perspective”

The Jefferson County Historical Commission (JCHC) held its 2018 Historic Preservation Symposium on May 19th at the Lakewood Heritage Center. This year’s theme was “Building Communities: a Historical Perspective.” John Steinle, a member of the JCHC, spoke about “How Volunteers … Continue reading → [...]

2018 JCHC Historic Preservation Symposium – May 19, 2018

Registration is now open for the 2018 JCHC Historic Preservation Symposium. This year the theme is Building Community: A Historical Perspective. Register early. Space is limited and last year we sold out! Here is the link to register! https://jchc2018symposium.eventbrite.com [...]

Judges Wall Celebrated November 2nd

by Bonnie Scudder, Chair, Jefferson County Historical Commission Judges Wall Project The Jefferson County Historical Commission, 1st Judicial District, and the Colorado Supreme Court Law Library celebrated the completion of Phase III of the Judges Wall, which features biographies of … Continue reading → [...]

The Jefferson County Historical Commission 2017 Hall of Fame and Historic Preservation Awards

The Jefferson County Historical Commission Hall of Fame and Historic Preservation Awards event was held on October 12, 2017 at the Mount Vernon Canyon Club. The event honored Hall of Fame recipients, Meyer Award winners, recent historic landmark designees and … Continue reading → [...]

The Harlem Riot of 1943 begins

Simmering racial tensions and economic frustrations boil over in New York City on the night of August 1, 1943, culminating in what is now known as the Harlem Riot of 1943. During an altercation in the lobby of the Braddock Hotel, a white police officer shoots a Black soldier, Robert Bandy, ... [...]

Operation Tidal Wave: U.S. forces attempt risky air raid on Axis oil refineries

On August 1, 1943, 177 B-24 bombers take off from an Allied base in Libya, bound for the oil-producing city Ploiești, Romania, nicknamed “Hitler’s gas station.” The daring raid, known as Operation Tidal Wave, resulted in five men being awarded the Medal of Honor—three of them posthumously—but ... [...]

Anne Frank writes her last diary entry

Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl hiding out in Nazi-occupied Holland whose diary came to serve as a symbol of the Holocaust, writes her final entry three days before she and her family are arrested and placed in concentration camps. Frank, 15 at the time, received the diary on her 13th birthday, ... [...]

Hitler oversees Berlin Olympics opening ceremony

As more than 5,000 athletes from 51 countries march into a stadium packed with 100,000 onlookers, Adolf Hitler makes his only public statement of the Berlin Olympics at its opening ceremony on this day in 1936: “I proclaim the Games of Berlin, celebrating the eleventh Olympiad of the modern era, to ... [...]

George R.R. Martin’s "Game of Thrones" debuts

On August 1, 1996, “A Game of Thrones,” an epic fantasy novel by George R.R. Martin, is released. The book was the first in Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, about feuding medieval noble families on an imaginary continent called Westeros. Although not initially a best-seller, “A Game of ... [...]

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