By Rebecca A. Hunt Denver’s Italian community centered on the area between 32nd and 38th avenues along Navajo Street. In the 1930s, many people still spoke Italian and some older women still wore their traditional […]
By Rebecca A. Hunt From its beginnings, the Northside has been a center of ethnic diversity. Last month I told you the story of the Irish. Now, I will spend some time on the Italians, […]
By Rebecca A. Hunt Last month, I shared the history of the middle- and upper-class sections of the near Northside. This month I am taking us down the hill to the area between Zuni Street […]
By Rebecca A. Hunt What became the town of Highlands grew out of two earlier neighborhood developments, Potter Highlands and Highland Park. This month I will give you the history of Highland Park and the […]
By Rebecca A. Hunt What is in a name? The lower section of Northwest Denver has had many names and identities since the 1850s. In the winter of 1858, when William Larimer and others laid […]
By Rebecca Hunt By the early 1800s, Euro-American trappers and traders came to Colorado from the north and east. They were trapping beavers to feed a fashion for fancy beaver felt hats. By the late […]
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