People

: Dominick Arcieri; He was born in Italy to James and Rosa Arcieri and came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1913, at the age of 10. The family settled in the Pomona area, where his father had a greenhouse and farm. They then moved to 1037 North Avenue in Grand Junction, where they built a home, but found the land unsuitable for farming. They sold the house after a year and bought land at the corner of 7th Street and Struthers Avenue, near the current location of Edgewater Brewery. There, they built a home and greenhouses and raised thousands of tomatoes a year for the Curry Canning Company. They sold their greenhouses to Stephen Barnwell Johnson, who established Johnson's House of Flowers, in 1937. Arcieri was an agricultural and railroad laborer. He married Alvina (Latto) Arcieri, the daughter of Italian immigrants, in 1926.