Editing Englewood, Colorado (section)

==History==
[[File:Landscape map of Englewood, Logandale and surroundings. - DPLA - 0a870fc34d32a149e746550cd2e61f35.jpg|left|thumb|Landscape map of Englewood, Logandale and surroundings.]]
The recorded history of Englewood began in 1858, when gold was discovered on what came to be called [[Little Dry Creek (Arapahoe County, Colorado)|Little Dry Creek]] by [[William Greeneberry Russell|William Green Russell]], an early settler of the High Plains. Two years later, Thomas Skerritt, considered to be the founder of the city, established a home in the area, which was called Orchard Place.<ref name=EngHistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.englewood.co.us/Index.aspx?page=314 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925175513/http://www.ci.englewood.co.us/Index.aspx?page=314 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 25, 2006 |title=Chronology of Englewood's History |year=2005 |access-date=June 16, 2009 }}</ref> Four years later, the first road connecting Denver and Orchard Place was created by Skerritt himself, using his own plough. In 1879, the first telephone arrived in the area.

In 1883, the Cherrelyn horsecar path was laid. The Cherrelyn trolley was and is an important city icon, being carried up Broadway by horse and down by gravity. The city was incorporated in 1903, but Skerritt was edged out by J.C. Jones as the first city mayor. Jones was a prominent landowner, having originally owned almost all of what is now north Englewood. The next two years brought the establishment of the first newspaper in the city, soon to be named the ''Herald''. In 1905, Swedish National Sanitorium was founded, soon to become the massive present-day Swedish Medical Center. The first pavement and street lights were installed in 1906, and a year later, the police and fire departments were established. In 1908, the Cherrelyn horse trolley stopped running.[[Image:PiratesCove.jpg|thumb|left|Pirates Cove]]

A great period of change for the city occurred in 1948; {{convert|2500|acre|ha}} on the Platte Canyon were purchased, and soon McLellan Reservoir was created. This ensured water independence from the powerful Denver Water, and in fact, Englewood provides water to most of the south metro area now due to its vast, early established water rights. Soon after, the city embarked on a huge building boom; most of the city was in fact built up by 1960.
[[Image:EnglewoodCivicCenterFront.jpg|thumb|left|Englewood City Hall]]

In 1965, City Park was sold to make way for [[Cinderella City]], the largest mall west of the [[Mississippi River]] and one of the largest in the world when it opened in 1968. The developer provided the funds to create a vast city park network to replace the single City Park on which the mall was built. About 30 years later, the city demolished the defunct mall to make way for a new, [[transit-oriented development]] that would also contain a new Civic Center, library, and the relocated city hall. The RTD completed its southwest light-rail corridor in 2000, and established passenger rail transit in Englewood.

In 2004, Englewood opened the Pirates Cove water park as part of a multimillion-dollar improvement package for the city parks system. In addition to Pirates Cove, many improvements were made to the South Platte River trail system and the Englewood Recreation Center, originally constructed in 1975.

Englewood is a full-service city with its own, independent park, library, and public works systems. It also provides snowplow service to neighboring municipalities.