Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2024 09 16

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many Italian immigrants who came to Louisville in the early 1900s to work in the coal mines. Angelo, his wife Maria (Mary) Corone (1876-1939), and young son Atilio sailed to NY in 1904 on the ship La Bretagne. His brother Baptista and family were already living in Louisville at the time. After arriving in Louisville, the Bottinellis initially lived on La Farge and later Cannon St., both well populated with other Italian families. By 1918, the Bottinellis are listed in the Louisville Directory as living at 520 Front which is an early address number for 1025 Front. Angelo and Maria had four children: Atilio "Tealie" (1900-1986), Stella (1906-2006), Charles (1908-1999), and Dolinda (1910-2006). They raised their children and lived on Front Street for the next twenty years until Maria's death in 1939. During that time, Angelo worked as a coal miner and was a member of the United Mine Workers of America and the St. Louis Church. In the 1920s, Louisville experienced the same growing tensions and divisions from larger movements such as the rise of the KKK and labor unrest that were happening across the U.S. As a member of the United Mine Workers, Angelo, and his son Tealie would have been present during large scale labor strikes throughout Colorado's Northern Coal Fields, including the 1927 Columbine Mine Strike when state militia fired on protesting miners and their families. This photo shows members of the 1st East Drivers at the Monarch Mine in 1927. Mule drivers were well - respected and responsible for the training and daily work of mules pulling coal carts in the mines. Tealie Bottinelli is shown on the right with his mule "Brigham" In an oral history interview with Gene Tavone in the 1970s, Tavone discusses the presence of the KKK in Louisville and recalls that a cross was burned on Tealie Bottinelli's front yard. This would have been in the mid-1920s when the Bottinelli's were living at 1025 Front Street. It is known that some Louisville residents and Klan members from surrounding towns, carried out an anti- immigrant and anti-Catholic agenda by parading down Main Street and burning crosses.