Englewood (Colorado)
Arapahoe County
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Englewood is an American city in Arapahoe County in the U.S. state of Colorado. It has 30 255 inhabitants ( 2010). Englewood is located at 1637 m altitude in the Front Range below the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains on the South Platte River. The city today is a southwestern suburb of Denver and connected to the rail network in the region. It is served by the U.S. Highways U.S. 85 and U.S. 285 to the national road network.
History
Originally the High Plains were inhabited by Indians east of the Rocky Mountains from the peoples of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. They lived as a representative of classical Plains Indians of the bison that roamed the prairies by the millions.
The first white men in the region were the participants of the Pike Expedition, the 1806/ 07 acquired in the Louisiana Purchase explored regions and reached at the turn of the South Platte River and moved along it. Only in the 1850s, the region was significant. Some prospectors who were on the California Trail on the way to the California gold rush, explored the go, the first mountain range of the Rocky Mountains. 1858 found William Green Russell and colleagues 12 gold at the Little Dry Creek and founded a gold digger camp at the mouth of the creek in the South Platte River in what is now the city of Englewood. They were successful and the Colorado Gold Rush began.
1864 reported Thomas and Mary Skerritt to a claim on a property settlement after the Homestead Act, which included a large part of today's city. In the following years came more settlers, the land was divided, sold, divided again and to about 1880 three population centers Petersburg, Cherrelyn and Orchard Place, as well as several scattered settlements arose. The agricultural base is presented mainly orchards that supplied much faster and more grown city of Denver. Thomas Skerritt himself built the first direct road from there, which was named Broadway because of its width and carries today. 1890, the region was connected to the railway network.
1903 approved the settlements to join together and form an administrative unit with political self-government. She got the name Englewood because of the high proportion of forest, the difference of the area of the surrounding plains and semi-deserts. Since 1892 there was a school, in the following years, a hospital, several theaters and a tram.
It settled in industrial companies, including 1923 Alexander Industries, a small manufacturer of aircraft, and 1924 General Iron Works, whose steelworks to the decline of the steel industry in Colorado and the closure in 1985 was the main employer in the town.
Englewood today
The city today has a very small-scale economic structure. She has more jobs and businesses per unit area than any other places in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado, while she remains in average income well below the average for the metropolitan Denver.
The city is almost completely built and surrounded by other densely populated settlements, green spaces there are in the form of city parks that were created in the 1960s and 70s, with funding from the federal government. Central functions for the region perceive several hospitals in Englewood. It is also home to the headquarters of the global telecommunications company Liberty Global. Even the major U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network and its technical service provider EchoStar have their headquarters in the city.
The city has since 2007 been twinned with Belém in Lower Saxony.
Sons and daughters Englewood
- David Eugene Edwards, musicians and singers
- Amy Van Dyken, swimmer