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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 established. [3] 1946 - Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph newspaper in publication. [2]
[a] Colorado has five municipalities above 10,000 feet (3,048 m) elevation, 40 above 8,000 feet (2,438 m) elevation, 115 above 6,000 feet (1,829 m) elevation, 256 above 4,000 feet (1,219 m) elevation, and all 273 municipalities are above 3,350 feet (1,021 m) elevation. The Town of Carbonate, Colorado is technically the highest elevation ...
Colorado Springs is near the base of Pikes Peak, which rises 14,115 feet (4,302.31 m) above sea level on the eastern edge of the Southern Rocky Mountains. The city is the largest city north of Mexico above 6000 feet in elevation.
May 5 – George Cary, architect (born 1859). [29] May 14 – Heber J. Grant, 7th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1856) May 17 – Bobby Hutchins, Our Gang films child actor (born 1925; killed in military aviation accident) May 18 – William Joseph Simmons, founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (born 1880) May 21
Pike National Forest is the western portion of Cheyenne Mountain and much of the rest of the Pikes Peak mountainous area. 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]
The Making of Colorado: A Historical Sketch (1908) 324 pages online edition; Philpott, William. Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country (University of Washington Press; 2013) 488 pages; the post 1945 transformation of a once isolated and little-visited region into a major ski and tourist destination; Radelet, Michael.
Colorado Springs grew by 164% when 11,140 people settled in the town between 1880 and 1890. [52] After the Cripple Creek gold discovery in 1891, the people who made a fortune from the gold rush and industry built large houses on Wood Avenue, then in the undeveloped downtown area of Colorado Springs.
The British and Soviet forces near Wismar on the Baltic coast, 3 May 1945. The German ocean liner Cap Arcona was sunk by British warplanes in the Bay of Lübeck with 5,000 concentration camp prisoners aboard. Over 400 SS personnel made it to lifeboats and were rescued but only 350 of the prisoners survived. [6] [7]