As a part of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry’s monthly lecture series, Leah Davis Witherow — curator of history at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum — will be ...

GRETNA, Va. – A local 101-year-old World War II veteran was finally honored with service medals earlier today. Gretna native ...

William Jackson Palmer, American Civil War, 1861. He became a general during the war. Palmer was a Quaker from Delaware and despite his religious pacifist views, Palmer would go on to fight for ...

In 1865 here in Colorado Springs the city's founder General William Jackson Palmer made sure that all children regardless of color could attend school together, according to the Pikes Peak Library ...

Arts center banks on land swap. By Erin Emery Denver Post Southern Colorado Bureau Mar. 21, 2001 - COLORADO SPRINGS - The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, one of the city's most venerable ...

What Queen Palmer began would lead to the opening of Colorado Springs’ first school in 1875. That building burned down, and Colorado Springs High School was built in 1893, where it stood until ...

On the last day of July in 1871, under the shadow of Pikes Peak, Gen. Robert Cameron and other colleagues of Gen. William Jackson Palmer drove a stake into the ground of sprawling, treeless ...

Colorado Springs founder Gen. William Jackson Palmer would be proud of his namesake preserve — a rugged paradise of colorful bluffs and thick forests, feeling far removed from the city but ...

That's because the intersection also pays tribute to the city's founder, General William Jackson Palmer, with a large statue of him sitting tall upon his horse. The statue is in the middle of the ...

In Colorado’s second-biggest city, Gen. William Jackson Palmer is a household name. He’s the celebrated founding father of Colorado Springs. But little do residents know about his legacy to ...