Library Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2014.45.1.10 |
Accession number |
2014.45 |
Object Name |
Calendar |
Author |
Elaine Egan |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Number of images |
1 |
People |
Wadsworth, Benjamin Franklin Reno, Lewis Haskins, Hiram |
Published Date |
2014 |
Search Terms |
Standley Lake Church's Stage Stop Wick Silo Mandalay School |
Subjects |
Standley Lake Wick Silo Farmer Church's Stage Stop Mandalay School |
Summary |
October "2014" contians several historical locations along Wadsworth Boulevard. Standley Lake Wick Silo Church Stage Stop Mandalay School (1925) In the late 1860's Benjamin Franklin Wadsworth settled on farmland at Ralston's Point. With fellow farmer Louis Reno, he decided to build a town where their two properties met. That property line ran right down the middle of the town. Originally called Centre Street, today it is known as Olde Wadsworth. Wadsworth and Reno's town needed a name in order to earn its own Post Office. Wadworth's wife's sister had married a man hamed Hiram Haskins. Hiram's middle name, and the name they gave the new town, came from an island off the coast of Syria meaning "Fruitiful and growing" - Arvada |
Title |
October "2014" Wadsworth Boulevard |