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Denver (/ ˈ d ɛ n v ər / DEN-vər) is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.It is located in the western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. [1]
The Denver area, part of the Territory of Kansas, was sparsely settled until the late 1850s.Occasional parties of prospectors came looking for gold, then moved on. In July 1858, Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek (in the present-day suburb of Englewood) that yielded about 20 troy ounces (620 g) of gold, the first significant gold ...
Denver's rivals hoped to use antipathy toward Denver to have themselves named as the capital. Some of the larger towns in Colorado did not mount active campaigns for the capital. Leadville , which in 1880 census was the second-most populous town in Colorado with a population of 14,820, showed no interest in becoming state capital.
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America.. This partial list of city nicknames in Colorado includes some of the sobriquets, pseudonyms, and slogans that identify, or have identified, the cities and towns of the U.S. state of Colorado.
November 22: Denver City founded east of Cherry Creek as a rival to Auraria, displacing the St. Charles Association. [4] [2] 1859 The first burial ground, the Mount Prospect Cemetery (later called the Old Denver City Cemetery) was established. [5] John C. Moore becomes mayor. [6] April 23: Rocky Mountain News begins publication. [7]
The Downtown Denver Partnership and the Golden Triangle Neighborhood Association define the Golden Triangle as extending one block east to Lincoln Street, thereby incorporating almost all of Civic Center Park and the institutions surrounding them (with the exception of the Colorado State Capitol in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and a few ...
Holiday names are usually pretty straightforward. New Year's, Thanksgiving and — perhaps least creatively, the 4th of July — all have origins that are fairly easy to figure out.
Mile High Stadium (originally Bears Stadium until 1968) was an outdoor multi-purpose stadium located in Denver, Colorado, from 1948 to 2002.. The stadium was built in 1948 to accommodate the Denver Bears baseball team, [5] which was a member of the Western League during its construction.