The Unsinkable Molly Brown - March 2009

Molly Brown House

also known as House of Lions

1340 Pennsylvania St.Denver, Colorado

Margaret Brown became known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown because she survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was not called Molly during her life - her friends called her Maggie. She was born in Hannibal, Missouri, and at age 18, moved to Leadville, Colorado where she worked in a department store.

She met her husband in Leadville, and although she had intentions of marrying a rich man, she married JJ, a poor man, for love. Later, JJ was paid 12,500 shares of stock and a seat on the board for his engineering design at a mining company. This made them a rich couple. They separated after 23 years of marriage, but remained connected the rest of their lives.

Molly was a women's rights activist and a philanthropist and one of the first students to enroll at the Carnegie Institute in New York.

The Brown's 1889 home was built by the architect, Willam Lang. We were there on Sunday, and the house wasn't open, but we looked at the outside and then walked around the neighborhood of the historic Hilltop neighborhood.

Denver, CO area - February 2008

Buffalo Bill Cody Gravesite Lookout Mountain - Golden, Colorado

On June 3, 1917, Buffalo Bill was buried on Lookout Mountain, a promontory with spectacular views of both the mountains and plains, places where he had spent the happiest times of his life. Louisa, who had married Buffalo Bill back before he became famous, was buried next to her husband four years later in 1921. http://www.buffalobill.org/history.htm


Evergreen, Colorado

Evergreen, 7,220 ft elev, sits at the foothills of the Rockies. A small mountain town 15 miles west of Denver, it is showing signs of becoming a Denver bedroom community - to the dismay of local residents.