Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2014 11 05

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• John Connell, who was born in 1861, lived in Louisville at the time of the 1885 Colorado state census, and went on to become a Denver -based coal mine operator. • Thomas Carlton, who was born in 1824 in Cumberland, England. English census records show that he was a "colliery viewer," which was a position similar to that of a foreman. The Carlton family immigrated to the US in the 1870s. By 1880, Tom Carlton was a mining engineer in Gold Hill in Boulder County, and by 1885, he was living in Louisville with his family. Records indicate that he was a preacher for Louisville's English settlers who met in private homes prior to the building of the Methodist Church and that he personally raised $800 for the building. He died in January 1892, not long after the death of his wife and shortly before the death of his son, David. • David Carlton, who was the son of Thomas Carlton. He was born in 1848 in Cumberland, England. He died in 1892. Records indicate that significant financing for the Acme Mine came from Isaac L. Bond. Bond was a prominent businessman in Boulder and served as mayor of Boulder from 1891 to 1893. He also had extensive mining interests. Records indicate that the United Coal Company owned and operated the Acme Mine starting in 1893. (References to the "Louisville Coal Mining Company" as a one -time owner of the Acme Mine could not be established as being accurate.) In 1901, Northern Coal & Coke Company took over ownership and operations, records show. (Photos showing this name on the roof of the Acme tipple are therefore presumed to date from 1901 or after.) In 1911, Rocky Mountain Fuel Company acquired the mine and was the owner /operator of the Acme Mine until the mine closed in 1928. Rocky Mountain Fuel Company continued to own the property for many years. Location and Associated Buildings: This mine was located at approximately the intersection of Roosevelt Ave. and Hutchinson St. in Louisville. The shaft was located on the southwest corner of that intersection with the tipple over it. Some associated buildings were located on the north side of Hutchinson. Acme Mine structures and features are believed to have included the following. • A primary building was the tipple, from which mine cars were brought up the shaft and "tipped" to load coal into railroad cars. The mine shaft extended into the ground from this building. A cage in the shaft transported miners in and out of the mine and brought up coal cars filled with coal. 5