Park Railway Company

Collection contains Board of County Commissioners' resolutions granting franchises and rights-of-way to petitioners wanting to construct, operate and maintain single or double track passenger railways in Jefferson County during the 1880s and 1890s. Franchises were granted to cross county roads. In some cases bonds and/or petitions signed by property owners and residents along the proposed lines accompany the resolutions.

Resolution of the Arapahoe County Board of County Commissioners giving the Park Railway Company the right to construct and operate a street railway along Park Ave. (or 17th) starting at the SW corner of the City Park to Colorado Blvd then north to the NE corner of City Park to Alhambra Ave. in Park Hill Addition to east line of Sec. 31, T3S, R67W