![]() This was where Wadsworth encouraged merchants to set up small shops like drug stores, dressmakers, meat and shoe markets. The main street, present day Wadsworth Boulevard, was Centre Street. Wadsworth continued to be one of the town’s most active citizens and filed the first official town plat in 1870, which included eight mapped roads. The two friends decided it would be good idea to file for township and Wadsworth’s wife chose the town name from her brother-in-law’s middle name, Arvada. Although not many gold miners got rich, many continued to live in the area as farmers, Morely wrote. Wadsworth and his friend, Louis Reno, observed more and more settlers coming to Arvada intending to strike gold, according to Judy Morely’s Centennial Arvada 1904-2004. Bromwell/Western History & Genealogy Dept./Denver Public Library/X-6743) The remains of Benjamin Wadsworth's 1859 log cabin, as seen sometime between 19.
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