Riverside neighborhood, Grand Junction, Colorado Crawford Addition 1883 Grand Junction Mesa Colorado USA https://goo.gl/maps/N4tWhKN8XuuRhcWv7 Google map for Riverside neighborhood It was first known as Crawford Addition, founded by Grand Junction, Colorado pioneer J.A.K. Crawford and by Thomas Crawford, brother of George Crawford. J.A.K. Crawford lived on Lawrence Avenue and, according to the Grand Junction News in the early 1880's, owned and operated a nearby brick factory. The neighborhood is bounded by the railroad tracks and the Colorado River. It may have extended to 1st Street at one time. The Mobley Addition also became part of the Riverside neighborhood. At one time, Main Street extended from downtown through Riverside and the Main Street Bridge took people from the Riverside neighborhood to the Redlands. According to oral history interviewee Joseph Egger, who moved to the Grand Valley in 1891, much of what is now Riverside was covered in fruit orchards prior to the neighborhood's establishment. The neighborhood was cut in half by the construction of the Grand Avenue viaduct and aqueduct, which replaced the Main Street Bridge. There was a dump in Riverside that was subject to flooding from the river. George Robinson and other residents petitioned the town government to turn the dump into a park, which occurred in 1917. At that time, the river would often flood, and, according to Riverside resident Mary Cox, would sound as loud as a freight train, sending sheds and even houses floating downstream. Eugene Perry recalled that the floods were often a few feet high and that they would flood cellars. yes yes Mobley Addition