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Central City is a home rule municipality located in Gilpin and Clear Creek counties, Colorado, United States. [1] Central City is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Gilpin County. [7] The city population was 779, all in Gilpin County, at the 2020 United States census. [5]
By the time the Territory of Colorado was formed on February 28, 1861, Central City was already the largest city in the entire territory, though Denver was made the state capital. The Central City/Black Hawk area was a basically continuous arc of mining camps and urban development, with a population of more than 3,000 at its height in 1870.
Central City is situated on lands originally owned by Shade Township's first settlers, Casper Stotler and George Lambert. It was founded in 1894 by Anthony Wechtenhiser and received its name from its central location along the projected Midland Railroad. The objective was to build a railroad into the large coal field known to exist in this region.
The Central City Opera House is located in the Central City/Black Hawk Historic District in Central City, Colorado, United States.It was constructed in 1878. [3] It has offered operatic and theatrical productions that drew prominent actors and performers in the late 19th-century, and in the early 20th-century it was a motion picture theater.
Central City is a home rule-class city [6] in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in the United States.The population was 5,819 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the largest city in the county and the principal community in the Central City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Muhlenberg County.
Teller House is a historic hotel in Central City, Colorado.Built in 1872, the building now serves as a restaurant. The bar at the Teller House is well known for The Face on the Barroom Floor, a painting of a woman's face on the wooden floor, done in 1936 by local artist Herndon Davis, as a joke after being fired by the Teller House.
By the 1880s, Central City was a boomtown after the arrival of a second railroad, the Burlington & Missouri River. During this time of peak growth, three banks were built, in addition to a hardware store, a roller mill, two newspapers, three lumberyards, a cracker factory, a cigar factory, a new brick school, nine churches, and Nebraska Central ...
Central City has a significant Civil Rights History. In addition to the boycott on Dryades Street, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded with Martin Luther King Jr. in Central City in 1957. [ 2 ]