The children who lived at or in the vicinity of Elwell walked, bicycled, or rode a horse to White Hall, a small country schoolhouse situated about a mile south of Elwell on CR13 on the Whitehall farm. The early country schools also served as places to gather and worship on Sundays before the first churches…
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Cora May Elwell was born in Newark Valley, NY on August 20, 1867. After finishing public school, she attended seminary school in Pennsylvania and then came to the Denver area with her husband Stewart “Grant” Dilley in 1886. She was still a teenager. In 1894, Cora joined the Evangelical United Brethren Church and was appointed…
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Harvey Jay Parish was born in Taylor County, Iowa near Hawleyville on February 5, 1862. He traveled to Colorado in a covered wagon with his family when he was four years old, and they settled a few miles west of present-day Loveland on a quarter section of land that is now known as the Buckhorn…
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Johnstown’s first record of an organized group of fire-fighting, bucket-brigade volunteers was public notice on August 20, 1908 that read: “To Johnstown Fire Department: In case of fire, several dozen tin pails, two axes and two extension ladders can be found stored in a wareroom just north of the old Morrison Black Smith Shop (where…
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At the time of her death in May 1956, Elsie Dee Grant had served as Johnstown’s first and only school nurse for the previous 27 years, also surpassing all of the school teachers’ tenure up to that time. Miss Grant first came to Johnstown during the Diphtheria epidemic in the spring of 1927 and assisted…
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The October 12, 1922 issue of The Johnstown Breeze announced a new industry, The Colorado Soap Company, was moving to Johnstown. And, indeed, the factory did come, much to the painful memory of many of the old timers who invested in the company. The new building, located on North Main Street (now Parish Avenue), was…
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