Bergen Park

Bergen Park
Bergen Park is located in Colorado
Bergen Park
Location within Colorado
Bergen Park is located in the United States
Bergen Park
Location within the United States
Typecity park
LocationEvergreen, Colorado, USA
Coordinates39°41′24″N 105°21′43″W / 39.69°N 105.362°W / 39.69; -105.362
Area25.1 acres (10.2 ha)
Elevation7,798 feet (2,377 m)
OperatorCity and County of Denver
Openyes
Bergen Park
Built1915
ArchitectOlmsted Brothers; J.J.B. Benedict
Architectural styleRustic
MPSDenver Mountain Parks MPS
NRHP reference No.90001707
Added to NRHPNovember 15, 1990

Bergen Park is a park near Evergreen, Colorado. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Bergen Park was established in 1859 when pioneer settler Thomas Cunningham Bergen built a log cabin on his land and named his property.

History

Thomas Cunningham Bergen (1820–1888) took up the first squatter's claim at the site, then known as Elk Park, in June 1859, and completed a log cabin there on July 4, 1859. "Bergen's Ranch" became a way station on the stagecoach and wagon road to the mines. Bergen served on the first Jefferson County Board of Commissioners from 1862 and was inducted into the Jefferson County Hall of Fame in 1993. He later moved to a farm near Morrison. The City and County of Denver acquired the ground for its mountain parks system on October 13, 1915, and the State Historical Society of Colorado and the city placed a monument to Bergen there on July 4, 1934. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.


See also

References

  1. ↑ Hometownlocator.com: Bergen Park, with map
  2. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. ↑ "History". Evergreen Creative District. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ Dawson, John Frank (1954). Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 9.
  5. ↑ "Died". Rocky Mountain News. Denver. February 3, 1888. p. 5 – via Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.
  6. ↑ "Bergen Monument". Historic Jeffco. Jefferson County Historical Commission. Retrieved October 12, 2026.
  7. 1 2 Moss, Ann (October 3, 1988). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Bergen Park (Report). National Park Service. p. Section 8, p. 2.
  8. ↑ Hall, Frank (1890). "Appendix: Register of pioneers of 1858–1860". History of the State of Colorado. Vol. 2. Chicago: Rocky Mountain Publishing Company. p. 553.
  9. ↑ "Bergen Monument". Historic Jeffco. Jefferson County Historical Commission. Retrieved October 12, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Past Commissioners". Jefferson County, Colorado. Retrieved October 12, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Hall of Fame List". Historic Jeffco. Jefferson County Historical Commission. Retrieved October 17, 2026.
  12. ↑ Vickers, William B. (1880). History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys, Colorado. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co. p. 553.
  13. ↑ "Bergen Monument". Historic Jeffco. Jefferson County Historical Commission. Retrieved October 12, 2026.