ATDTDA (7): 199-200 Castle Rock Resort

[Keith]

"Why don't we go up Castle Rock to that amusement park and have us a  
few beers?" (200)

The reference to Castle Rock is less likely to the town (which is  
south of Golden, not 'up') but to the mountain overlooking Golden  
atop which one Charles Quaintance built his Castle Rock Resort  
initially accessible by burro and later by train.

"Throughout the 19th century South Table Mountain remained largely a  
wilderness or a grazing area under multiple ownership, with Charles  
Clark Welch pre-empting the portion of it containing Castle Rock. He  
leased this to Charles F. Quaintance in 1908, when Quaintance sought  
to make good on the idea of a Castle Rock resort which had been  
tossed around in the community since the 1890s. He constructed a  
burro trail to the rock, and constructed a dance pavilion at its  
southwest corner in 1908. In 1913 he turned this into a full-fledged  
recreation resort, building a funicular up the northwest flank of the  
slope to the Rock and building a new, larger dance pavilion at the  
northwest corner of the Rock, with a steel tower lighthouse standing  
at the western edge of the Rock between the buildings. The original  
building was converted into a cafeteria. Upon the closure of the  
resort around 1923, it was converted into the regional meeting place  
of the Ku Klux Klan, which held key positions of power in Colorado  
and portions of the United States at this time. Nighttime initiations  
and demonstrations were recorded to take place atop the rock, with  
crosses burned at its highest point near the northwest edge. The  
resort buildings burned in 1927 due to arsonists of disputed origin,  
and by the end of the 1920s the last structural elements of the  
Castle Rock buildings were swept away by the elements. Most metallic  
elements remaining from the resort, including funicular rails and the  
metal fencing ringing the rock, were salvaged for World War II war  
efforts."   http://tinyurl.com/2dosct

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http://tinyurl.com/27tzaa

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