Early Lakewood’s History Highlighted in New Book

June 9, 2011 - PRLog -- New from Arcadia Publishing and local authors Robert Autobee, Kristen Autobee and the Lakewood's Heritage Center is Early Lakewood. The book boasts more than 200 vintage images giving readers a unique opportunity to reconnect to the history that shaped their community.

Since Lakewood’s settlement in the 1860s, it has been a community in search of an identity, fluctuating from farm center to factory town, from Denver streetcar suburb to the map’s stopover point between the big city and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Once known for its fruit orchards and dairy and poultry farms, Lakewood in modern times has been home to the western third of the nation’s longest commercial street, Colfax Avenue, and houses more federal agencies than any community outside of Washington, DC.

Most of the buildings associated with Lakewood’s agricultural and manufacturing past are gone but the can-do spirit of the men and women who forged and fashioned the city’s destiny as a microcosm of western American life from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries is recalled in these pages.

Highlights of Early Lakewood include:
•   Early Residents
•   Lakewood’s Agricultural Foundation
•   Trains and Trolleys
•   A Town Searches for its Center
•   Colfax Avenue
•   War Comes to Lakewood
 
Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or
(888)-313-2665.

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With more than 6,000 local history titles published to date, Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States. Widely recognized sepia books feature hundreds of vintage historical images.