Arvada House Painters

The city of Arvada resides in two Colorado Counties, Jefferson and Adams. The population, in 2020, was over 124,000 with about 121,500 in Jefferson County and a little over 2,800 residing in Adams county.

Arvada came to be as many of the Colorado cities did with the search and discovery of Gold in the 1850's.

Many prospectors on their way to the California Gold Rush traveled through Colorado and would test their luck in the streams and find some treasure.

In the beginning it usually wasn't enough to keep them from staying, but as California became increasingly crowded and a bit played out, they came back.

This was the case in Arvada, in the summer of 1850, when a prospector from Georgia named, Lewis Ralston, on his way to the west coast dipped his sluice pan in a stream and found about 6 grams of gold. Ralston's companions named the stream Ralston's Creek in his honor. The next morning they all headed out toward California.

By 1859 Ralston was back in Colorado with a group of prospectors searching the streams and also the hard rock deposits in the mountains.

They soon discovered Arvada had riches besides the Gold. That was rich fertile land that some of the prospectors started farming and found an eager market for their crops among the new prospectors staying in the area. As the population grew, so did the farms in the valley. At one point, Arvada was called the "Celery Capital of the World"