Molly Brown House Museum By Courtney Lawlor On Prezi

If you've ever wanted to move to Colorado, the time is perfect to start experiencing Denver. Her husband soon became one of the most important and wealthiest mining men in the state as he turned his silver mine over to producing gold in 1893 to combat the 90 per cent unemployment rate in Leadville. The Molly Brown house is best known as the home of Denver's iconic Margaret Brown, survivor of the Titanic.

The museum is a historic, multi-level, Victorian home and is only accessible to wheelchairs on the first floor. Brown's life has been depicted on stage, in movies, and television in both fact and fiction. Home of the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Titanic heroine, restored to its original Victorian splendor.

It was a holiday weekend so this could be why The Molly Brown House was so packed but it's better to be early when planning things to do in Denver. As a mining engineer, he purchased stock in a mining company that struck gold, making the Brown's rich beyond their wildest dreams.

The unsinkable” Molly Brown got her name after she became one of the survivors of The Titanic, but she was also a crusader for women's rights. Discover the rich history of immigration to Denver by hearing about the Tobin and Brown families as well as their servants.

In 1938 the journalist Gene Fowler wrote an extraordinarily fantastical account of her life in his column Timber Line In his tale Maggie runs Colorado away from home as an illiterate 15 year old and married a 37 year old Leadville Johnny” three weeks after arriving in the mining camp”.

Throughout her life, Brown used her family name and money to fight for causes such as children's literacy, historical preservation, miner's rights, and women's suffrage. Margaret Brown was in a lifeboat like this when rescued. The Little Johnny yielded the largest vein of pure gold the Leadville mining community had ever seen.

Jamie Melissa Wilms gave a tour of the Molly Brown House Museum and talked about Denver, Colorado's Margaret Molly” Tobin Brown, better known as Unsinkable Molly Brown.” Ms. Wilms talked about how Molly Brown used her notoriety to support many social issues, including both workers' and women's rights.