From President Taft’s speech at the 1909 Grand Junction Peach Festival, to Franklin Roosevelt’s 1938 whistle-stop train tour at the historic depot, here are 11 times an American President visited the Grand Valley. LOOK: 11 Presidents Who Have Visited Grand Junction Over the Years Of the 31 American Presidents who have served since Colorado became a state in 1876, several have stopped in the Grand Valley. President Taft and Colorado’s National Monument11 Presidents Who Have Actually Been To Colorado's Grand Valley Getty Images loading...Read More: Colorado Counties, Cities, and Streets Named After US PresidentsWhen President William Howard Taft came to Western Colorado in 1909, he made a few stops. His train went to Montrose to see the Gunnison Tunnel, and then on to Grand Junction to speak at the Peach Festival. Check out a timeline of significant events that brought Grand Junction from the frontier to a small city from 1880 to 1900.