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De Beque House

Added by yongli on 12/20/2016 - 14:05, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 18:16

De Beque House

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The De Beque House was built in 1889 at 233 Denver Street in the town of De Beque, Mesa County . It was the home of Wallace A.E. de Beque , one of the town’s founders. The wood-frame house has remained mostly unchanged since de Beque’s death in 1930 and is the last surviving property that...

Grand Junction

Added by yongli on 01/24/2017 - 16:26, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 20:44
With a population of nearly 60,000, Grand Junction is the largest city on Colorado’s Western Slope . The city takes its name from its location at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado (formerly the Grand) Rivers, in the heart of the Grand Valley . Grand Junction lies near some of the state’s...

Mesa County

Added by yongli on 06/27/2016 - 15:11, last changed on 11/17/2022 - 01:41
Mesa County is situated on 3,341 square miles of the eastern Colorado Plateau in western Colorado. The county is named for the wide, flat-topped mountains within its borders. The Spanish called such mountains mesas —meaning “tables.” The county’s largest mesa, Grand Mesa , rises more than 11,000...

Wayne Aspinall

Added by yongli on 08/01/2016 - 14:56, last changed on 08/18/2022 - 16:22
At the memorial service for long-time congressman Wayne Aspinall in 1983, Colorado Governor Richard Lamm said, “you can’t take a drink of water in Colorado without remembering Wayne Aspinall.” Wayne Norviel Aspinall (1896–1983) was born in Ohio and moved with his family to Palisade , Colorado, in...
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