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What’s next for the Arapahoe City monument near Golden? Marker recognizing Jeffco’s first gold-rush community celebrates 78th anniversary with uncertain future BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
On April 28, 1946, Goldenites both young and old gathered to dedicate a monument honoring “the almost forgotten, but once prosperous placer camp of Arapahoe City,” according to Colorado Transcript archives. Students from the nearby Fairmount School collected rocks from the stream for the monument along West 44th Avenue near McIntyre Street. Local civic groups erected it with a plaque explaining how the immediate area was once home to Jefferson County’s first gold-rush community. Now, exactly 78 years later, the community-erected monument stands behind a fence on private property. Anyone interested in reading the plaque should either bring binoculars or a camera, as the text is hardly visible from the public right-of-way. The monument recognizing Arapahoe City sits behind a fence April 25 near West 44th Avenue and McIntyre Street in unincorSEE WHAT’S NEXT, P2
porated northeast Golden. Arapahoe City, which was established in the general area in 1858, was Jefferson County’s earliest PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN gold-rush community.
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