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Golden is the Home Rule Municipality that is the governmental center of county of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Golden lies along Clear Creek at the base of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
Founded amid the Pike's Peak Gold Rush on 16 June 1859, the quarrying camp was originally titled Golden City with respect to Thomas L.
Golden City served as the capital of the provisional Territory of Jefferson from 1860 to 1861, and capital of the official Territory of Colorado from 1862 to 1867.
The Colorado School of Mines, offering programs in engineering and science, is positioned in Golden.
Also there are the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, National Earthquake Information Center, Coors Brewing Company, Coors - Tek, Spyderco, American Mountaineering Center, and Colorado Railroad Museum.
Established as a gold-rush town, Golden City quickly became a dominant economic and political center of the region, being a center of trade between the gold fields and the east, a crossroads and gateway of meaningful roads dominant to the mountain peaks, and a center of region industry.
Golden City was established on 16 June 1859 along Clear Creek west of Denver, titled in honor of Thomas L.
Loveland and George West were among the first to settle in Golden. By the end of 1860, Golden City had been popularly propel the seat of Jefferson County and was capital of the provisional Jefferson Territory.
As drafted in the territorial constitution, the capital of the Jefferson Territory was initially proposed to be Golden, then with a populace of 700, as a result of its adjacency to mountain quarrying towns, and greater ability to hold a congressional quorum than had Denver. Golden City was temporarily removed from the status of territory capital as a result of an act passed on 5 November 1861 by the territorial government.
Colorado City, a small town to the south of Denver became the new temporary territorial capital, but saw only one short event at this location.
While the town lost much of its populace and dominant citizenry amid the American Civil War for a several reasons (ranging from military to economic), Golden City became capital of the federally recognized Colorado Territory on 2 August 1862, closing as such until 1867. It was the time reconstructionbetween 1862 and the early 1870s that a fierce barns competition advanced between Denver, ten miles to the east, and Golden.
By the mid-1860s, Golden held only an appellation status as territorial capital clean water serve as the legitimate origin of territorial power.
Denver, the increasingly larger and more advanced city, was the concentrated core of meaningful territorial occasions, with the Governor residing in Denver, and territorial government meetings occurring there as well.
The people and supporters of Golden realized that a spur from Golden to the new transcontinental barns , running through Cheyenne, Wyoming, 100 miles to the north, was the only possibility for Golden to reemerge as the dominant heart of commerce in the territory.
Loveland established the Colorado Central Railroad on 9 February 1865 to do just this. With Golden beginning talk of creating a barns , prominent Denver inhabitants raced to do the same.
In an appeal to the inhabitants of Denver, The Rocky Mountain News, which was based in Denver itself, wrote an article imploring the people of Denver to vote to fun a barns ; "If we vote $500,000 in bonds to the Denver Pacific stockyards all is well.
By 1869, the barns race to Cheyenne was becoming less and less of a race, as the Denver Pacific Railway pulled ahead of the struggling Colorado Central Railroad.
Realizing they were going to lose the race to Cheyenne, the Colorado Central began expanding west into mountain communities such as Georgetown, Black Hawk, and Central City, all areas established on and concentrated in silver mining. Golden, having then sidetracked into servicing various close-by mountain communities, continued to fall behind the pace set by the Denver barns , and by 1870, officially lost the race to Cheyenne.
However, The Colorado Central Railroad connected directly with Cheyenne seven years later, in 1877, but by that point, the race with Denver had been lost.Although Golden's Colorado Central Railroad offered a challenge to Denver's barns , the better funded Denver Pacific Railway was able to connect to Cheyenne far more quickly than Golden, securing for Denver its long term status as both capital and prominent city.
Golden City became the "Lowell of the West", a county-wide center of trade and trade that boasted at certain times three flour mills, five smelters, the first barns into the Colorado mountain peaks, the Coors Brewery, brick works, the only paper foundry west of Missouri, clay and coal mines, and more.
During the 1870s, it became home to three establishments of higher education, the Colorado University Schools, of which the Colorado School of Mines remains today.
Golden was also home to an opera home and seven churches, including Colorado's third (Methodist) church, earliest Baptist church, likely earliest Christian (Disciples of Christ) church, and first Swedish immigrant (Lutheran) church.
The town was home to sizeable populations of German, Swedish, Italian and Chinese immigrants; five immigrants became mayors of Golden.
Golden became even more connected through mass transit, with two street car lines extending to Denver, while the movie theater gradually took the place of the opera home for downtown entertainment.
A number of new subdivisions were assembled and enhance transit framework was modernized, including new buildings for the senior high school, town/city hall, recreation center, library, exhibition and central fire and police stations.
In 1993 the old Golden High School building was converted into the American Mountaineering Center, making Golden a research and education core for mountaineering.
The Coors Brewery had turn into the biggest single-site brewery in the world, its porcelain subsidiary among the foremost of its kind, and Golden became home to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Today Golden has a populace of over 18,000 citizens and is home to more citizens and businesses of nationwide and global influence than ever before, yet maintains a small-town historic identity.
A Golden mailing address may also represent one of a several communities in unincorporated Jefferson County to the north and west of Golden, communities undergoing continual residentiary evolution of former farm, ranch and quarrying land and which possess a considerable population.
Golden lies just north of I-70 and west of Denver at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
It is situated between Lookout Mountain and the two Table Mountains, Golden lies inside a sheltered valley fed by Clear Creek.
Clear Creek flows through town from the west, out of its canyon shared by US 6, and exits the valley it carved between North Table Mountain and South Table Mountain and in which is positioned the Coors Brewery.
Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado Golden is home to possibly the most exhibitions per capita of any place in Colorado, including the Golden History Center, Astor House Hotel Museum, Clear Creek History Park, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Colorado Railroad Museum, Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum, and the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum.
Golden is home to the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra, which performs cyclicly at Bunker Auditorium in the Green Center at the Colorado School of Mines, and has performed continuously since 1953.
Golden has a several annual affairs, which include E-Days of the Colorado School of Mines in April (since 1927), the Golden Music Festival at Clear Creek History Park, Independence Day fireworks shows sponsored the Golden Lions Club (since 1972), the biggest event of the year is Buffalo Bill Days in late July (since 1946); the Golden Fine Arts Festival in August (since 1990), and Olde Golden Christmas (since 1972) in November to December.
The American Mountaineering Center is home to the American Alpine Club, The Colorado Mountain Club, and Outward Bound.
American Alpine Club Library and Colorado Mountain Club Collection is the world's biggest repository of mountaineering literature and is internationally known.
This premier facility and the town's locale near plenty of world class modern climbing, skiing and mountaineering make Golden a center for mountaineering culture.
The city's grow beer culture supports a several microbreweries including: Golden City Brewery, Mountain Toad Brewing, Cannonball Creek Brewing Company, and Barrels & Bottles Brewery.
Golden was where the Beer business had its start and it has kept its Headquarters in the town/city ever since its beginning in 1873.
Golden High School competes in various sports in 4 - A competition in Colorado, and its football program dates as far back as the 1890s.
Clear Creek is also home to a nationally famous kayak course, and the town/city is home to the American Mountaineering Center and features noteworthy modern climbing, mountain biking, hiking, and hang gliding opportunities in close proximity.
Golden is a home rule municipality of the town/city form of statutory government in Colorado.
The council hires and supervises the town/city manager, who hires and supervises the town/city staff, which handles the daily operations of the city.
Golden was among the first municipally governed metros/cities in Colorado and has one of the earliest continuously functioning governments in the state.
To date Golden has held 91 prominent elections for municipal officials since its first such election in 1860, including 85 regular elections and 6 special elections in 1860, 1879, 1882, 2005, 2006 and 2008.
Golden, originally home to the second school in Colorado, is today part of the Jefferson County R-1 School District which provides enhance education throughout Jefferson County, Colorado.
The town/city has five elementary schools, Mitchell, Kyffin, Shelton, Pleasant View and Ralston Elementary in the foothills to the west; one middle school, Bell Middle School; and Colorado's earliest senior high school, Golden High School.
In higher education, Golden features the earliest enhance college in the state, the Colorado School of Mines, which can be found a several blocks south of downtown Golden situated on a hill overlooking the city.
Near Mines is the Mountain Language Institute, an English language school providing classes both in Golden and online.
The chief part of Golden is laid out upon a historic street grid fitness running on an approximately northwest southeast axis, aligned with Clear Creek upon which the heart of the town/city was established.
Golden's streets are generally numbered on the east west streets, and titled on the north south streets, and are titled after pioneers, American Indian tribes and trees.
Outlying subdivisions of Golden consist of their own, often curvilinear street systems, of various degrees of connection with the rest of the city.
Golden has a several main thoroughfare street connections to the east which date to the Gold Rush times, including West 44th Avenue, West 32nd Avenue and South Golden Road.
Since its beginning, Golden has been at a crossroads of primary Colorado thoroughfares.
Highway 6 (US 6), which turns into 6th Avenue, is a historic thoroughfare (built in 1950) which runs east west through the southern part of the town/city then curves northward through the part of Golden, ultimately arriving at the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon.
SH 58 bisects Golden on an east west route between 6th and 7th Streets, and ultimately joins to go up Clear Creek Canyon.
Golden is part of the network of the Regional Transportation District which provides bus and light rail service throughout the Denver urbane area.
Its bus routes 16, GS, and Sky - Ride F (once a day) connect Golden with other points of the Denver urbane region and Boulder.
The West Corridor (W line) of the Fas - Tracks light rail line, which alongsides 6th Avenue into Golden to its terminal at the Jefferson County Government Center, opened to the enhance April 26, 2013.
This is a undivided version of the historic street car line that Golden interests spearheaded in the 1890s. At the same time the W Line opened, a Community Call-n-Ride bus launched in Golden offering flexible service along with regular stops inside the town/city itself.
The closest airport to Golden is close-by Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, a general aviation air transport facility positioned in northeastern Jefferson County.
Main article: List of citizens from Golden, Colorado "Golden Daily Transcript" via Golden History Center.
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