Organizations
Collection for organization entities.
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- Palisade Fruit Growers Association (Palisade, Colorado)
- A fruit grower’s cooperative run by Harry Younger. It may have been a division of the Grand Junction Fruit Growers Association. In his interview with the Mesa County Oral History Project, Thomas Charles refers to the organization as the Palisade Fruit Exchange.
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- Palisade Irrigation District (Palisade, Colorado)
- According to the website of the Palisade Irrigation District, it was established by a vote of the people of Palisade in 1904. The District takes water from the Colorado River via the Cameo Roller Dam and delivers it via the Price Ditch. According to William Lorenzen, editor of the Palisade Tribune newspaper from 1953 to 1979, the District ran afoul of local citizens after getting a rate hike approved by state officials without running it by Palisade citizens.
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- Palisade Public Library (Palisade, Colorado)
- The Palisade Public Library was founded in the early Twentieth century. It’s first incarnation was in a shop owned by a Mrs. Duncan, located next to the pool hall. According to oral history interviewee Ruth Tilton, the library was governed by the Palisade Library Board. Tilton was involved in the library board, as were George and Naomi Nesbit, Mabel Perkins, and Reese Echternach. When the library outgrew its store location, arrangements were made for it to occupy what had been a livery stable near what is now the town hall. Several people and organizations in town helped with the remodel of the stables on Second Street. Mrs. McVey served as the town librarian and lived above the library. Her successor was Fairy Ryan. The library moved again in 1953, to the Bower Garage at 208 East Third Street. Around 1968, the Palisade Library Board entered talks with the Mesa County Public Library and agreed to become a participating library in MCPL. At this same time, the Town of Palisade decided to replace its city hall, and wanted to build in the location that the library occupied. It was decided that the library would be housed in a combined municipal building, which was built at 175 East Third Street. Irene Wubben and Holly Fields assisted with the new library’s collection. Della Stevens served as the librarian in the new location. The Methodist Church and other groups provided furniture. The Palisade Library is now known as the Palisade Branch Library, and its operations are governed by the Mesa County Libraries Board of Directors.
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- Palisade Tribune newspaper (Palisade, Colorado)
- The Palisade Tribune’s first issue was published on June 6, 1903. According to later Tribune editor William Lorenzen, the first issues of the paper were probably printed with a #1 linotype. The newspaper was on average about four pages long, and often contained advertising on the front page. The newspaper’s first publisher was Clinton A. Martin (who owned and operated the paper on three separate occasions). In its early days, the newspaper also provided printing services (as did other early newspapers such as the Grand Junction News). The Tribune printed the Fruita Times (although all other work on the Times took place in Fruita). During Martin’s last tenure with the newspaper, he apparently operated it with funding from local merchants, and a contractual understanding that he could leave with the newspaper’s assets. He did take the newspaper’s assets with him when he left, which left the newspaper struggling for a period of time. Guy Bailey owned and edited the Tribune during the 1940’s. Bailey wrote scathing editorials about Eleanor Roosevelt, and his attacks were reputedly so brutal that Secret Service approached him and ordered him to cease and desist. Grand Junction lawyer Lincoln Coit bought the Tribune from Bailey. Dorothy Coit sold most of the advertising and gathered most of the news content. Coit sold the Tribune to Lorenzen in 1953. Lorenzen operated the paper for over twenty-six years. The Tribune never missed an issue in all of its years of publication, though Lorenzen reports that they were a “fly by night” operation at times. When he started with the Tribune, he had great difficulty selling advertising to local businesses, and so approached businesses in Clifton and Grand Junction instead. He and his wife were broke for many years, but finally managed to payoff their mortgage on the newspaper after thirteen years. The newspaper had two old linotype machines when Lorenzen took over the paper. Both machines were in bad shape. He purchased refurbished linotype machines in the 1960’s that served the paper well until offset printing became the newspaper standard. At that point, Lorenzen received a good deal of training and help from the Daily Sentinel in learning offset.
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- Palisade United Methodist Church (Palisade, Colorado)
- A Methodist church in Palisade, Colorado.
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- Palisade Woman's Club (Palisade, Colorado)
- An organization begun in the mid-Twentieth century. According to oral history interviewee and club member Rena Nisbet, the organization had ninety-one members at one time. They organized and created a nativity scene in Palisade. They had other projects, including the sponsorship of local murals.
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- Palisades National Bank (Palisade, Colorado)
- A bank founded in 1905. At the time of its inception, J.J. Durkee was the bank president and Herman W. Kluge was a bank director. T.W. Bowman became president of the bank in 1910, shortly after the institution had constructed a new building on Main Street and was in danger of insolvency. He helped keep the bank solvent and remained the president until 1942. According to oral history interviewee Luella Morgan, who worked for the Producers Exchange Bank beginning in 1918, the owners of the Producers Exchange State Bank bought out the stock holders of the Palisades National Bank in 1922, at which point the two institutions merged. After the merger, the Palisades National Bank maintained its name. The Palisades National Bank later purchased banks in De Beque and Collbran. It purchased the Bank of Palisade in 1915. According to oral history interviewee Ruth Tilton, Archie "Arch" Tilton and Bowman purchased the bank in 1924. At that time, they hired Forrest "Frosty" Tilton (Ruth Tilton's husband) as a cashier. Formerly, he had worked as a jack-of-all-trades in a bank in Holyoke. In 1933, the Federal Government ordered the bank to close and liquidate its assets due to the depreciation of its bond account. "Frosty" Tilton was appointed conservator of assets by the bank's board of directors. He succeeded in liquidating the bank's assets and paying off depositors in about a year's time. Afterwards, the bank reopened. *Photo courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.
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- Paonia Fruit Growers Association (Paonia, Colorado)
- A local organization that was operating by 1930 and possibly earlier. By 1930, it had 100 members and grew several fruit crops valued at one million dollars per year. Fred Powell was a one-time manager of the association.
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- Paraho Development Corporation (United States)
- Founded in 1973, it leased the Oil Shale Development Station at Anvil Points, Colorado and produced 100,000 barrels of oil for the Navy.