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The discovery of gold in the South Platte Valley Valley in 1858 attracted national attention to the area that would eventually become Westminster, Colorado. Many pioneers from the east chose to settle in Colorado over California because of the promise of fortune and The Homestead Act of 18.62. The area was home to wildlife such as buffalo and antelope before settlements were built. Near Crown Point, there is evidence that Arapaho Indians once lived in the area. Pleasant DeSpain from Kentucky was the first permanent settler in Westminster. He built his home on 160 acres in 1870. The area became known locally as DeSpain Junction. Edward Bruce Bowles also settled in the area in 1881, building a brick Italianate house that is now called the Bowles Home. In 1988, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. DeSpain Junction became a small farming community that attracted new settlers despite Colorado's harsh climate. Connecticut real estate developer C.J. Harris, a Connecticut real estate developer, arrived in DeSpain Junction in 1885 to purchase the DeSpain farm. Harris combined the homesteads into one and split it into smaller parcels of land that he sold to fruit growers. Harris changed the name of DeSpain Junction to his own and called the area Harris, Colorado. Henry T. Mayham, a New Yorker, convinced the Denver Presbytery in 1890 to build a university upon the land he owned in Harris. The school was finally built using red sandstone from Colorado's Red Rocks area, after delays due to the depression of 1893. The "Princeton of the West" curriculum was inspired by Princeton University. Incorporated as Westminster University of Colorado in 1908, classes started in 1908. One year of tuition was $50. In 1917, all of the students who attended the school left to join World War I. The school was closed. It was a school and church for ten years. Harris voted in 1911 to incorporate the city. The name was changed to Westminster to honor the university, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
