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Past Events

2025 Past Events
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Thursday, January 23, 2025, Annual Membership Meeting and Presentation by Bonnie Clark  "Amache Japanese Internment Camp History"
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2024 Past Events 
Thursday, November 14, 2024, Slocum Cabin Presentation
Saturday & Sunday, October 26 & 27, Homestead Hikes in Roxborough State Park 
Saturday, October 19, International Archaeology Day
Thursday, September 26, Highland Canal and Seven Stones
Thursday, August 29, History of Chatfield State Park

Thursday, June 27, Staunton Cabin Tour
​May - October, Lamb Spring Archaeological Preserve Tours
Thursday, January 24, Annual Membership Meeting and Presentation by Mike Thomas "Area Railroad History"

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2023 Past Events
Monday, July 24, Central City Tour
Thursday, June 8, Kassler Facility Tour at Waterton Canyon*
​Thursday, May 18, Perse Place Tour, Roxborough State Park
​Thursday, February 23, Scam Protection Presentation by Ryan Falkner, Douglas County Sheriff's Office
Thursday, January 26, Annual Membership Meeting and Presentation by Mike Thomas "Homesteads of Roxborough State Park"
​*Members Only
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2022 Past Events
Thursday, January 27, Annual Membership Meeting and Presentation from Melanie Grothe on "Mountain Jeannie"

Saturday, June 4, Riverside Cemetery Tour, "Distinguished Women of Riverside"
Saturday, October 8, Schmidt Nature Park Walk


2021 Past Events
Thursday, January 21, Annual Membership Meeting and Presentation "Florence Martin and Daniels Park"
Saturday, June 19th, Daniels Park Tour
Thursday, July 8, Long's Peak Expedition presentation
​Thursday, September 2, Douglas County Respository Tour
Thursday, September 23, 5th Annual High Line Canal Conservancy History Talk and Audubon Nature Walk
Thursday, October 28, Ghost Stories with Shaun Boyd


2020 Past Events
Thursday, January 30, Annual Membership Meeting and Presentation "Let's Talk Roxborough History"
Wednesday, September 23, Annual High Line Canal History and Nature Walk
Saturday, October 3, Self-Guided Walking Tours of Downtown Littleton


2019 Past Events
Thursday, January 31, Annual Meeting and Presentation "Legend of Soapy Smith: King of the Frontier Con-Men"
Friday, March 15, History Colorado Behind the Scenes tour (members only event)
​​Saturday, June 1, Audubon Nature Walk Through the Eyes of an 1870’s Entomologist
Thursday, June 27, General Shale Hogback Mine: Learn the History of Our Local Bricks from Quarry to Patio
Saturday, August 24, Silica Kiln Stabilization Celebration


​​2018 Past Events
Friday, January 26, Annual Meeting and Presentation "An Evening with Mary Lincoln"
Saturday, February 24, Silent Auction for the Silica Brick Kiln: Wine, Chocolate and Roses
Thursday, April 19, An Evening with J.v.L. Bell, Author of The Lucky Hat Mine
Saturday, May 5, Lamb Spring/Miksch-Helmer cabin tour

Thursday, August 23, Civil War presentation with Brent Brown 
​Thursday, October 25, High Line Canal History & Nature Walk


2017 Past Events
Thursday, January 26, Annual Meeting and special guest "Thomas Jefferson" presenter, Jack Van Ens
Friday, March 3, Memory Lane Fundraiser
Thursday, April 27, 
Guest Speaker Jill Tietjen, author of Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
Saturday, May 6, Miksch-Helmer cabin and Lamb Spring Archaeological Preserve site tour
​Thursday, June 22, 
An Insider's Peek into Cherokee Castle with Meg Anderson and John Lake
Saturday, August 19, Silica Kiln History and Fundraiser
Saturday, October 28, High Line Canal History and Nature Walk

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2016 Past Events
Thursday, January 28, Annual Meeting and special guest "Abe Lincoln" presenter, John Voehl
​Thursday, March 17, In the Beginning, Jim Weglarz, Larry Schlupp, Tim Weber, and Blake Graham
Saturday, May 14, Lamb Spring/Miksch-Helmer cabin tour
Saturday, June 18, Slocum Cabin tour
Saturday, July 16, Miksch-Helmer Cabin tour
​Saturday, August 13, Fly'n B picnic
Saturday, September 24, Riverside Cemetery field trip

Thursday, October 20, Ghost Stories with Shaun Boyd
Saturday, November 12, Audubon Nature Center field trip

2015 Past Events

Thursday, January 29, Annual Meeting and Guest Speaker Jack Warner on "Lamb Spring"
Wednesday, March 18, History of Lockheed Martin with Ralph Dergance
Thursday, April 23, Buffalo Bill Experience with "Gunny" Jeff Norman
Friday, July 17, Melanie Grothe on Mountain Jeannie
Saturday, August 22, Tour of Miksch-Helmer cabin and Lamb Spring
Thursday, September 24, Exploring Douglas County History with the Castle Rock Writers
Thursday, October 22, Roxborough Geology with Roxborough State Park Naturalist Roger Dowell


2014 Past Events
Thursday, January 30, Annual Meeting and Guest Speaker Jeff Broome
Saturday April 12, Living on the Rocks, Guest Speaker Archaeologist Todd McMahon
Saturday May 3, Tour of History Colorado Center
Friday, June 27, History of Douglas County Law Enforcement 1859-2014, Guest speaker Attila Denes
Saturday, July 19, Miksch-Helmer Cabin Tour
Saturday, August 2, Palmer Lake historical bus tour and ice cream social with the Palmer Lake Historical Society

Saturday, September 20, Miksch-Helmer Cabin Tour
Tuesday, September 23, Margaret Coel, "My Journey with the Arapahos Through History and Mystery"

Thursday, October 23, Author Gail Beaton, Historical Women of Colorado

2013 Past Events
Past events:
Saturday August 24, 2013 Clean-up and Tour of the Miksch-Helmer Cabin - Members Only
Saturday, September 14, 2013 Tour of the Miksch-Helmer Cabin
Saturday, September 28, 2013 Tour of the Miksch-Helmer Cabin
Saturday, September 21, 2013 - Field Trip to visit the Larkspur Historical Society's Crull - Hammond Cabin

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