We have many properties in Englewood, Colorado. It’s a unique community that actually started out as a temporary camp for gold panning in the South Platte River. William Green Russel and 12 other miners found more gold at this camp than in all of their previous prospecting. This triggered the “Pikes Peak or Bust” gold rush of 1859.
In 1864, Thomas Skerritt claimed the 640 acres that would become Englewood. More homesteaders began filing in over the next 16 years and by 1880, Denver’s roads were extended south and street blocks were laid out. Gamblers built saloons and roadhouses in the Orchard Place community of Englewood, attracting cheap liquor, fancy women, and dirty men initiating shootings and knifings. In 1903, citizens voted to become a city with a government so they could clean up Orchard Place and make the community safer. Englewood, meaning “wooded nook,” was the name given. Englewood grew into a desirable city, but stayed a tight-knit community looked after its own, helping each other with work and feeding each other in the soup kitchen during the Great Depression. After World War II, industries building manufacturing plants in Englewood, and the largest shopping mall west of the Mississippi opened there. Since then, Englewood has grown, but kept its hometown spirit.
Englewood’s Neighborhood Watch program is one of the most successful in the nation, their population’s participation in civic and volunteer programs is exceptionally high, and many organizations and programs offer assistance to neighbors that are elderly or disabled.
“Englewood has been described as a community with a small-town feel and big city amenities.”
For more information about Englewood, visit their government website: https://www.englewoodgov.org/
