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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.
Location of Mesa County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mesa County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
The town of Grand Junction was founded on September 26, 1881, by the Grand Junction Town Company. The founder of the town, George A. Crawford, was a Civil War veteran and President of the Grand Junction Town Company. He was accompanied by William McGinley, J. Clayton Nichols, and four unidentified companions. By 1882, the settlement had ...
Mesa County comprises the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2020 it ranked as the 271st most populous metropolitan area in the United States . [ 2 ] It is the only metropolitan area in Colorado not located on the Front Range .
The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction of Buffalo and White Oak bayous in 1836. Houston served as the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas .
Grand Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) within Mesa County, Colorado located in a high-altitude river valley surrounding the county seat of Grand Junction and stretching 24 miles (39 km) east-west between the municipalities of Palisade and Fruita. It lies approximately 200 miles (320 km) west-southwest of Denver along Interstate 70.
August 30: Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen place their first advertisement for the proposed "Town of Houston". [2] December 15: Congress selects Houston as the provisional capitol; President Houston signs the bill. [3] The Allen Brothers, John Kirby and Augustus Chapman, co-found Houston. First cemetery is established as "City ...
Town & Country Village is an open-air shopping center in western Houston, Texas, United States, within the Memorial City district. The complex straddles the northbound frontage road of Beltway 8, north of Memorial Drive and south of CityCentre. From 1983 to 2004, Town & Country Village neighbored Town & Country Mall, an enclosed shopping mall ...