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Golden, city, seat (1861) of Jefferson county, north-central Colorado, U.S. It lies on Clear Creek at an elevation of 5,675 feet (1,730 metres) at the foot of Lookout Mountain, just west of Denver, and it is separated from the metropolitan area by the Table Mountains plateau. Founded as a mining town in 1859, it was named Golden City for Tom Golden, a miner. From 1862 to 1867 Golden was the capital of the Colorado Territory,...

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