100 years ago: CORTEZ– “Chief Ignacio of the Southern Utes, embracing the Moache, Capote and Weminuche tribes, died at Navajo Springs from old age. The dead chief was about 85 years of age.”
75 years ago: “Arthur C. Fassbinder passed away. In 1975, still six years before the founding of the city, Art, a 14-year-old boy, came to the present site of Durango with his father’s family. Peter Fassbinder, the father, homesteaded what is now North Durango or a goodly portion thereof. ... Arthur was the last of the Durango Fassbinder family.”
50 years ago: “The ‘business as usual’ sign is in effect at city hall, however, not at the same city hall. City personnel moved into the newly built, modern office building at Second Avenue and Ninth Street. From the brightly lit interior of the new building, dedicated as a memorial to Durango’s war dead, the city personnel can look across the street at the new public safety building.”
25 years ago: “Leonard C. Burch, chairman of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, has been invited to meet with President Ronald Reagan in the White House Cabinet Room. Burch and other tribal chairmen were invited to meet with Reagan to discuss remarks Reagan made when he was visiting Moscow last summer.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
