Mesa County Oral History Project ➔ Early Homesteading And Teaching
Oral History -- Audiocassette
Identifier:
51.1977Description
Nora McGinley Flynn discusses her experience growing up in the Grand Valley in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, her career as one of Mesa County's early schoolteachers, her family’s involvement with the founding of Grand Junction, and her family’s various employment positions with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.McGinley Family History; Scarlet Fever; Dr. Bull; St. Joseph Catholic Church; Loma; Handy Chapel; Western State College; Minturn; Drgrr; State Home And Training School; Masonic Cemetery; Irish; The First To Enter The Valley Were Bill Mcginley, Ode Russell, And Clay Nichols; They Came In Through Orchard Mesa; McGinley Was Engineer On First Drg Train To Arrive Here; Gunnison; Mule And Dog Story; Pacific Water Company; Senator Ed Taylor From Colorado; Gov. Crawford; Tb; 75th Jubliee; Mccinley Was A Mason; Knight Templar; Frank Dean; Moyer's Pool; J.P. Moyer; Quartines; Pest House
Content Date:
1900 – 1977Interview Date:
May 6 1977Rights:
copyright Museums of Western ColoradoRelated collection
Mesa County Oral History Project The Mesa County Oral History Project began as a joint project of the Museums of Western Colorado and Mesa County Libraries (MCL) in 1975.What IS Oral History?
An oral history is an audio or video recording of a person speaking about their personal, lived experience of historical events.
Note that in some cases, the same OH numb...