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The center had originally been a 500-acre summer estate of Alice Bemis Taylor, a philanthropist and an important Colorado Springs family. Mrs. Taylor held artist-in-residence programs on the estate she called La Foret. The Taylor Memorial Chapel was built one year after the lodge as a memorial to her husband, Frederick Morgan Pike Taylor.
William Henry Perkins, better known as "Moccasin Bill" Perkins (December 24, 1825 – November 13, 1904), was a frontiersman, scout, and hunter. [1] Born in Indiana, he learned to trap and hunt as a child when the area was a wilderness.
Delta is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Delta County, Colorado, United States. [1] [7] The town population was 9,035 at the 2020 United States Census. [5] The United States Forest Service headquarters of the Grand Mesa, Gunnison, and Uncompahgre National Forests are located in Delta.
The Dominguez Canyon rail crash, also known as the Wells Gulch rail crash, was a train crash in Colorado in 1937 that killed the engineer (Charles Freeman) and the fireman. The crash occurred on April 26, 1937, as the train was traveling Northwestward from Delta, Colorado to Grand Junction, Colorado , on the D&RGW tracks, near Dominguez Canyon .
Samuel Tesitor Taylor (January 4, 1903 – March 23, 1977) was a Democratic state senator from Colorado, U.S. He served in the state senate for 40 years, from 1934 to 1974. [ 4 ] Born in Hastings, Colorado, [ 1 ] the site of a former coal mine and now a ghost town, he later moved to Walsenburg, Colorado .
Akpor Pius Ewherido, 50, Nigerian politician, member of the Senate for Delta Central (since 2011), Delta MLA for Ughelli South (1999–2007), complications from a stroke. [549] Claudio Fattoretto, 57, Italian voice actor, stroke. [550] Richard Fehr, 73, Swiss religious leader, Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church (1988–2005). [551]
Dilfer 52, was hired after the team went 7-6 under interim coach Bryant Vincent in 2022. Coach Bill Clark resigned for health reasons before that season after leading the Blazers to a 43-20 record ...
Delta County votes predominantly Republican in national, state, and local elections. No Democratic presidential candidate has reached forty percent of Delta County's vote since Lyndon Johnson carried the county in 1964, and since 1920 Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 is the only other Democrat to gain a majority, although Roosevelt did win a ...