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Evan Semón In the late 1800s, Presbyterian ministers came up with the idea of establishing a “Princeton of the West” in the Denver area. Henry J. Mayham, a native of New York who’d moved to Colorado, realized that land he owned between Denver and Boulder might increase in value if a Presbyterian university was set up nearby, so he donated 640 acres of land to the Denver Presbytery. Forty acres of that donation would be used for the campus of Westminster University, eighty acres for a farm to support and feed the school, and the rest divided up and sold for the predicted community that would develop around the project. ....
For eighty years, the state historical society had two thick ledgers in its possession that went largely unnoticed by anyone other than researchers who knew what they were looking for. The ledgers belonged to a private organization and included details about the men who d attended meetings of that organization, including their names, addresses, professions and whether they d paid their membership dues. The sort of thing you would expect any organization to keep, explains Jason Hanson, chief creative officer and director of interpretation and research at History Colorado, but then you know which organization. It was the Ku Klux Klan, which had a strong grip on the centers of power in Colorado in the mid-1920s. ....