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The Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Power Plant is a former commercial nuclear power station located near the town of Platteville in northern Colorado in the United States. It originally operated from 1979 until 1989. It had a 330 MWe High-temperature gas reactor (HTGR). The plant was decommissioned between 1989 and 1992.
Fort Saint Vrain was an 1837 fur trading post built by the Bent, St. Vrain Company, and located at the confluence of Saint Vrain Creek and the South Platte River, about 20 miles (32 km) east of the Rocky Mountains in the unorganized territory of the United States, in present-day Weld County, Colorado.
A company owned by Charles Bent and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain built the fort in 1833 to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for buffalo robes. For much of its 16-year operation as a trading post, the fort was the only major white American permanent settlement on the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and the ...
Fort St. Vrain may refer to: Fort Saint Vrain (also known as St. Vrain's Fort), a historic 19th century trading post in northern Colorado;
Platteville is located at (40.214468, -104.824070 [10]The town is situated along the east bank of the South Platte River at the intersection of U.S. Highway 85 and State Highway 66.
A post office was established at St. Vrain on January 18, 1859, and later that year, the St. Vrain Claims Club platted the Town of St. Vrain to avoid claim jumping. The extralegal Territory of Jefferson was organized on October 24, 1859, and on November 28, 1859, the Jefferson Territory created 12 counties including St. Vrain's County and ...
The St. Vrain Historical Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization in Longmont, Colorado and was officially organized in 1963. The Society supports and maintains several historic properties: the Old Mill Park, Hoverhome, Hover Farmstead, and the Old St Stephens Church. [1] [2] Tours of Old Mill Park and Hover Farmstead can be arranged.
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