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Pat Jurgens: Falling Forward, a Woman’s Journey West

Posted on October 24, 2020 by EMAHS

Falling Forward, a Woman's Journey West

 

 

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Notice posted February 2019: This site is no longer being updated.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”
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
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
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 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 → [...]

Pope John Paul II shot

Near the start of his weekly general audience in Rome’s St. Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded while passing through the square in an open car. The assailant, 23-year-old escaped Turkish murderer Mehmet Ali Agca, fired four shots, one of which hit the pontiff in the ... [...]

Mary Queen of Scots defeated

At the Battle of Langside, the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, the regent of her son, King James VI of Scotland. During the battle, which was fought out in the southern suburbs of Glasgow, a cavalry charge routed Mary’s 6,000 ... [...]

Jamestown settlers arrive

Some 100 English colonists arrive along the east bank of the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Dispatched from England by the London Company, the colonists had sailed across the Atlantic aboard the Susan ... [...]

U.S. Congress declares war on Mexico

On May 13, 1846, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly votes in favor of President James K. Polk’s request to declare war on Mexico in a dispute over Texas. Under the threat of war, the United States had refrained from annexing Texas after the latter won independence from Mexico in 1836. But in 1844, ... [...]

Bobby Riggs and Margaret Court face off in first “Battle of the Sexes”

On May 13, 1973, during the early years of the women’s liberation movement, tennis stars Bobby Riggs and Margaret Court face off in a $10,000 winner-take-all challenge match. The 55-year-old Riggs, a tennis champion from the late 1930s and '40s who was notoriously skeptical of women’s talents on ... [...]

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