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The Arvada, Colorado, post office opened on February 16, 1871, [12] with Benjamin Wadsworth as the first postmaster. Colorado was granted statehood on August 1, 1876, and the Town of Arvada was incorporated on August 14, 1904. [5] A vibrant agricultural community, Arvada was once known as the "Celery Capital of the World." [13]
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The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado, it is higher than the high-points of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
It continues north through the western parts of Arvada where it becomes Coal Creek Canyon Rd. The highway continues west-north-west through Coal Creek Canyon and aptly named Wondervu , across the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at Pinecliffe , eventually joining the Peak to Peak Scenic Byway northbound.
Ralston continued panning for gold, but after a few days gave up and caught up with his party. The site of Lewis Ralston's gold discovery now lies along Ralston Creek in the City of Arvada's Gold Strike Park. In 1858, Ralston brought another group of prospectors back to the site of his 1850 discovery.
The Arvada Historical Society owns the mill and provides tours of the Arvada Flour Mill Museum by appointment. It is a three-story 50 by 25 feet (15.2 m × 7.6 m) building built in 1923 on a concrete and rock foundation, with a full basement, and with a protruding 23 by 20 feet (7.0 m × 6.1 m) office extension.
All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.