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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 .
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.
Location of Fremont County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fremont County, Colorado. 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 ...
The Colorado Women's Correctional Facility, near Cañon City in an unincorporated area, was decommissioned on June 4, 2009. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates the Federal Correctional Complex, Florence in Fremont County, which consists of several separate Federal prisons, including the only supermax facility in the federal ...
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.
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 Florence Post Office, at 121 N. Pikes Peak St. in Florence, Colorado, was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as US Post Office-Florence Main. [1] It was designed by Louis A. Simon in Starved Classical style. [2] It includes a WPA mural painted by Olive Rush in 1937, showing a group of antelope. [2]