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“Enderud.”
“Briscoe”
imprisoned in the concentration camp, he lost all of his holdings but when he was released, the Dorr company paid all of his back wages.
He often talked about Castle Rock needing a swimming pool and he directed his heirs to give the town a portion of his estate to go towards a pool upon his death.
The pool at 22 N. Gilbert was built in 1967 using $10,000 that was donated by Burgess’ estate. The pool was rst named the Castle Rock Pool then the Centennial Pool before being named the Burgess Pool in 1986 when the current bathhouse was constructed.
I bought
my rst
home in
Founder’s Village in 1985, and always wondered about the main street into Founder’s o Highway 86 that is named
My research discovered that Mary Briscoe Enderud bears the name of two streets-- is the
name of a street
north of the
Walgreen’s o
Wilcox, which
is where the courthouse and jail were when I was a state trooper in Douglas County in the 1980’s.
Mary Briscoe Enderud, the only daughter of Cole and Ina Briscoe, was
born in Castle Rock on September
12, 1896 and passed away at Swedish Hospital on October 3, 1958. She had graduated from Douglas County High School and completed Nurse’s Training at Mercy Hospital in Denver.
She is described as being fearless and outspoken in her beliefs and opinions and maintained a rigid code of ethics throughout her life. She was respectful and appreciative but never awed by rank or personality. (The descriptions of folks in these news articles are so di erent from what we experience today!) It is interesting that one of her pallbearers was Charles A. Prescott, namesake of a street in Founder’s Village!
Mary’s husband, Henry Enderud, earned the Purple Heart Award in 1980, some 60 years after being hit with shell fragments from a high explosive shell that hit a ditch Enderud stepped into on October 3, 1918 during World War I.
Enderud came to Douglas County via a railroad working crew in 1916 but decided to make Castle Rock his home and worked at Frink’s Creamery until he decided to join the military. The research also indicated that Enderud joined the Army when he was 26 years old because he thought the job he had at the dynamite plant in Louviers was too dangerous! After a brief stateside
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