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1928 - Alexander Film Company relocates to Colorado Springs. 1935 - Peak Theatre opens. [18] 1936 - Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center built. [5] 1937 Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo begins. Colorado Springs Museum established. [19] 1938 - Broadmoor Ice Palace (skating rink) opens. 1940 - Population: 33,237. [9] 1941 - U.S. military Camp Carson ...
Grand Junction: Damaged by flooding in 1983. Demolished in 1988. [6] 2: Fifth Street Bridge: Fifth Street Bridge: February 4, 1985 (#85000220) July 22, 1994: Northbound U.S. Highway 50 over the Colorado River: Grand Junction: Replaced in 1989. [6]
Grand Junction is 247 miles (398 km) west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.The city has a council–manager form of government. [8] It is a major commercial and transportation hub within the large area between the Green River and the Continental Divide, and the largest city in Colorado outside of the Front Range Corridor.
Colorado Springs annexed Roswell in 1880. [55] The city purchased 640 acres in North Cheyenne Cañon after citizens of Colorado Springs voted for the measure in 1885. [20] Between 1889 and 1890 Seavey's Addition, West Colorado Springs, East End, and another North End addition were annexed to the city. [76]
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reaches Grand Junction. November 7: An earthquake estimated at 6.2 M fa affects the Denver area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). The quake causes minor damage in Colorado and southern Wyoming and is the most intense in Colorado recorded history. [81] October 24: The Town of Delta ...
Colorado Springs is 70 miles south of Denver, which has the largest population of any city in Colorado. Colorado Springs has the largest area of any city in the state, with 194.87 square miles (504.7 km 2) in 2013. [6] Of that, 132 square miles (340 km 2) is developed land. [1]: 32 It has 16,331 parkland acres and 7,431 street land miles. [6]
The Colorado Midland Railway (reporting mark CM), [1] incorporated in 1883, was the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Leadville and through the divide at Hagerman Pass to Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction.
Colorado Springs Cryolite was discovered by October 1882 at St. Peter's Dome near Pike's Peak. [57] [58] 1882 coal Colorado Springs The completion of the Denver and New Orleans Railroad in July, 1882 was instrumental in the effective production and shipment of coal from the Franceville Mine. It became the first coal mine that was "worked to any ...