Colorado Springs founder William Jackson Palmer was the land-grantor of several institutions in Colorado Springs, including the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind.
Personal papers of General William Jackson Palmer, the city's founder are also included in the center's collection.
Bransby was contracted to restore murals made by Randall Davey that included exploration of the area by Zebulon Pike, Native American scenes, Cripple Creek gold discovery and General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs.
William Shakespeare | Michael Jackson | William Laud | Andrew Jackson | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | Peter Jackson | William McKinley | Janet Jackson | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | Jackson | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | Jackson Pollock | Jackson, Mississippi | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | Samuel L. Jackson | William Gibson | William Wilberforce |
In 1879, Charles Elliott Perkins, a friend of William Jackson Palmer, purchased 480 acres of land that included a portion of the present Garden of the Gods.
He then moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, which had been founded by Charlotte's brother-in-law, General William Jackson Palmer.