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The Colorado River Water Conservation District, commonly referred to as the Colorado River District or more simply the "River District," is a public water planning and policy agency for the U.S. state of Colorado that was created in 1937 pursuant to the Water Conservancy District Act of Colorado. [1]
Schlee Brewery Historic District: March 28, 1988 : 526, 543, 560, and rear 526 S. Front St., and the northeastern corner of Beck St. and Wall Alley: No: Overlaps with city historic district 145 # Schlee-Kemmler Building
Fort Wagner or Battery Wagner was a beachhead fortification on Morris Island, South Carolina, that covered the southern approach to Charleston Harbor. Named for deceased Lt. Col. Thomas M. Wagner , it was the site of two American Civil War battles in the campaign known as Operations Against the Defenses of Charleston in 1863, in which United ...
Fort Independence, Fort Independent, Fort Breckenridge, Fort Meribeh Breckenridge: Summit: 1859 Stockade No remains [12] Fort Lyon 1: Fort Fauntleroy, Fort Wise Lamar area Prowers 1860 1867 U.S. Army fort Destroyed by fire [7] [13] Fort Weld: Denver: Denver: 1861 1865 U.S. Army post Historical marker at 8th/Vallejo [7] Camp Collins / Fort ...
Colorado. Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Otero County; Fort Uncompahgre Living History Museum, Delta; Four Mile Historic Park, Denver [18] Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, at Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs; South Park City, Fairplay; Cross Orchards Grand Junction; Connecticut. Mystic Seaport, Mystic; Florida. Bellevue Plantation ...
The most seaward guns were placed in Battery Wagner (often referred to in Union accounts as Fort Wagner) and Battery Gregg, both on Morris Island. Near them, on a man-made island on the same side of the harbor, was Fort Sumter. Fort Moultrie and its outlying batteries lay across the harbor on Sullivan's Island. These formed the first or outer ...
The names of the 17 Colorado rivers with a drainage basin of more than 10,000 square kilometers (3,900 sq mi) are shown in bold. Oceans and streams outside of Colorado are shown in italics. Pacific Ocean. Gulf of California. Colorado River [b] Green River. Yampa River 21,506 km 2 (8,304 mi 2) Little Snake River 10,629 km 2 (4,104 mi 2)
The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams on the main stem of the Colorado [citation needed] and hundreds more on tributaries.