People

: Arvid Muhr; In 1909 he came to Fruita, Colorado, where his father and uncle homesteaded. Muhr attended school in Sweden for the first few years, and continued in Fruita. Because of a lack of water rights, they abandoned their homestead, and eventually bought land on L Road, where his father farmed. During its construction, Muhr and his brother worked on the Highline Canal. He also worked for ten years on a hydroelectric dam near Palisade (possibly the dam built on the Orchard Mesa Power Canal in 1933). Then in 1939, he began growing peaches on East Orchard Mesa, and continued to farm until 1971 when he sold his land. A member of the Central Orchard Mesa Community Church, Muhr also enjoyed fishing hunting and carpentry. *Photograph courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.

: Arvilla Meeker; Wife of Nathan Meeker. During the Meeker Massacre, she and her daughter were kidnapped by Ute Indians who sought to use them as bargaining chips. They were left bound to the Surrender Tree on the Grand Mesa.