Governor William Bradford

Pueblo's own East Side story

1. Known as the father of East Pueblo, he developed the first subdivision in 1872 and had close to 50 homes under construction by 1873 when a national economic depression stripped him of his wealth and seriously curtailed the development of the East Side until the 1880s. Who was he?

2.  He was arguably the most important early East Sider. He submitted a treatise on economic policy showcased at the Chicago’s World’s Fair in 1893, served as city councilman for many years and was one of the first to market small brick cottages to the working-class smelter families. Who was he?

3. While Bessemer had it’s CF&I Steel Mill, the East Side had its own behemoth, a gritty industry that literally loomed over the neighborhood, employing about half of its residents until it was destroyed by the 1921 flood. What was it?

4. This East Side resident was a jack-of-all-trades, played in the Cowboy Band, served in the fire department and penned an enormously successful novel called “Waiting for the Signal” in 1897. It advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government for a socialist democracy. The book circulated widely across the country and had many reprintings. Who was he?

5. He was a prominent builder who constructed the Central Block and McLaughlin building Downtown. A rendering of his turreted house on East Eighth Street was featured in The Pueblo Chieftain as one of the city’s finest residences in 1891. The stone on the first floor of his house may be ‘recycled’ remnants of one of Pueblo’s multistory commercial blocks Downtown. Who was he?

6. The East Side has gone by two other names in its history; the most recent moniker (now almost forgotten) was shared with this prominent East Denver neighborhood. What was it called?

7. In a surge of growth and neighborhood pride in the 1920s, the East Pueblo Neighborhood Improvement Association fought to rename what important transportation corridors?

8. Contractor Benjamin Harry Morris' home at 820 E. Sixth St. is an exquisite showcase for the new and innovative building material which gained acceptance as an acceptable housing material in the 1910s and ’20s. What was it?

9. Destroyed in the 1921 flood and never rebuilt, what important bridge served as a commercial artery into the bustling working-class neighborhoods of the lower East Side?