West Pleasant View

History

West Pleasant View traces its origins in the Colorado Gold Rush, when in 1860 George Pullman and several partners assembled claims to create the Cold Spring Ranch, comprising most of its present land area. With a hewn log Stage station built by Pullman at the southeast side of the junction of today's South Golden and Mt. Vernon Roads, the ranch served many area residents and travelers at this important crossroads to and from the gold fields, served by Wells Fargo and other stagecoach companies. Making enough money on this and other ventures to realize his sleeper railcar dream, Pullman returned east in the mid-1860s, and the ranch continued as an important way station through subsequent proprietors, including three generations of Jefferson County Sheriffs. In 1904, the Denver, Lakewood and Golden Railroad changed its name to the Denver and Intermountain Railroad and began rail mass transit to the area; soon it began to be subdivided. The Denver Rifle Club purchased five acres at its northeast end, which in time attracted the attention of the Colorado National Guard, which acquired property there and created Rifle Range in 1903, since built up to become the Camp George West Historic District. Residential development began in 1908 when the Pleasant View Development and Investment Company was created by ranch property owners D.J. Myerpeter, George C. Gilman and E.E. Sherwood. with Cecelia Prentiss building Pleasant View's first house. Fellow Pleasant View pioneer Susan Hubbard Martin, a University of Denver graduate in music, vowed "Pleasant View shall have a church of its very own" and Pleasant View Community Church was dedicated on February 8, 1931. West Colfax Avenue was built through Pleasant View in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project, and many…

Geography

West Pleasant View is bordered to the west by Golden, to the east by Lakewood, and to the north by unincorporated Applewood. Interstate 70, U.S. Route 6, and U.S. Route 40 (West Colfax Avenue) all cross the community from west to east. Downtown Denver is to the east. The West Pleasant View CDP has an area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• Astravo Online Academy High School
  High · LAKEWOOD · 2,134 students · 52:1 ratio
• Lakewood High School
  High · LAKEWOOD · 1,885 students · 18.9:1 ratio
• Ralston Valley Senior High School
  High · ARVADA · 1,843 students · 21.2:1 ratio
• Arvada West High School
  High · ARVADA · 1,840 students · 20.4:1 ratio
• Bear Creek High School
  High · LAKEWOOD · 1,431 students · 17.9:1 ratio
• Golden High School
  High · GOLDEN · 1,416 students · 21.5:1 ratio
• Dakota Ridge Senior High School
  High · LITTLETON · 1,338 students · 19.1:1 ratio
• Pomona High School
  High · ARVADA · 1,132 students · 19.2:1 ratio