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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.

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 ).

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.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, located at Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, was named in his honor.

* Miami Fusion, a professional soccer ( football ) club located in Fort Lauderdale

Drawing from the original shape of the Fort Thüngen walls where the museum was located, Pei planned to remove a portion of the original foundation.

Having the requisite qualifications, Robinson and several other black soldiers applied for admission to an Officer Candidate School ( OCS ) then located at Fort Riley.

He died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm in the surgeon's quarters in Fort Lyon, Colorado, located east of Las Animas.

Fort Garland, located within the city of the same name in Colorado, was the location where Kit Carson briefly re-located his family while he served as commandant of a company of roughly 100 New Mexico Volunteers in 1866-1867.

The Kit Carson Chapel, located in Fort Lyon, Colorado, was constructed from the stones of the surgeons ' quarters where he died.

From its measurement of the natural resonance frequency of caesium — which is used to define the second — NIST broadcasts time signals via longwave radio station WWVB at Fort Collins, Colorado, and shortwave radio stations WWV and WWVH, located at Fort Collins, Colorado and Kekaha, Hawaii, respectively.

Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States.

The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized entity, located on HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.

Starfleet Headquarters is shown to be located on Earth, northeast of the Golden Gate Bridge in the Fort Baker area.

The main campus is located near Starfleet Headquarters in what is now Fort Baker, California.

The main Fort Garry Campus ( located on the Red River in south Winnipeg ) comprises over 60 teaching and research buildings of the University and sits on of land.

** Fort Vancouver, 19th-century fur trading post, located in present-day Vancouver, Washington

Admiralty Head Lighthouse is located in this area, on the grounds of Fort Casey State Park.

Washington State Parks located on the island include Deception Pass State Park ( the most visited state park in Washington ), Joseph Whidbey State Park, Fort Ebey State Park, Fort Casey State Park, Possession Point State Park, and South Whidbey State Park.