Timeline of Boulder, Colorado

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Video Timeline of Boulder, Colorado

19th century

• 1858
  • October 17 - a group of gold prospectors from Fort St. Vrain 30 mi. to the east led by Capt. Thomas Aikens camp in Red Rocks on Boulder Creek in modern-day Settler's Park at the mouth of Boulder Canyon. This was in Arapaho territory, near the camp of Southern Arapaho chief Chief Niwot (Left Hand) (1825-64) in Valmont Butte. Chief Niwot rode to their camp to warn them to leave, but changed his mind after being given food and liquor, and having a dream of a flood washing his people away but letting the white people survive. Due to the prospectors' gifts and the premonition in his dream, he welcomed the visitors, but not before uttering the Curse of the Boulder Valley: "People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty."
• 1859
  • January 15 - gold is discovered in Gold Hill, Colorado above Left Hand Canyon in NW Boulder.
  • February 10 - the Boulder City Town Company is formed, and the town laid out into 4,044 lots, offered for $1,000 each.
• 1861
  • February 28 - the Territory of Colorado is created by the U.S. Congress, causing Boulder to no longer be part of Nebraska Territory.
  • November 7 - legislation is passed making way for the state university to be located in Boulder.
• 1869 - Boulder County News begins publication.
• 1870
  • Denver and Boulder Valley Railroad begins operating.
  • Population: 1,939.
• 1871
  • November 4 - town incorporated.
• 1873 - Railroad begins operating.
• 1875
  • September 20 - the first cornerstone is laid for the first building (Old Main Building) on the CU campus.
  • Colorado Banner newspaper begins publication.
  • Boulder High School established.
• 1876
  • August 1 - Boulder becomes part of new State of Colorado.
• 1877 - September 5 - The University of Colorado officially opens.
• 1878 - The first mayor, Jacob Ellison is elected for a two-month term.
• 1880 - The town passes the 3,000 population mark, making it eligible for incorporation.
• 1882
  • April 3 - Boulder is incorporated as a 2nd class town, and later that month a new town hall is completed in time for the first meeting of the city council.
• 1883
  • The first courthouse is built.
  • The University of Colorado Medical School opens.
• 1885 - Denver, Marshall and Boulder Railway begins operating.
• 1890
  • Boulder Railroad Depot built.
  • Boulder Camera begins publication.
• 1891 - Feeny Opera House active (approximate date).
• 1892
  • Highland School built.
  • University of Colorado Law School established.
• 1893 - Philharmonic Club formed.
• 1895 - Crockett Ricketts elected mayor.
• 1896 - Colorado Sanitarium in business.
• 1898
  • Chautauqua Auditorium built.
  • Colorado & Southern Railway in operation.
• 1900 - Colorado Chautauqua established.

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20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1902
  • Boulder Oil Field well begins operation.
  • University of Colorado Museum of Natural History founded.
• 1906
  • Curran Opera House opens.
  • University of Colorado College of Commerce established.
• 1907
  • Boulder adopts an anti-saloon ordinance.
  • Carnegie Library built.
• 1909
  • Denver, Boulder and Western Railroad begins operating.
  • Hotel Boulderado opens.
• 1910 - Population: 9,539.
• 1916 - Statewide prohibition starts in Colorado, ending with the repeal of national prohibition in 1933.
• 1923 - Macky Auditorium opens.
• 1924 - Colorado Stadium opens.
• 1926 - Rialto Theatre built.
• 1929 - Denver Municipal Airport begins operating.
• 1932 - The courthouse burns down, and is rebuilt in 1934.
• 1937 - Balch Fieldhouse (arena) openened.
• 1941 - Civic Symphony Orchestra founded.
• 1944 - Boulder Historical Society established.
• 1947 - KBOL radio begins broadcasting.
• 1948
  • Andrews Arboretum established.
  • Conference on World Affairs begins at the University of Colorado.
• 1949 - Sommers-Bausch Observatory built.

1950s-1990s

• 1950
  • Population: 19,999.
• 1952
  • U.S. National Bureau of Standards-Atomic Energy Commission Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory in operation.
  • Denver-Boulder Turnpike opens.
• 1953 - Colorado Daily in publication.
• 1954 - September: U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now known as National Institute of Standards and Technology) facility dedicated.
• 1955 - Denver Regional Council of Governments formed.
• 1958
  • Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra founded.
  • Colorado Shakespeare Festival begins.
• 1963 - Crossroads Mall in business.
• 1966 - Attention Homes opens its first home on 14th St.
• 1967 - U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesa Laboratory built.
• 1969 - Regional Transportation District (public transit system) organized.
• 1970
  • City "comprehensive plan" created.
  • Paladin Press in business.
• 1971 - Boulder Arts and Crafts Cooperative founded.
• 1972 - Historic Boulder, Inc. formed.
• 1973 - Vajradhatu headquartered in Boulder.
• 1974 - Naropa Institute and Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics established.
• 1975 - KBVL radio begins broadcasting.
• 1976
  • Colorado Music Festival begins.
  • Residential-growth management ordinance approved.
• 1977
  • Pearl Street Mall constructed.
  • KBCO begins broadcasting.
• 1978 - Boulder Magazine begins publication.
• 1979
  • Colorado University Events Center (arena) opens.
  • Bolder Boulder footrace begins.
• 1980 - Kinetics Conveyance Race begins.
• 1983 - January 1: Polar Bear Plunge begins.
• 1986
  • Sister city relationship established with Lhasa, Tibet.
• 1987
  • Farmer's Market opens.
  • Sister city relationship activated with Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
• 1988 - Colorado MahlerFest begins.
• 1989 - Rocky Mountain Spiritual Emergence Network Times begins publication.
• 1990 - Radio Reading Service of the Rockies founded.
• 1991
  • Culinary School of the Rockies founded.
  • eTown (radio program) begins broadcasting.
• 1993
  • Mountain Sun pub in business.
  • Boulder Weekly begins publication.
• 1994
  • Denver International Airport begins operating.
  • Sister city relationship established with Yamagata, Japan.
  • Boulder Community Network online.
• 1996
  • Boulder Area Trails Coalition founded.
  • Smoking ban enacted.
• 1998
  • October 31: Naked Pumpkin Run begins.
  • Bob Greenlee becomes mayor.
  • Dushanbe Tea House opens.
  • Bent Lens Cinema founded.
• 2000
  • Sister city relationship established with Ciudad Mante, Mexico.
  • Moondance Film Festival begins.

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21st century

• 2002 - Spot Bouldering Gym in business.
• 2004
  • Mark Ruzzin becomes mayor.
  • Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival begins.
  • Boulder Chamber Orchestra founded.
• 2005 - Boulder Adventure Film Festival begins.
• 2006
  • November: Carbon tax approved.
  • Twenty Ninth Street shopping center in business.
  • Bikes Belong coalition headquartered in Boulder (approximate date).[2]
• 2007 - Communikey Festival begins.
• 2009
  • Susan Osborne becomes mayor, succeeded by Matthew Appelbaum.
  • Jared Polis becomes Colorado's 2nd congressional district representative.
  • Sister city relationship established with Kisumu, Kenya.
• 2010 - Population: 97,385.
• 2011
  • November: Municipal electric utility approved.
  • Boulder Food Rescue active.
• 2012 - National Institute of Standards and Technology Precision Measurement Laboratory dedicated.
• 2013 - Falling Fruit (urban agriculture map) launched.

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See also

• History of Boulder, Colorado
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Boulder County, Colorado
• Education in Boulder
• Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area
• Timeline of Colorado history
• Timelines of other cities in Colorado: Aurora, Colorado Springs, Denver

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References

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Bibliography

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External links

• Boulder Library. Carnegie Branch Library for Local History
  • Photograph Collection
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Boulder, Colorado, various dates

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