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- Englewood’s beginnings are traced to gold. In the mid-1800s, prospectors on their way to California stopped in Colorado to pan its streams. One of these prospectors was a man from Georgia named William Green Russell.
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The discovery of gold brought settlers to the area. In 1864 an Irish immigrant named Thomas Skerritt laid claim to a 640 acre homestead that encompassed most of present-day Englewood. Thomas Skerritt is now referred to as the “Father of Englewood.” Other homesteaders followed in Skerritt’s footsteps and settled in the area.
The earliest settlers to Englewood were German and Irish workers. They worked initially on truck farms, the railroads, and later at the Union Stock Yard. By 1865 Junction Grove was annexed to the Town of Lake and then Chicago in 1889.
Mar 17, 2003 · When the settlers came, the oaks Avere wantonly cut down and the maples and elms which today shade the streets and avenues of Engiewood have been planted in recent years to take the place of those which were originally placed by the hand of nature.
European settlement and diseases devastated indigenous populations and led to a scramble for lands on a continental scale that resulted in a checkerboard of Euro-American societies from the Hudson Bay in northern Canada to Tierra del Fuego, an island group off the southern tip of South America.
How did they differ in the institutions they created to maintain their settlements? What factors led to the survival or abandonment of a settlement? What relationships evolved among European settlers, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans?
Most of the settlers came from Protestant backgrounds in England and Western Europe, with a small proportion of Catholics, chiefly in Maryland, and a few Jews in port cities. The English and the Germans brought along multiple Protestant denominations.
History. 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 by William Green Russell, an early settler of the High Plains.
