The neighborhood was named after John Greenleaf Whittier [6](1807-1892), who was a nineteenth-century America poet and abolitionist. Do you live in the Whittier Neighborhood? If so please visit Creating Your Community [7]and share your photos and stories!
Links:
[1] http://history.denverlibrary.org/blog/category/western-history/creating-communities
[2] http://history.denverlibrary.org/blog/category/free-tagging/whittier
[3] http://history.denverlibrary.org/blog/files/ajaxhelper_0.jpg
[4] http://creatingcommunities.denverlibrary.org/community/whittier-neighborhood
[5] http://creatingcommunities.denverlibrary.org/community/five-points-neighborhood
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier
[7] http://creatingcommunities.denverlibrary.org/
