1125 Pine Street
Boulder, CO 80302
303-441-3110
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Call Number
OH1633
Date
1995
Description
Leroy Schlagel was a prominent Longmont farmer whose family emigrated from Germany and Russia. Mr. Schlagel touches on a variety of topics: homesteading in the Longmont area, early white settlers' interactions with Indians, muskrat trapping, sugar beet farming, playing baseball with the Altona Grange on Nelson Road, other early families in the area (the Butterworths, Cushmans, Wagners, Voakes and Rudys), and the origins of the Left Hand Water Supply Company, which he helped to found. Mr. Schlagel began working in the beet fields at six years of age; he bought his first land when he was 18-years-old (80 acres at $200 an acre on Nelson Road), and he describes not only farming life, but also the decline of farming in the area and what the loss of that way of life has meant culturally. He also talks about his involvements in the 4-H Club, which led to his meeting President Truman; serving on the St. Vrain Valley School District school board, and planning the community of Clover Basin.
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Call Number
328-258
Date
1993-2002
Contents
1 box.
Description
This box contains documents pertaining to the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame, established in 1992. The Criteria Statement stated that their mission was "to research, document, and recommend for induction into the Hall of Fame those individuals who have been instrumental through business-related efforts, in providing direction, energy, and support to the shaping of Boulder County since its inception. Those business-related efforts should result in community-wide economic, social, cultural, political, and/or religious benefits that not only had an immediate positive impact on the community and its citizens, but an impact that will still be evident in decades to come.", The contents include biographies of the inductees, newspaper clippings, guest lists, and lists of names to be considered for the award.