6th Annual Erie Biscuit Day00

Mark your calendars and join the community for Erie Biscuit Day!!

September 20, 2008
8:00am until Noon
Historic Downtown Erie, CO on Briggs Street

Sausage Stew - Biscuits Gravy - Coffee - Juice - Water- Milk
Music - Cake Walk - Drawings- Craft Booths - Farmer’s Market
Historical Photos - Stew Contest with local business owners

THANK YOU 2008 Sponsors and Supporters

Town of Erie, United Power and Republic Services for your generous cash donations to the Erie Historical Society

Our Media Sponsors – How could we get the word out without with out them?!
Camera, Yellow Scene Magazine, Carbon Valley Consumer

Food! What would Erie Biscuit Day be without Food and Drink?!
Thank you Erie Café, Zupa Euromerican Café, KABBU, The Western Dairy Association,
Costco, Trina Cakes and Royal Crest Dairy

THANK YOU supporters and local businesses for helping to make this day a success for the community!
The Erie Chamber of Commerce, Raye Harris Photography, Life Song Church of Erie, Town and Country, Event Construction, Omni Productions.

All proceeds go to the Erie Historical Society and the Erie Wise Homestead Museum

Biscuit Day celebrates historic Erie

Sept. 20 is Erie’s sixth annual Biscuit Day. It’s the biggest fund-raiser of the year for the Erie Historical Society. EHS president Sarah Wise said last year’s event raised more than $6,000 for the organization.

The Biscuit Day tradition goes back to the 1870s. “It was going for a few years when Erie was formed,” Wise said.

Erie was incorporated as a town in 1874. At the original Biscuit Day, there were fresh-baked biscuits and bowls of mulligan stew. Ladies ate free. “There were three or four bakers in town and they made the biscuits,” Wise said. “The women made the stew.” There was also homemade apple-butter and a variety of homemade jams and jellies at the event.

Most likely, Biscuit Day was one of the final community gatherings before the men returned to work in the coal mines. In Erie, the mines were closed in the summers because the particular type of coal that was mined in the area would disintegrate in hot weather.

Read more online at dailycamera.com by Carol Taylor

Looking for Volunteers for Biscuit Days

We Continue to Accept AND Welcome
Sponsors and Volunteers

Please Contact Stacey at Stacey.alexander32@gmail.com
or leave a message at 303-828-2870

Free talk on mining and its effects on community - Greg Sherman

2008 Erie Historical Society Raffle Tickets On Sale Now

Erie Historical Society Raffle

1^st Prize Hand Made Quilt

2^nd Prize $100 Savings Bond

3^rd Prize $50 Savings Bond

Tickets $2 or 3 for $5

Winners Drawn September 20

At Biscuit Day Celebration

The Interfaith Quilters of Longmont made this beautiful quilt by hand and machine.  Raffle tickets are available NOW.  The cost is $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00–a small investment for a beautiful quilt. Beginning May 17th (at The Erie Fair) many members will have tickets for sale and if you want some, please call me 303.828.4561 and I will deliver them to you.

Erie Historical Society Update 5/15/2008

Historical Talk: Underground Railroad - Bonnie Carmody

Please join us Tuesday, February 26th at 7:00pm at the Erie Middle School Auditorium for a Historical Talk. Bonnie Carmody will be talking about the Underground Railroad. The talk will cover the reason for the underground railroad and the symbols used by the slaves to negoiate safe travel to the north. Ms. Carmody will have pictures of some of these symbols. She will not have the quilt she made but will show blocks from her next quilt.

Bonnie Carmody was born in Boulder and went to school in Lafayette. She has lived in Longmont for 15 years and is an active member of the Quilters Group.
The book she is using is written by Ms. Tobin “Hidden in Plain View”.

Admission is free. We hope to see you there.

If you have any questions please contact Sarah Wise at 303.828.4561

2007 Erie Biscuit Days

Saturday, September 15 was the fifth annual celebration of Erie Biscuit Days. The Erie Historical Society raised approximately $6,000 on this event. Our handmade quilt was raffled off, and the lucky winner was julia Birgen. A savings bond in the amount of $100 went to Karen Raush, $50 to Dorothy Keefer. A total of 645 raffle tickets were sold, raising approximately $1,200.

Erie Colorado Coal Mines : Map

View a google map of the approximate location of coal mines in Erie, Colorado. If you have any information you would like to share about coal mines in Erie please post them in the comments section.

Blue icons are mines from the late 1800s and the red icons are mines in the 1900s.

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Wise Homestead museum open during winter via appt.

We thank all who visited the Wise Homestead Museum this summer. For this winter we will be closed except open by appointment.

We will be open next spring with additional exhibits and possible additional hours.

Check this web site for specific hours. We invite you to join us in preserving the past for the future. Please call me, Sarah Allene Wise, 303.828.4561 for more information.