A Brief History of Englewood
Englewood’s recorded settlement history reaches back to the 1858 gold discovery on Little Dry Creek. Thomas and Mary Skerritt homesteaded in the area in 1860, and Thomas opened a road south from Denver in 1864 that became Broadway. Orchard Place and Cherrelyn developed along this corridor, with the Cherrelyn horsecar becoming a distinctive local form of transportation. In 1903, residents voted to combine the settlements and adjoining territory into Englewood. Jacob Jones defeated Skerritt by five votes in the first mayoral election. The new government appointed a marshal and organized water, irrigation and other civic services.