University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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Our first view of the school house is evidently a restoration of the scenery and building after the school house had been moved to a site near the flour lmill, Eleventh and Walnut, where it was used as a dwelling. The Indians are not an anachronism 5 in the fall-of 1860 four hundred Arapahoes, riding in a great circle, enclosed thousands of antelope, rounding them up near Valmont, where they secured their winterps meat. V The artist has at- tempted the representation of a 'fshakev roof, which was covered with stuff two feet long split from straight-grained pine, each piece lapped over the next at one side, as well as at the bottom. A The second illustration of the first school house is from a drawing by J. Bevier Sturtevantjt who was familiar with the details and who prepared the model for the World's Fair at Chicago. , The Fifty-niners left the nearest post office at Ft. Larimer, two hundred miles away 3 it cost fifty cents to get a letter in or out. 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zffx A A FIFTY-NINER ' During the first winter of the new city, 1859-60, many of the cabins walked' off into the country, where the former gulchers turned ranchers. In the fall of 1860 the first school house in Colorado was erected on the present site of the Central School, Fifteenth and Walnut. It was a frame structure costing twelve hundred dollars 5 this sum was raised by subscription. The payments were made in labor, lumber and other materials. When any- thing had to be purchased, a few chipped in, furnishing the cash. I have been told that a particularly 11116 tree up the Canon had been selected for lumber and men were going after it on a Monday. A smart fellow, thinking to ap- propriate it to his own purposes, started after the tree on the preceding Sun- day , but Captain David H. Nichols, hearing of his plan, got out his team, and, hurrying into the mountains, inet the load coming down the Canon, a sharp argument with sled stakes resulted in a victory for education and the doughty captain rolled the tree trunk onto his own rig. A. R. Brown, who taught the Hrst term of school, supervised the construe- tion and worked on the building, giving his labor. So far as I know, the pioneer educator of our County, now resident in Boulder, is Mrs. Barker, who taught in the first school house as Miss Hannah Cornell. Men came from far to get a pattern of the first and only school house -and, incidentally, to see the schoolmapam. 15

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squared, and then marked above and below for the thickness of the boards 3 one man stood in the pit and pulled the saw down, his mate worked above the frame, and each keeping to his mark, travelled from one end of the log to the other as the saw was urged through. This lumber sold at S200 a thousand. The logs of some houses were visible on Pearl Street as late as 1884, when I came to Boulder. The house on the northwest corner of Eleventh and Spruce, for many years the home of our honored alumnus, Dr. C. Caverno, is a log house of 1859, now covered with siding, so is the building at the southeast corner of Eleventh and Pearl. In 1860 Boulder was a little town of some sixty log cabins and one or two frame houses. The first frame house in the county is at 1617 Pearl. It was built by A. J. Mackey on the northeast corner of Pearl and Fourteenth, and was for years court house, town hall and church. The winter of 1860-61 was a hard one, some of the inhabitants being reduced to a diet of parched corn. Among those who came to Gold. Hill in 1860 was Robert Culver, who brought a quartz mill. He was of New England ancestry, and at once took an interest in higher education. As early as 1861 he began to work for a university to be located at Boulder. Before the first school house was a year old, his plans were completed. A ,convention had been called at Golden to nominate representatives to the First Territorial Legislature. Every mining camp was entitled to a delegate. The story goes that several new camps were suddenly organized 5 Mr. Culver appeared at Golden with the proxies of most of them, and was chosen 'secretary of the convention. He secured the nomi- nation of Charles F. Holly as representative from Boulder County, who was pledged to push the necessary legislation. Mr. Holly redeemed his promise, and on October 26, 1861, introduced into the House a bill to establish the University of Colorado at Boulder, it was ratified by Governor Gilpin, No- vember 7. ' V X f V ...ff-xii' - ' .,.-,fwfti-rV.' . -. ..,,.,,'N' ' 'P ,... X sw.. -,-- .1 ,gf , .. . ' A pplpk , H.lg:35',,g,.'.,..:5j wwf. ,.... X A. f3.L.....M.,Q.' G' A-be :. 'G-t' rl-'f fi-.-+-1.1 ' +G Q . f v-r r'v' 't if .g,r..ft' X 'G ' 'Z ' ..,. A Xa' , . . , i'T'1 'eil-A it 5ii-g..1IT:.. . ' - fi swyg !1.ei-053-'f:,A3.,:p.'r:1fi8-?N,,.,...-:gif Qi sk ,s -- v I-,,,,...,..,.-, , '- . V 'G f 7w'l.,.,.1 -' f'L?ff77'7'T- fu 3 1 :QQ t5 'Ii.1i.i1li1iil.. 1. F..f 1'r ' A 1 1 ii. off we . 1 ' ?i'?LL..f .....,-,, 3 .M - . ' W ' f'iQE2LZi3.:.,ss' W L lg ---- .K fi ' - 5 ' - -'Q -3 s 0 fi'f'l+f sl f f'l' f J s'-- ' s -'s vi ie.. G4 'vse or 1 j X E. ifii.l:fQ : E Hg ..,. ..... fIf..f. A T .M X N-if 3 . 0 Hi if 0 .Q . I at -J, 5' ' !'.I.i..,. , F .. t ' I 4 - ' '- 1 QF 3 QQ . Z I fv 'rs - ' , ' 3' , . . - 1535- 1.1. C L X . .... ff Tj,'Qf X ' E--,:,-W ., ..... r .... S f 5 1 , j , . 5, Q z .1..gQQ......i.Qf Ajg:f3.:i:Q'kg,j Q11EET--. 's:: f WP -'li fffie' f fi , .M , Q - Q 4L..g.f.g,s-LL'i.Q,f.i. QIf.'IT1 '.','lL '. . 't't fit? -4' ' '92 -I 'C M if 'M ' Y, 1 'deaf ..' -5, H .....-.,..- ...... I 1. .. - I 1 . -f-- -s Q N l 1 'fjlgjj V J 18... ig. -p .4 -' gy. T ,..... 'ii . ,L K. ...ii .xr .. ul-g f E ' 1' 7 Jlifwl. .-. 'Q-Nfffg ef-ffT11355+ . 8. ' 'Dwi' ilgii . . v , .. . ' ' . - .f,,,...-A--f . ., .... I -vf Ns- - , ' - - -W 11' , I gk ef V p . 't ' . 8 , vm. ' .. ' ' , '1 1 x lp . .. . K K Q .. .... .. x.,,,M.,, ALA . 24 -f' TS if, p 4 .1 + . .. - .. is ,. . .1 ...... --- -M . X X - ..: I fe fl, . .N - .,,-- v- N 1 rl-I . . ---- Q. e t f 1, . - fr - Y f 1 , x - ' W - if iff 1, K :ip 4, I, N' X - i Q . X Xi:,lQypyi5x, .rg I ' ,. 'Q . .1 ,p . . J . s ,, p ...., -. l ppuh , . ...N .,.,, Q ly . V' ...,.. ,QCQ .. .U h N TTS- J, it if ,L lffii iw 551 If s , . ss-.43e,.,t,t.f N vs '. . , K . 1 A ' ,M- -. -- .T f .9- .p flap 5 M' . . Q .. N my A Hx .. L Q .S 7. 1.1 3- . G '. 1 X t 4- FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE IN COLORADO ' 17 .. I., 4 I .iii-....,:..., P fs