Denver’s East High School is celebrating 150 years as a high school this year. On Thursday, the school continued the celebration with a rededication ceremony.
The school near Denver’s City Park has been in that building for 100 years, but the school has been an educational institution for many years before then.
It started off as a one-room schoolhouse called the Union School in 1859, and it was quickly moved to a building at 14th and Market in downtown Denver.
In 1873, Arapahoe School opened on Arapahoe Street between 17th and 18th as Denver’s first high school.
That school continued to grow as did Denver. In 1889, Old East was opened on Stout Street between 19th and 20th…