GOLDEN, a city of Colorado, U.S.A., 14m. W. by N. of Denver, at an altitude of 5, 7oof t. ; the county seat of Jefferson county. It is served by the Colorado and Southern and the Denver and Intermountain (electric) railways. The population in 193o was 2,426. The Colorado School of Mines (1874) is situated at Golden, and one m. S. is the State industrial school for boys. The manufactures include china, pottery, drain pipe, bricks, flour and malted milk. Golden is at the entrance to Denver's system of mountain parks. The city was named after Tom Golden, one of the pioneer prospectors who established a mining camp at this point in 1859. It was incorporated as a town in 1865 and as a city in 187o. From 1862 to 1868 it was the capital of Colorado Territory.