Englewood's recorded history began in 1858, when the Georgia prospector William Green Russell found gold near the mouth of what was later named Little Dry Creek. Two years later Thomas Skerritt, considered the city's founder, made his home in the area, then called Orchard Place, and four years after that he built the first road between it and Denver. The first telephone arrived in 1879. In 1883 the Cherrelyn horsecar line was laid, and its trolley became a city icon, pulled up Broadway by a horse and coasting back down by gravity.
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The Town of Englewood was incorporated on May 9, 1903, and J.C. Jones, who had owned almost all of what is now north Englewood, narrowly beat Skerritt to become the first mayor. The post office opened on October 24, 1903, and a newspaper soon to be named the Herald followed. The Swedish National Sanitorium, founded in 1905, grew into today's Swedish Medical Center. The first paved streets and streetlights came in 1906, police and fire departments in 1907, and the Cherrelyn horse trolley stopped running in 1908.
In 1948 the city bought 2,500 acres in Platte Canyon and soon built McLellan Reservoir, freeing it from dependence on Denver Water. Thanks to its early water rights, Englewood now supplies water to much of the south metro area.
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Wikipedia: Englewood, Colorado