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Dec. 2, 1893: #Colorado women officially got the right to vote after a successful referendum vote on Nov. 7. CSU Pueblo historian Judy Gaughan tracks the suffrage question through CO's early legislative sessions: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/legisl…

👀New article: The Civil War in Colorado, by Geoff Hunt: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/civil-…

#OTD in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment's ratification was certified, officially granting American women the vote. Learn about the #Colorado suffragettes who helped pave the way by getting the vote in the Centennial State in 1893: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/19th-a…

New articles: Avalanches, Fairplay, Precious Metal Mining in CO: ❄️❄️🏘️🏘️🪙🪙 coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/avalan… coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/fairpl… coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/precio…

6/26/2012: 10 years ago today, the deadly Waldo Canyon Fire raced toward the Mountain Shadows subdivision near CO Springs. The fire consumed the neighborhood, burning nearly 350 homes & killing 2: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/waldo-…

Thousands of servers, storage units and network devices stacked up in sprawling warehouses across the West suck juice from the grid to process millions of transactions. hcn.org/issues/54.3/in…

Photo: Early Georgetown, late 1860s. Residents cleared out surrounding timber for buildings, flumes, and other structures.

June 17, 1859: Too late to stake a claim at John Gregory's bonanza diggings to the north, George Griffith & his party moved south & found gold near South Clear Creek. In September 1860, Georgetown became official: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/george…

Happy Birthday Red Rocks! Colorado's favorite concert venue officially opened with a performance of "Ave Maria" on June 15, 1941: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/red-ro…

After first claiming she came upon an "out of control campfire," USFS employee Terry Lynn Barton later told a court she was the source of the fire, starting it to burn a letter from her estranged husband. Barton served 5 years in prison for starting the blaze, 2003-08. 2/2

June 8, 2002: Hayman Fire ignites between South Park & CO Springs. It burned some 138,000 acres (4th largest in state history, largest until 2020). 5 firefighters & 1 resident died, & more than 600 structures burned 1/2: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/hayman… Image & map from .@CUSP_CO

Around midnight on June 4, 1921, water levels in Pueblo reached 24+ feet during one of the worst flooding events in Colorado history: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/1921-p… Image from .@WHGnews

May 30, 1894 was Memorial Day, but also a day to forget for residents of .@bouldercolorado - Boulder Creek flooded, causing mass destruction & rendering the town a swampy island. Miraculously, nobody was killed, & residents rebuilt over the next year: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/boulde…

Images from .@WHGnews: digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collec…

Happy Birthday, Dearfield! O.T. Jackson's all-Black agricultural community was founded ##OTD in 1910. A decade + of boom years offered opportunity for hundreds, but gave way to struggles & eventually, abandonment: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/dearfi…

The US Air Force Academy was founded on this day in 1954 - No foolin'! coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/united…

My dad found this thank you letter to my great grandfather from President Eisenhower and I think it's pretty darn cool. My great grandpa was Eisenhower's body guard when he would come to Denver

Alice Hill, btw, was a force of nature. Not only was she CO's poet laureate (1919) & helped found the woman's press club, but she was also a music teacher, reporter, & 1st female member of CO historical society. (.@HistoryColorado).

#WomensHistoryMonth : Founded in 1898 by journalist Minnie Reynolds, the Denver Woman's Press Club featured the nation's 1st poet laureate, Alice Polk Hill, & consistently advocated for rights & better treatment for women & children: coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/denver…

Dive into Northern Colorado's Native American history with The Way it Was, a @coloradoan podcast. Listen now at bit.ly/3JdaFBT