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The City of Florence is a statutory city located in Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 3,822 at the 2020 United States Census . [ 4 ] Florence is a part of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Fremont County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado.As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,939. [1] The county seat is Cañon City. [2] The county is named for 19th-century explorer and presidential candidate John C. Frémont.
The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado, it is higher than the high-points of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
The Downtown Florence Historic District in Florence, Colorado was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [1]A walking tour through the historic district includes the Florence Post Office where a WPA-era mural “Antelope Watering Hole” can be seen, and the McCandless Cabin, the oldest continually occupied house in Florence.
ADX Florence is a 37-acre (15 ha) complex located at 5880 Highway 67, in an unincorporated area, [20] with a Florence, Colorado, postal address. It is located about 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver and 40 miles (64 km) south of Colorado Springs . [ 21 ]
The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad (F&CC) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad running northward from junctions with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at the mill towns of Florence and later moved to Cañon City, Colorado, on the banks of the Arkansas River, up steep and narrow Phantom Canyon to the Cripple Creek Mining District, west of Pikes Peak.
SH 67 begins at its southern terminus with State Highway 96 in Wetmore, Colorado. It proceeds north into Fremont County and the city of Florence, where it is signed as Robinson Avenue to State Highway 115 (Main Street) and overlaps the highway for half a mile west before turning north again, signed as Pikes Peak Avenue. The highway crosses the ...