Denver Web Quest
Go to once there complete the web quest by answering all the questions. You are to work by yourself. Good Luck.
**Scroll down on the page. Click the arrows on the right hand side untilGold Rush Denver: The Real Old West. Appears on the screen** Click on the learn more tab.
Scroll down.
**Confluence Park**
1. Where is Confluence Park? What is interesting about this park?
**Larimer Square**
2. Where is Larimer Square located? (Streets/ Bold lettering)
3. How many people came to Colorado between 1858-1860?
4. What organization created Apollo Hall? What was it?
**LODO and Union Station**
5. What is LoDO? ( Street)
6. What does the vintage buildings show about Denver?
7. When did people begin to arrive by train? What street did they arrive on?
8. What happened to Union Station in 1894?
**Molly Brown House**
9. Who is Molly Brown? What is her nickname? How did she get it?
10. List the different items that can be seen at her house?
**Capital Building**
11. What makes the dome of the capital building “sparkle?”
**Scroll down to where it says ***Early Denver History *** Click on the learn more tab. Scroll down and begin reading.
12. What was another way to “strike it rich” in Boomtowns?
13. Why did Larimer name the city after a Kansa Senator?
14. What happened to Denver in 1863 and 1864?
15. What happened that made Derverites raise $300,000? What was the plan after raising the money?
16. What mineral was mined that created another boom in Colorado?
**When the words on the page begin to be dark grey then you are reading an interview with Dr. Tom Noel aka “Dr.Colorado”.**
17. What did Rose Kingsley say about Denver?
18. Why did the city Denver survive and not become a ghost town?
19. Who are three main characters that helped Denver thrive. Describe what each person did to help the town.
20. Describe what early Denver looked like.
21. Who mined the miners?(several different types of people)
**Scroll down to Denver’s Railway History.**Click on the learn more tab
22. What was considered the lifeline of every mining camp?
23. By 1880 how many train stations were there? What eventually happened to them?
24. Describe Union Station and the layout of the building.
25. Where is the Colorado Railroad museum?
26. What are the Special events at the Railroad Museum?
27. When did the railroad reach Georgetown?
28. Describe the challenge of getting the Railroad to Silver Plume.
29. Describe Tiny town, its history and what it is like today!
**Scroll down to Denver’s African-American Heritage ***Click on the learn more tab
**Black American West Museum**
30. What myth is put to rest by the Black American West Museum?
31. What roles did African Americans play in the west?
32. Explain the story of Dearfield.
** Barney Ford**
33. Who is Barney Ford (retell his story)?
34. What town did Barney and his wife live in?
**Five Points**
35. What is the history behind the Five points?
36. In some circles the five point area was known as ______.
37. Name famous African Americans who visited this area in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
**Scroll down to Denver’s Beer History. ***Click on the learn more tab
Denver’s early year and Early Beers
38. What street was the hub of activity located on? What was formed in the Apollo Hall?
Coors Conquers Colorado
39. How did Adolf Coors come to America?
40. What was the nickname given to the amber liquid that Coors’s brewed?
41. What remains the same with Coors’ brewing style even to this day?
Denver’s Dry Years
42. What year did prohibition hit Colorado? How long did it last?
43. Describe Gahan’s Saloon before and during prohibition.
Microbrewery Explosion
45. What is Denver’s nickname that is associated with beer?
46. Name the two largest microbreweries in Denver.
47. Who is one of the Wynkoop’s founders that is now the govern of Colorado?
**Scroll down to Know your History.**Click on the learn more tab
48. Where is the History Colorado Center Located? What does this place do?
49. What is the Denver Story Trek? Would you want to go on it? Why or Why not?
50. Name and explain five new things you learned today. List and explain three places you now want to visit in the Denver area.