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ROTATION OF STREETS (with Meaning)

The following information was obtained and re-organized from the book; Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein This book includes additional information on how the grid came together.

Please email [email protected] with any corrections/additions found.

Copy: 12-29-2016 Running East & West from South

Early businessman who homesteaded West of Broadway and South of Institutes of Higher Learning First Avenue.

2000 ASBURY AVE. 50 ARCHER PL. 2100 EVANS AVE.` 2700 YALE AVE. 100 BAYAUD AVE. 2200 WARREN AVE. 2800 AMHERST AVE. 150 MAPLE AVE. 2300 ILIFF AVE. 2900 BATES AVE. 200 CEDAR AVE. 2400 WESLEY AVE. 3000 CORNELL AVE. 250 BYERS PL. 2500 HARVARD AVE. 3100 DARTMOUTH 300 ALAMEDA AVE. 2600 VASSAR AVE. 3200 EASTMAN AVE. 3300 FLOYD AVE. 3400 GIRARD AVE. Alameda Avenue marked the city 3500 HAMPDEN AVE. limit until the town of South 3600 JEFFERSON AVE. Denver was annexed in 3700 KENYON AVE. 1894. Many of the town’s east- 3800 LEHIGH AVE. west avenues were named after 3900 MANSFIELD AVE. American states and 4000 NASSAU AVE. territories, though without any 4100 OXFORD AVE. clear pattern. 4200 PRINCETON AVE. 350 NEVADA PL. 4300 QUINCY AVE. 400 DAKOTA AVE. 4400 RADCLIFF AVE. 450 ALASKA PL. 4500 STANFORD AVE. 500 VIRGINIA AVE. 4600 TUFTS AVE. 600 CENTER AVE. 4700 UNION AVE. 700 EXPOSITION AVE. 800 OHIO AVE. 900 KENTUCKY AVE As the city expanded southward some 1000 TENNESSEE AVE. of the alphabetical system 1100 AVE. disappeared in favor 1200 ARIZONA AVE. of names of streets from the west. 1300 LOUISIANA AVE. 1400 ARKANSAS AVE. 4800 LAYTON AVE. 1500 FLORIDA AVE 4900 CHENANGO AVE. 1600 IOWA AVE 5000 GRAND AVE. 1700 MEXICO AVE. 5100 BELLEVIEW AVE. 1800 AVE. 1900 JEWELL AVE. Downtown Northwest from Broadway & Colfax

“Diagonal Streets” Laid out parallel to the Platte River.

1 PL. 2 CLEVELAND PL. 3 COURT PL. 4 TREMONT PL. 5 GLENARM PL. 6 WELTON 7 CALIFORNIA 8 STOUT 9 CHAMPA 10 CURTIS 11 ARAPAHOE 12 LAWRENCE 13 LARIMER 14 MARKET & WALNUT 15 BLAKE 16 WAZEE 17 WYNKOOP 18 WEWATTA 19 DELGANY 20 CHESTNUT PL. 21 BASSETT 23 WATER 24 PLATTE 25 CENTRAL 26 BOULDER 27 ERIE Running North & South from Broadway East

“The Streets of Aurora” The Double Alphabet East of New double alphabet begins east of Yosemite Colorado Boulevard: “Places, Street in Aurora. People, and Plants” That town had originally named many of its Name of the first street in the roads after cities. series was a personal name or a It is regularly interrupted by arterials which geographic location. do not follow the logic of the system. The next street was a plant/tree. This continued three miles east to 90 AKRON 122 QUARI Yosemite, the city line at the 91 ALTON 123 QUENTIN time. 92 BEELER 124 RACINE 93 125 REVERE 41 ALBION 66 MAGNOLIA 94 CHESTER 126 SALEM 42 ASH 67 NIAGARA 95 CLINTON 127 SCRANTON 21 VINE 43 BELLAIRE 1 LINCOLN 68 NEWPORT 96 DALLAS 128 TROY 22 GAYLORD 44 BIRCH 2 SHERMAN 69 ONEIDA 97 DAYTON 129 TUCSON / TOLEDO 23 YORK 45 CLERMONT 3 GRANT 70 OLIVE 98 EMPORIA 130 URSULA 24 UNIVERSITY 46 CHERRY 4 LOGAN 71 PONTIAC 99 ELMIRA 131 UVALDA 24 JOSEPHINE 47 DEXTER 5 72 POPLAR 100 FLORENCE 132 VAUGHN 25 COLUMBINE 48 DAHLIA 6 PEARL 73 QUEBEC 101 FULTON 133 VICTOR 26 ELIZABETH 49 EUDORA 7 74 QUINCE 102 GALENA 134 WHEELING 27 CLAYTON 50 ELM 8 CLARKSON 75 ROSLYN 103 GENEVA 135 WORCHESTER 28 DETROIT 51 FAIRFAX 9 EMERSON 76 ROSEMARY 104 HANOVER 136 XANADU 29 FILLMORE 52 FOREST 10 OGDEN 77 SYRACUSE 105 HAVANA 137 XAPARY / POTOMAC 30 MILWAUKEE 53 GLENCOE 11 CORONA 78 SPRUCE 106 IOLA 138 YOST/ABILENE 31 ST PAUL 54 GRAPE 12 DOWNING 79 TRENTON 107 IRONTON 139 YUBA / ATCHISON 32 STEELE 55 HUDSON 13 MARION 80 TAMARAC 108 JAMAICA 140 ZION / BILLINGS 33 ADAMS 56 HOLLY 14 LAFAYETTE 81 ULSTER 109 JOLIET 141 BLACKHAWK 34 COOK 57 IVANHOE 15 HUMBOLDT 82 UINTA 110 KENTON 142 CARSON 35 MADISON 58 IVY 16 FRANKLIN 83 VALENTIA 111 KINGSTON / KRAMER 143 CRYSTAL 36 MONROE 59 JERSEY 17 GILPIN 84 VERBENA 112 LANSING 144 DILLON 37 GARFIELD 60 JASMINE 18 WILLIAMS 85 WABASH 113 LIMA 145 SABLE 38 JACKSON 61 KEARNEY 19 HIGH 86 WILLOW 114 MACON 146 DEARBORN 39 HARRISON 62 KRAMERIA 20 RACE 87 XANTHIA 115 MOLINE 147 EAGLE 40 COLO. BLVD 63 LEYDEN 88 XENIA 116 NEWARK 148 ELKHART 64 LOCUST 89 YOSEMITE 117 NOME 149 ALTURA 65 MONACO 118 OAKLAND 150 FAIRPLAY 119 OSWEGO 151 FRASER 120 PARIS 152 GRANBY 121 PEORIA 153 CHAMBERS Running North & South from Broadway West

“Alphabet West of “Great American Alphabet” Sheridan” This set of streets Generally honors great “Native American Alphabet” The street nomenclature denotes governors of Americans, especially authors, Tribes, connections and a was to honor United Colorado, pioneers of military figures, scientists, few changes. States senators, Supreme Jefferson , and politicians, and explorers. Court justices, and flora. other politicians.

25 ALLCOTT 53 AMES 26 BRYANT 1 ACOMA 54 BENTON 27 CLAY 2 BANNOCK 55 CHASE 28 DECATUR 3 CHEROKEE 56 DEPEW 80 ALLISON 29 ELIOT 4 DELAWARE 57 EATON 81 AMMONS 30 FEDERAL 5 ELATI 58 FENTON 82 BALSAM 31 GROVE 6 FOX 59 GRAY 83 BRENTWOOD 32 HOOKER 7 GALAPAGO 60 HARLAN 84 CARR 33 IRVING 8 HURON 61 INGALLS 85 CODY 34 JULIAN 9 INCA 62 JAY 86 DOVER 35 KING 10 SANTA FE DR. (JASON) 63 KENDALL 87 DUDLEY 36 LOWELL 11 KALAMATH 64 LAMAR 88 ESTES 37 MEADE 12 LIPAN 65 MARSHALL 89 EVERETT 38 NEWTON 13 MARIPOSA 66 NEWLAND 90 FIELD 39 OSCEOLA 14 NAVAJO 67 OTIS 91 FLOWER 40 PERRY 15 OSAGE 68 PIERCE 92 GARRISON 41 QUITMAN 16 PECOS 69 QUAY 93 GARLAND 42 RALEIGH 17 QUIVAS 70 REED 94 HOLLAND 43 STUART 18 RARITAN 71 SAULSBERRY 95 HOYT 44 TENNYSON 19 SHOSHONE 72 TELLER 96 INDEPENDENCE 45 UTICA 20 TEJON 73 UPHAM 97 IRIS 46 VRAIN 21 UMATILLA 74 VANCE 98 JELLISON 47 WINONA 22 VALLEJO 75 WEBSTER 99 JOHNSON 48 WOLFF 23 WYANDOT 76 WADSWORTH 100 KIPLING 49 XAVIER 24 ZUNI 77 YUKON 50 YATES 78 YARROW 51 ZENOBIA 79 ZEPHYR 52 SHERIDAN Running East & West from Ellsworth North

50 IRVINGTON PL. 1500 COLFAX 2000 MONTVIEW 3200 MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD. Downtown Northwest from Broadway and Colfax

(Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

Block Name Meaning “Diagonal Streets” Laid out parallel to the Platte River. The Cheyenne Indians lived in eastern Colorado at the time of the Pikes Peak gold rush. Translated from the Dakota means 100 Cheyenne Place “those who speak a strange language”, “red talkers’, or “those who paint themselves red”. 200 Cleveland Place (President) The Arapahoe County Courthouse was located on this road 300 Court Place between 15th and 16th streets (Erected 1883/demolished 1933). Denver was the county seat until 1902. 400 Tremont Place The Tremont House was an early Auraria hotel. Glen Arm, Scotland (Named by William McGaa for what he claimed 500 Glenarm Place was his ancestral family home. 600 Welton N. W. Welton (A founder of Denver City) Named to denote that Denver was to be the new California as 700 California the center of a rich gold rush. Elisha P. Stout (A founder of Denver City and the first 800 Stout president of the Denver Town Company) Sioux for “beaver” or Ute word for “bear” Chama Indians of New Mexico 900 Champa Tewa for “here they have wrestled” or “red” Spanish for “lass or “little girl” 1000 Curtis Samuel S. Curtis (One of the founders of Denver City) 1100 Arapahoe Arapahoe County, Arapahoe Indians Charles A. Lawrence (Partner of William Larimer in 1200 Lawrence establishing Denver) William Larimer (Leader of the group that originally jumped 1300 Larimer Street the claim of the town St. Charles, Territory, and which founded Denver City) Market; Renamed in 1887 to reflect that it was home to a certain kind of market. 1400 Market & Walnut Walnut; Those who did not live on the prostitution stretch of Market Street wanted a different name. 1500 Blake Charles H. Blake (Pioneer Denver Merchant) Wazee is an Indian word of unknown meaning. 1600 Wazee Supposedly named for William McGaa’s mistress. Edward W. “Ned” Wynkoop (First sheriff of Arapahoe County and 1700 Wynkoop an organizer of the Denver Town Company) 1800 Wewatta William Mcgaa named the road for his Oglala Sioux wife. 1900 Delgany Named for a pioneer about whom virtually nothing is known. Originally named Williams street after Denver pioneer Andrew J. Williams, its moniker was changed to Chestnut place in 1888 2000 Chestnut Place to distinguish the road from Williams Street on Capital Hill where Williams lived. 2100 Bassett P.T. Bassett (Recorder of the Denver Town Company) Named for the presence of water (runs parallel to the Platte 2300 Water River). Named for the Platte River that it runs parallel to (Platte derives from the French word for flat, which is a translation 2400 Platte of an Indian name of the river, the ni bthaska, the flat river. Designated the central street of the Central Subdivision in 2500 Central 1881. Named for Central City. 2600 Boulder Boulder, CO 2700 Erie Erie, Colorado

Downtown 1! Running East and West from Ellsworth North

(Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

Block Name Meaning Lewis Ellsworth (Operated the city’s first horsecar 0 Ellsworth line) Changed to Irving Place in 1865 for the Irving 50 Irvington Place Investment Company. Soon thereafter it became Irvington Place. (Speaker of the House of 1500 Colfax Representatives 1863-1869 and Vice President 1869-1873) The name emphasizes the view of the mountains from 2000 Montview Blvd. Park Hill. 3200 Martin Luther King Blvd. Named for Martin Luther King in 1980.

Ellsworth North 1! Running East and West from Ellsworth South

(Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

Block Name Meaning Early businessman who homesteaded West of Broadway and South of First Avenue. 0 Ellsworth Lewis Ellsworth (Operated the city’s first horsecar line) James Archer (Founder of the first Denver gasworks and water 50 Archer Place company. Had a real estate subdivision along this road) 100 Bayaud The estate of Thomas Bayaud , an early Denver contractor. 150 Maple Named by William Newton Byers for a favorite tree. 200 Cedar Named by William Newton Byers for a favorite tree. Original farm home of pioneer Rocky Mountain News owner William 250 Byers Place Newton Byers. Spanish term for “Avenue lined by trees” (named by William Newton 300 Alameda Byers) Alameda Avenue marked the city limit until the town of South Denver was annexed in 1894. Many of the town’s east-west avenues were named after American states and territories, though without any clear pattern. 350 Nevada Place State 400 Dakota North/ 450 Alaska Place State 500 Virginia State This road was at the center of the National Mining and Industrial 600 Center Exposition of 1882. This road was the southern border of the grounds of the National 700 Exposition Mining and Industrial Exposition of 1882. 800 Ohio State 900 Kentucky State 1000 Tennessee State 1100 Mississippi State 1200 Arizona State 1300 Louisiana State 1400 Arkansas State 1500 Florida State 1600 Iowa State 1700 Mexico New Mexico and the Republic of Mexico 1800 Colorado State Charles Jewell (Investor in early South Denver and Denver Circle 1900 Jewell Railroad) University of Denver 2000 Asbury Francis Asbury (First Methodist Bishop in North America) John Evans (Central figure in the establishment of the school and 2100 Evans the second territorial of Colorado) 2200 Warren Henry White Warren (First Methodist Bishop of Colorado) John Wesley Iliff (Colorado Cattle King, his widow helped 2300 Iliff establish the Iliff School of Theology at DU near this road) 2400 Wesley John Wesley (Founder of Methodism) Named for Harvard University, denoting DU as the Harvard of the 2500 Harvard West. 2600 Vassar Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, Institutes of Higher Learning 2700 Yale Yale University in New Haven, 2800 Amherst Amherst College 2900 Bates Bates College in Lewiston, . 3000 Cornell Cornell University 3100 Dartmouth Dartmouth University 3200 Eastman Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York Edward Floyd (Friend of Maloney’s, Floyd was wieghmaster of the 3300 Floyd Argo Smelter) 3400 Girard Girard College in , Pennsylvania. John Hampden (Major figure in 17th-century England) 3500 Hampden Hampden Institute in Virginia 3600 Jefferson (Founder of the ) 3700 Kenyon Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio 3800 Lehigh Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Ellsworth South 1! Running East and West from Ellsworth South

(Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

3900 Mansfield Mansfield University in Mansfield, Pennsylvania 4000 Nassau Capital of the Bahama Islands 4100 Oxford Oxford University 4200 Princeton Princeton University 4300 Quincy Quincy College in Quincy, Illinois 4400 Radcliff Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts 4500 Stanford Stanford University 4600 Tufts Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts 4700 Union Union College in Schenectady, New York As the city expanded southward some of the alphabetical system disappeared in favor of names of streets from the west. 4800 Layton No meaning listed. Onondagan Indian term for large bull thistles, and is the moniker of a region in upstate New York. The road was named as part of 4900 Chenango the Harlem Addition which was to bring the best of New York to Denver. 5000 Grand Nothing Listed 5100 Belleview Northern Border of Littleton, CO.

Ellsworth South 2! Running North and South from Broadway West (Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

Block Name Meaning 0 Broadway Broadway in New York. “Native American Alphabet” Tribes, connections and a few changes. 100 Acoma Aroma Indians are a New Mexican tribe. Bannock Indians are a branch of the Shoshine in and 200 Bannock western Wyoming. Cherokee Indians were members of the Russell party which 300 Cherokee established Auraria. A confederation of Algonquian Indians lived along the middle Atlantic coast at the time of the English settlement. The 400 Delaware British named them the Delaware after Lord De La Warr, an early . Named for the Elati Tsalagi, the Lower Cherokee or cave 500 Elati dwellers. The Fox Indians called themselves the Mesquakie, the Red Earth People. The French confused the name of the clan the Red Fox 600 Fox with the name of the tribe as a whole, calling these Indians “the Fox”. Maloney could not find an Indian tribe whose name began with a 700 Galapago “G” that he thought was easily pronounceable, so he substituted a street named for the Galapagos Islands. Named by the French “the people with bristly hair (Hure)” or 800 Huron “people with the head of a wild boar” (Huron = “Boor”) Huron Indians called themselves the Wyandot. The Inca were an Indian empire in Peru destroyed by the Spanish 900 Inca conquistadors. Santa Fe Drive is the original road that headed south from Santa Fe Drive Denver, eventually leading to the Old Santa Fe Trail and Santa 1000 (Jason Street) Fe, New Mexico (Named for Jason of classical antiquity) Honors the Klamath Indians, of North-Central California and 1100 Kalamath South Central Oregon. Those making the street signs misspelled the name. 1200 Lipan The Lipan are a branch of the Apache Indians. Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly, a term Spanish Explorers applied to a river in the San Joaquin capital valley of 1300 Mariposa California where numerous butterflies were present. Spaniards, labeled the Indians of the same name. They called themselves the Yokuts. 1400 Navajo Named after the Navajo Indian tribe. 1500 Osage Named for the western branch of the Sioux. Named for the Pueblo Indians who lived along the Pecos River in 1600 Pecos New Mexico. 1700 Quivas Maloney stated that the Quivas Indians were a Venezuelan tribe. Named for a branch of the Delaware Indians who lived in New 1800 Raritan Jersey near the Raritan River. Shoshone Indians are a Great Basin tribe. They called 1900 Shoshone themselves Nomo, people. Named for Indians living in Mexico in the mid-18th century, 2000 Tejon whom Spaniards called the Tejones The Umatilla are a branch of the Shahaptian Indians living on 2100 Umatilla the the Umatilla River and near the Columbia River in Oregan. No major North American tribe has a name beginning with a “V”. 2200 Vallejo Names for Vallejo, California, 2300 Wyandot Wyandot was the name the Huran Indians called themselves. 2400 Zuni Named after the Zuni Pueblo of New Mexico. “Great American Alphabet” Generally honors great Americans, especially authors, military figures, scientists, politicians, and explorers. 2500 Alcott Louisa May Alcott (Children’s Author) James Cullen Bryant (Famous 19th-century poet and newspaper 2600 Bryant editor)

Broadway West 1! Running North and South from Broadway West (Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

Henry Clay (U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Secretary of State, and 2700 Clay a three-time unsuccessful Whig Party candidate for president) 2800 Decatur Stephen Decatur (Naval hero in the war of 1812) 2900 Eliot John Eliot (17th-century missionary to the Indians) Originally called Highland Avenue but referred to as “The 3000 Federal Boulevard” renamed in 1897 “Boulevard F”. Labeled Federal Boulevard in 1912. 3100 Grove William Robert Grove (Famous 19th-century scientist) Joseph Hooker (commander of Union troops in Washington D.C., 3200 Hooker during the Civil War) 3300 Irving Washington Irving (Author) George W. Julian (Key figure in American politics in the 3400 Julian mid-19th century, represented Indiana in congress. 3500 King Rufus King (19th-century politician and diplomat) 3600 Lowell James Russell Lowell (poet) 3700 Meade George Gordon Meade (Union general during the Civil War) 3800 Newton Isaac Newton Osceola (A Seminole Indian leader who lived between 1803 and 3900 Osceola 1838) Oliver Hazard Perry (commanded the U.S. forces at the battle of 4000 Perry lake Erie during the War of 1812) John Anthony Quitman (politician and soldier, was a hero in the 4100 Quitman Mexican-American War) 4200 Raleigh Walter Raleigh (explorer) 4300 Stuart Thomas B. Stuart 19th-Century Denver politician and lawyer. 4400 Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (English poet) 4500 Utica Utica New York 4600 Vrain Ceran St. Vrain (early Colorado trapper and trader) Personal name used by the Sioux, usually given to the first- 4700 Winona born daughter, meaning “little woman”. 4800 Wolff Hiram G. Wolff (owned much of the land north of Sloans Lake) Francis Xavier (16th-century Spaniard, was a Jesuit missionary 4900 Xavier East Indies. Richard Yates (represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 5000 Yates 1865-1871) 5100 Zenobia The famous queen of Palmyra in the third century. It was to be the street to Fort Sheridan. The latter facility 5200 Sheridan was dedicated as Fort Logan in 1888. The boulevard was named for General Phillip Sheridan. “Alphabet West of Sheridan” The street nomenclature was to honor senators, Supreme Court justices, and other politicians. Adelbert Ames (Represented Mississippi in the Senate from 5300 Ames 1870-1874) Thomas Hart Benton (Represented Missouri in the Senate from 5400 Benton 1821-1851. 5500 Chase Salmon P. Chase (Chief Justice from 1864-1873) Chauncey N. Depew (Considered a corrupt politician when he 5600 Depew represented New York from 1899-1911. 5700 Eaton Benjamin Eaton ( from 1881-1883) Reuben Fenton (Represented New York in the Senate from 5800 Fenton 1869-1875) George Gray (Represented Delaware in the Senate from 1885-1899, 5900 Gray served on the Supreme Court from 1881-1902) 6000 Harlan John Harlan (Served on the Supreme Court from 1877-1911) John James Ingalls (Represented Kansas in the Senate from 6100 Ingalls 1873-1891) 6200 Jay John Jay (First Chief Justice of the U.S. from 1789-1795) Amos Kendall (Close friend/advisor of President Andrew Jackson, 6300 Kendall Postmaster General from 1835-1840) 6400 Lamar Lucius Q. C. Lamar(Served on the Supreme Court from 1888-1893) 6500 Marshall John Marshall (Chief Justice from 1801-1835)

Broadway West 2! Running North and South from Broadway West (Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

Francis G. Newlands (Represented Nevada in the Senate from 6600 Newland 1903-1917) Harrison Gray Otis (Represented Massachusetts in the Senate 6700 Otis from 1817-1822) 6800 Pierce Franklin Pierce (President from 1853-1857) Matthew Quay ( in Pennsylvania, served in the 6900 Quay Senate from 1887-1904) Thomas B. Reed (autocratic speaker of the House of 7000 Reed Representatives in the late 19th century) Williams Saulsbury (represented Delaware in the Senate between 7100 Saulsbury 1859-1871) Henry M. Teller (represented Colorado in the Senate between 7200 Teller 1876-1882 and 1885-1909) William Upham (represented in the Senate between 7300 Upham 1843-1853) Zebulon Baird Vance (Governor of North Carolina during the 7400 Vance Civil War and repressed the state in the Senate from 1897-1894) Daniel Webster (served in the Senate from 1827-1841 and 7500 Webster 1845-1850) 7600 Wadsworth Benjamin Franklin Wadsworth (founder of Arvada, Colorado) Designated Xerxes Street upon the reorganization of Jefferson 7700 Yukon County streets, the name was changed in 1944. 7800 Yarrow Named for the Herb. 7900 Zephyr The God of the west wind in ancient Greek methodology. This set of streets denotes governors of Colorado, pioneers of Jefferson County, and flora. William Boyd Allison (represented Iowa in the U.S. Senate from 1873-1908) 8000 Allison Allison Family (early settlers who's ranch was south of Standley Lake) Elias Ammons and his son, (both served as 8100 Ammons Governor) 8200 Balsam flora Possibly named in emulation of the exclusive section of Los 8300 Brentwood Angeles. 8400 Carr Ralph Carr (Colorado Governor) 8500 Cody William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody 8600 Dover Jefferson County Pioneer Charles E. Dudley (represented New York in the U.S. Senate from 8700 Dudley 1829-1833) Judson H. Dudley (pioneer of 1858) 8800 Estes Jefferson County Pioneer Edward Everett (orator) Martin N. Everett member of the Colorado constitutional 8900 Everett convention and was a founder of the Ceres Grange #1 in the Wheat Ridge area. Francis E. Everett mayor of Golden in the 1870’s and 1880’s. S.C. Field (one of the inaugural county commissioners) 9000 Field Ralph Field (had a home and training school for young boys, Brightside, ten miles northwest of Denver. Most likely named for the plant, it might remember real estate 9100 Flower developer John S. Flower. The Garrisons were an early Golden family who published Golden 9200 Garrison Globe. 9300 Garland Named for the wreath. Members of the Holland family were early settlers in the Wheat 9400 Holland Ridge area. James M. Holland owned land in the Mountair section of Lakewood. 9500 Hoyt C.P. Hoyt (Mayor of Golden in the early 20th Century. 9600 Independence A patriotic themed road. 9700 Iris Flora 9800 Jellison James S. Jellison (Jefferson County justice of the peace)

Broadway West 3! Running North and South from Broadway West (Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

9900 Johnson Samuel W. Johnson (district attorney and district judge) 10000 Kipling Rudyard Kipling (author)

Broadway West 4! Running North and South from Broadway East

(Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

Block Name Meaning 0 Broadway Broadway in New York. 100 Lincoln (President) 200 Sherman William T. Sherman (General) 300 Grant Ulysses Grant (President) John A. Logan (Illinois Senator who helped establish Fort 400 Logan Logan) 500 Pennsylvania Home State of Developer John W. Smith. 600 Pearl Pearl Smith (Granddaughter of Developer John W. Smith) 700 Washington George Washington (President) 800 Clarkson Bauger and Matthew Clarkson (Developers) 900 Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (essayist/lecturer/poet) 1000 Ogden Billy Ogden (Conductor on 1st train into Denver in June 1870) Spanish for crown, noting it was high, crowning part of 1100 Corona Denver. Ogden used to be Alta, Spanish for high. 1200 Downing Jacob Downing (Developer) 1300 Marion Josie Marion(belle of early Denver) 1400 Lafayette Marquis de Lafayette (French aristocrat and Military officer) 1500 Humboldt Alexander von Humboldt (German Scientist) 1600 Franklin Benjamin Franklin (Founding Fathers, Inventor…) 1700 Gilpin William Gilpin (1st Territorial Governor of CO) Andrew J. Williams (Early Denver settler, one of the first 1800 Williams merchants) After High Street in Philadelphia which also ran parallel to 1900 High that city’s Race Street. 2000 Race Originally connected the racetracks. After in Philadelphia which also ran parallel to 2100 Vine that city’s Race Street. 2200 Gaylord Ed Gaylord (Major 19th-century gambler who lived on this road) 2300 York After York street in Philadelphia. 2400 University Leads to DU (2350) Josephine Elbert Evans (Daughter of Territorial Governor John 2400 Josephine Evans) 2500 Columbine State Flower Elizabeth Byers (Wife of Rocky Mountain News founder William 2600 Elizabeth Newton Byers) George Clayton (Businessman/Landowner) & William Clayton 2700 Clayton (Denver Mayor, 1868-69) 2800 Detroit Detroit, Michigan 2900 Fillmore Millard Fillmore (President) 3000 Milwaukee City in 3100 St. Paul City in Minnesota Robert W. Steele ( Governor) 3200 Steele Dr. Henry K. Steele (Pioneer Physician) Robert W. Steele (Platted some of the nearby land) 3300 Adams (President) 3400 Cook J. Cook Jr. (Developer) 3500 Madison (President) 3600 Monroe James Monroe (President) 3700 Garfield James Garfield (President) 3800 Jackson Andrew Jackson (President) 3900 Harrison William Henry and (Presidents) 4000 Colorado Blvd. Name of the State, which is named after the Colorado River. The Double Alphabet East of Colorado Boulevard: “Places, People, and Plants” Name of the first street in the series was a personal name or a geographic location. The next street was a plant/tree. This continued three miles east to Yosemite, the city line at the time. Albion K. Vickery (Denver clerk/recorder, city engineer) 4100 Albion Albion is the ancient title for England 4200 Ash Plant/Tree

Broadway East 1! Running North and South from Broadway East

(Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

Several American communities with this name meaning “good 4300 Bellaire air”. 4400 Birch Plant/Tree Clermont “Clear Mountain” is a town near a mountain valley of 4500 Clermont France. 4600 Cherry Plant/Tree 4700 Dexter Numerous towns named Dexter in the U.S. 4800 Dahlia Plant/Tree Caroline Eudora Downing (Land Owner in Park Hill 4900 Eudora neighborhood.) 5000 Elm Plant/Tree Named for an English location which is also a moniker of 5100 Fairfax numerous towns in the U.S. 5200 Forest Plant/Tree 5300 Glencoe Valley in Scotland. 5400 Grape Plant/Tree 5500 Hudson Hudson River and Hudson Bay. 5600 Holly Plant/Tree 5700 Ivanhoe A hero of a Walter Scott novel. 5800 Ivy Plant/Tree 5900 Jersey Named for the Isle of Jersey. 6000 Jasmine Plant/Tree 6100 Kearney Fort Kearney and Kearney, NE A krameria is a shrub whose roots are used for medicinal 6200 Krameria purposes. 6300 Leyden Named for the city in the Netherlands. 6400 Locust Plant/Tree 6500 Monaco Named for the principality in Europe. 6600 Magnolia Plant/Tree 6700 Niagara Named for Niagara Falls Originally named for Newport, Rhode Island. It was designated Nepita for the Nepita plant during the 1904 renaming. 6800 Newport Residents insisted that the road retain its old moniker. Renamed back in 1906. 6900 Oneida Oneida, New York 7000 Olive Plant/Tree 7100 Pontiac Pontiac, Michigan 7200 Poplar Plant/Tree 7300 Quebec Named for the area in Canada. 7400 Quince Plant/Tree There are towns of Roslyn in Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and 7500 Roslyn Washington. 7600 Rosemary Plant/Tree 7700 Syracuse Named for the city in Sicily and New York. 7800 Spruce Plant/Tree 7900 Trenton Trenton, New Jersey 8000 Tamarac A type of pine tree. 8100 Ulster Named for the section of Ireland. The Uinta are a branch of of the Ute Indians. 8200 Uinta There is a Uinta mountain range in Utah. Uinta possibly means “pine land”. 8300 Valentia Valentia, Spain 8400 Verbena Plant/Tree 8500 Wabash The Wabash river is a tributary of the Ohio River. 8600 Willow Plant/Tree Originally designated Xanthi, named for a town in Greece. It 8700 Xanthia later became known as Xanthia. Named for the city in Ohio, from the greek word for 8800 Xenia hospitality. Named for the region in California which derives from an 8900 Yosemite Indian term for grizzly bear.

Broadway East 2! Running North and South from Broadway East

(Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

“The Streets of Aurora” New double alphabet begins east of Yosemite Street in Aurora. That town had originally named many of its roads after cities. It is regularly interrupted by arterials which do not follow the logic of the system. 9000 Akron Akron, Ohio 9100 Alton Alton, Illinois Beeler, Kansas 9200 Beeler E.M. Beeler (Denver map maker in the early 20th century) 9300 Boston Boston, Massachusetts 9400 Chester Chester, Pennsylvania 9500 Clinton Clinton, Iowa 9600 Dallas Dallas, Texas 9700 Dayton Dayton, Ohio 9800 Emporia Emporia, Kansas 9900 Elmira Elmira, New York 10000 Florence Florence, Italy 10100 Fulton Numerous towns with this name in the U.S. 10200 Galena Galena, Illinois 10300 Geneva Geneva, Switzerland 10400 Hanover Hanover, Germany 10500 Havana Havana, Cuba 10600 Iola Iola, Colorado 10700 Ironton Ironton, Ohio 10800 Jamaica Named for the West Indies Island 10900 Joliet Joliet, Illinois 11000 Kenton Kenton, Ohio 11100 Kingston/Kramer Kingston is the capital of Jamaica 11200 Lansing Lansing, Michigan 11300 Lima Named for city in Ohio and Peru 11400 Macon Macon, Georgia 11500 Moline Moline, Illinois 11600 Newark Newark, New Jersey 11700 Nome Nome, Alaska 11800 Oakland Oakland, California 11900 Oswego Oswego, New York 12000 Paris Paris, France 12100 Peoria Peoria, Illinois Named for the site of the 17th-century Spanish mission, 12200 Quari Quarai, New Mexico. Quentin, Pennsylvania 12300 Quentin San Quentin, CA 12400 Racine Racine, Wisconsin 12500 Revere Revere, Massachusetts 12600 Salem Salem, Massachusetts 12700 Scranton Scranton, Pennsylvania 12800 Troy Named for the city in New York and in classical antiquity. 12900 Tucson/Toledo Tucson, Arizona / Toledo, Ohio 13000 Ursala Named for a locale in Kansas. 13100 Uvalda Uvalda, Georgia 13200 Vaughn Nine town with this name in the U.S. 13300 Victor Victor, Colorado 13400 Wheeling Wheeling, West Virginia 13500 Worchester Worcester, Massachusetts Mythical city mentioned in Samuel Coleridge’s poem Kubla 13600 Xanadu Khan. 13700 Xapary/Potomac Possibly named for Xapuri, Brazil / Unknown Towns of Yost in Illinois, Oklahoma, and Utah. / Abiline, 13800 Yost/Abiline Kansas 13900 Yuba/Atchison Yuba, Wisconsin / Atchison, Kansas 14000 Zion/Billings Unknown / Billings, 14100 Blackhawk Black Hawk, Colorado 14200 Carson Carson is in Hinsdale County

Broadway East 3! Running North and South from Broadway East

(Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein)

14300 Crystal Crystal is in Gunnison County 14400 Dillon Dillon, CO An old country road which was the main street of the small 14500 Sable community of Sable. There are towns of Dearborn in Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, 14600 Dearborn Missouri, and Montana. 14700 Eagle Eagle is in Eagle County 14800 Elkhart Towns of Elkhart in Indiana, Kansas, and Texas An old quarter section line, near where the Altura family had 14900 Altura its farm. 15000 Fairplay Fairplay is in Park County 15100 Fraser Fraser is in Grand County 15200 Granby Granby is in Grand County 15300 Chambers Roy Chambers (Business owner at Colfax and this street)

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