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Virginia Village is a neighborhood in Southeastern Denver, Colorado. The neighborhood bounds the intersection of Interstate 25 and Colorado Blvd, one of Denver's busiest thoroughfares. The neighborhood consists of a mixture of apartment buildings and town homes, single-family houses, strip-malls, and mid and high-rise apartments and office buildings. It is served by the Colorado Station on the RTD light rail. == History == Within five years after the founding of Denver, the area that was to become Virginia Village was already being settled. In 1864, Levi Booth purchased the stage stop that is now Four Mile House and, with his family, created the Booth Ranch. In 1869, a portion of the land was granted to the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company as part of the land for the construction of the line being built westward from Kansas City. The Kansas Pacific used the land as collateral for its many efforts to raise construction and operating funds. On January 24, 1880, the land was deeded to the Union Pacific Railroad Company as part of the consolidation of the Union Pacific Railroad, the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company. The Union Pacific sold a portion to John D. Stewart and the Platte Land Company Ltd. on April 18, 1882, for the formation of Cherry Creek Gardens, which was officially platted on December 12, 1884. Three years later, on October 12, 1887, Denver Gardens was officially platted by Charles B. Wood. Both of these subdivisions and the unplatted land around them remained unincorporated agricultural areas in Arapahoe County. The area was mostly dryland farming although one source of water was brought to the area by the Gonner Lateral Ditch. The ditch started at Holly at the section of the Highline Canal that was owned by the Northern Colorado Irrigation Company, which conveyed water recovery and use rights to the Platte Land Company on December 4, 1883 for irrigation. The water was later incorporated as the Gonner Lateral Irrigation Company, a not-for-profit corporation that was run by local residents. From its start at the Highline Canal, the ditch came north, working its way across to Dahlia and Louisiana where it turned and went west, terminating at St. Thomas Seminary. Laterals came off of the main ditch, including one that served the northeast corner of Cherry Creek Gardens and another that flowed further north to the alfalfa fields Glaiser's Farm (north of what is now Kentucky Ave.). Since the corporation was not-for-profit, the rates for water varied, based on yearly expenses. Between 1932 and 1937, five acre feet of water for one year cost between $1.25 and $2.60. The ditch was finally abandoned and the corporation dissolved on December 1, 1966. For about 60 years, the area remained rural and was known as the Sullivan area. Much of the land was in grain, but smaller parcels were used to grow cash crops such as horseradish and asparagus. Some of the parcels were included carnation greenhouses. The Sullivan telephone exchange was run as a contract station by Elsie Fleming Henderson. The switchboard was located in the living room of her home at 1640 S. Holly St. in Denver Gardens. Calls to the Sullivan area from Denver were, until the area was annexed to Denver, toll calls. During the 1930s, the installation charge for a telephone in Sullivan was $3.50, and the monthly charge, paid to Henderson was $2.50. During the 1940s, the land use began to change. While much of it was still agricultural, several tracts became the locations of riding stables and bridle paths. The best known of these bridle paths was the incorporated Cavalcade Bridle Path. It started at the corner of Mississippi and Dahlia and went east. The path ran along what would be the extension of Mississippi, from Dahlia to Holly, where it turned and followed Cherry Creek to Quebec and beyond. On Oct. 20, 1941, the Arapahoe County Commissioners adopted a zoning plan for the unincorporated portion between Sheridan Blvd. and Quebec. The Virginia Village area was zoned for farm residences. The regulations covered such things as the number and type of livestock that could be housed on the property. For the first time the use of the area was being regulated. These regulations were expanded when a building code was adopted for the area on Feb. 24, 1948, requiring a minimum of 760 square feet for each family dwelling. There were few roads into the area in the 1930s and the nearest bridge across Cherry Creek was a small two-lane wooden bridge at Colorado Blvd. Because of the creek, there were no connecting north-south streets. There were two Cherry Creek School Districts serving the area: District 36 east of Holly and District 69 west of Holly. Both districts used the Ash Grove School, at Holly and Mexico, after it was built in the 1940s, replacing a smaller school that had been on that site. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Virginia Village, Denver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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