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Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
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Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
Fort Collins is a large college town, home to Colorado State University.
Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864.
Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort.
Nineteenth-century bird's-eye view of Fort Collins.
The civilian population of Fort Collins, led by local businessman Joseph Mason, led an effort to relocate the county seat to Fort Collins from LaPorte, and they were successful in 1868.
The 1880s saw the construction of a number of elegant homes and commercial buildings and the growth of a distinctive identity for Fort Collins.
Poudre Valley Bank, now Nature's Own at Linden and Walnut, Fort Collins, Colorado ( 1908 )
Fort Collins gained a reputation as a very conservative city in the twentieth century, with a prohibition of alcoholic beverages, a contentious political issue in the town's early decades, being retained from the late 1890s until student activism helped bring it to an end in 1969.
During the late 20th century, Fort Collins expanded rapidly to the south, adding new development, including several regional malls.
Management of city growth patterns became a political priority during the 1980s, as well as the revitalization of Fort Collins ' Old Town with the creation of a Downtown Development Authority.
Fort Collins, facing west ( 1875 )
In 2006, Money ranked Fort Collins as the best place to live in America, proclaiming that " great schools, low crime, good jobs in a high-tech economy and a fantastic outdoor life make Fort Collins No. 1.
" Fort Collins continues to grow in population at a measured pace, with competition from other development in northern Colorado, debate over future growth patterns and town and gown relations emerging as dominant local issues in the early 21st century.
For more information on local history see the Fort Collins Museum and Discovery Science Center's local historical archives.
Fort Collins is located at ( 40. 559238, − 105. 078302 ).
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Maj. Anderson of Fort Sumter is home and recruiting volunteers for the U.S. Army.
This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool: `` Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance.
The Fort Lauderdale encampment for drinking is foreign to most Brooklyn College boys.
Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.
: If Bill Gates owns Fort Knox, then he is rich.
Owning Fort Knox is not the only way to be rich.
There is a movement to petition the postmaster general to issue a U. S. postage stamp for him in 2011, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Fort Sumter.
* 1812 – War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.
Acapulco ’ s most historic building is the San Diego Fort, located east of the main square and originally built in 1616 to protect the city from pirate attacks.
Edmonton, and more so its surrounding region ( Nisku, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan ), is the site of most oil-and-gas related industry including refining and manufacturing.
During the 1st century AD, the Army then chose a site to the north of the emerging town in what is now the section of Bonn-Castell to build a large military installation dubbed Castra Bonnensis, i. e., literally, " Fort Bonn ".
The 1981 film Fort Apache, The Bronx is another film that used the Bronx's gritty image for its storyline.
The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".
The Center is located on Crickets Ave, one street over from Buddy Holly Ave, in what used to be the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Depot.
Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.
Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia.
Even earlier examples of this sentiment may be found in Wild Talents by author Charles Fort where he makes the statement: "... a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.
So far, only a single bird species, which has not been named, has been confidently identified from both above and below the K-Pg boundary ( it is present in the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation and Danian Fort Union Formation ).
There are historic forts at both ends of Copacabana beach ; Fort Copacabana, built in 1914, is at the south end by Posto Seis and Fort Duque de Caxias, built in 1779, at the north end.
It is in the El Paso Independent School District, located on Fort Bliss property, and serves a portion of Fort Bliss.
The only other location where this occurs is Fort Erie, Ontario, lying south of several cities in Niagara County, New York.
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Its headquarters are depicted as being in Fort Baker, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Fort Rucker, the " Home of Army Aviation ", is located about west of the city, just north of the town of Daleville.
Historic landmarks include Gunston Hall, George Mason's Home, Pohick Church with George Washington's box, Belvoir which was George Fairfax's home, the Market, and now Fort Belvoir Army Corps of Engineer base and Cranford Church.
* Fort Riley Home Page-official site.
Fort Sam Houston is known as the " Home of Army Medicine " and " Home of the Combat Medic.
Highway signs leading into Fort Dodge list it as “ Home of Karl L. King ”.
* Fort Buchanan Home Page-official site.
Of those, the most important and interesting was the library of the Home Department, which contained many books formerly belonging to the library of East India College, Fort William and the library of the East India Board in London.
Since 1918, Fort Benning, Ga, has served as the Home of the Infantry.
Since 1940, Fort Knox, KY, has served as the Home of the Armor.
Hondo ( 1953 ), The Quiet Man ( 1952 ), Operation Pacific ( 1951 ), Fort Apache ( 1948 ), 3 Godfathers ( 1948 ), They Were Expendable ( 1945 ), Dakota ( 1945 ), Tall in the Saddle ( 1944 ), The Shepherd of the Hills ( 1941 ), The Long Voyage Home ( 1940 ), Conflict ( 1936 ), and The Big Trail ( 1930 ).
* Fort Leavenworth Home Page
Hennen was selected as a payload specialist candidate in September 1988 and moved back to the " Home of Military Intelligence ", Fort Huachuca, Arizona, during March 1989 to begin Terra Scout payload operations training.
Jacob, the then Union Minister of State ( Home ) visited Manipur in 1992 and a section of the Assam Rifles, then stationed at ' Kangla ' Fort was shifted to Mahakoireng in a symbolic ceremony indicating the sincere gesture of the Union Government to vacate ' Kangla ' to fulfill the common wish of the people of Manipur.
The vacation of ' Kangla Fort ' by the Assam Rifles and its subsequent handing over to the State Government has also been assured by the then Union Home Ministers like Shri S. B.
* Fort Campbell Home Page-official site
* Kansas Soldiers ' Home, Fort Dodge, Kansas
The Laymen's Home Missionary Movement ( LHMM ) was formed by 3 former members of the Pastoral Bible Institute Committee which was formed by a large group of dissenting brethren in 1917 at the Fort Pitt Convention ( Paul S L Johnson, Raymond G Jolly and Robert Hirsch ).
* John Krewson of Fort Myers, Florida was disfellowshipped in 1955 and formed the Laodicean Home Missionary Movement in Philadelphia.
At the September 1883 Board meeting, the managers considered asking Congress for the transfer of Fort Riley, Kansas, to the Home as a new facility, as the fort was likely to be abandoned and it would be easily adaptable to Home use.
During the Second World War, the Home Guard used Fort Clarence as headquarters and, with the invasion scare, the fort was pressed into service again.
* Fort Macon State Park Home Page
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