Flagpole and Marker on Genesee Mountain
A built-up stone base 55 inches wide at the bottom and 48 inches high on which is mounted a metal flagpole and on the southwest face of which is mounted a bronze plaque 14 1/2 x 8 inches, located at the top of Genesee Mountain in Genesee Park, a Denver mountain park. The United States Flag, and for the past several years the Colorado flag, have been presented to the City of Denver each year on Flag Day, June 14. In 1973, the chapter gave to the city a new flagpole with flags to replace the old flagpole given June 14, 1911. The continuing gift of flags commemorates both the bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the granting of statehood to Colorado in 1876. Faces Southwest.
Inscription: On each Flag Day since June 14, 1911, Ellis Meredith Chapter, NSDAR, presents a new flag to the City and County of Denver for this standard.
Four Mile House Marker
In 1941, the Ellis Meredith Chapter, NSDAR, sponsored the Four Mile House as a historical monument by the NSDAR. Four Mile Historic Park is a jewel of history, preservation, and education located between Glendale and Denver on the banks of Cherry Creek. One of the original “Mile” houses, and the last stop before making a grand entrance into Denver, it has served many purposes over the years from a stop on the Cherokee Trail, to farming, ranching, dairy production, and currently as home to the oldest standing residential structure in the metropolitan area (built in 1859). Four Mile has remained mostly intact while the rest of the world changed and evolved around it.
Inscription: 4 Mile House, erected about 1858.
Other markers include
Auraria marker (NW corner Speer/Market St),
Baker’s Spring marker (east side of West Colfax viaduct),
Denver Museum of Natural History marker (left of stage at Ricketson Auditorium),
John Patrick House plaque (Genessee Park),
Mamie Doud Eisenhower home marker (750 Lafayette St), and
Washington Elm Scion marker (Washington Park).