The Arvada Enterprise (Arvada, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
656 issues from 1908 to 1924, published in Morrison, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located in Jefferson County, Colorado, the town of Arvada was first platted in 1880. Ute Indians and the Arapaho and Cheyenne peoples originally inhabited the area, and white settlement of the region began as early as the 1850s with the discovery of gold. Arvada, officially incorporated in 1904 and now a major suburb of Denver, developed into a residential and commercial hub for agriculture and was once known as the “Celery Capital of the World.”
The Arvada Enterprise printed its first issue on July 3, 1908, under John F. White, a Methodist minister, who “decided that the Arvada community was not receiving the newspaper guidance and quality that he felt it should have” (The Arvada Enterprise, June 1, 1933). J. F. White sought to publish the paper with “the tendency to uplift” and the aim “to work early and late to promote the interest of our business men and never say a disparaging word of any of them, and stay by old Jefferson county and its growth to the very last” (The Arvada Enterprise, July 3, 1908). White was joined by T. S. Knapp, and together, the “sedate preacher and hustling real estate man” printed a “newsy, well edited” paper (The Colorado Transcript, July 16, 1908).
In 1911, Thad S. Sutton leased the paper and took over the editorial reins of the Enterprise. Sutton “brought to the newspaper a more complete newspaper training, and really started the Enterprise in bigger and better things” (Arvada Enterprise, June 1, 1933). On April 17, 1913, the Enterprise was…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Morrison, Colorado, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress