![]() ![]() ![]() The placer, Arapahoe Bar, had been discovered by the Estes Party as far back as 1834 and mined in earnest since 1858. Arapahoe City was a base camp town laid out on a grid to serve miners washing placer gold from nearby Clear Creek. Golden in a letter to the Missouri Republican it was named after the Arapaho tribe after chiefs warned residents to "quit their country". Allen, and according to founding treasurer Thomas L. Gold prospectors founded Arapahoe City on Novemduring the advent of the Pikes Peak gold rush. Nothing remains of the now deserted ghost town in Jefferson County, except a historical marker on the south side of 44th Avenue, between the towns of Golden and Wheat Ridge. Arapahoe (also spelled Arrapahoe) was one of the first settlements in what is now the U.S.
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