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Fort Collins is the fourth most populous city in the State of Colorado and the 185th most populous city in the United States.
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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 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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In 1939, the Chicago City Council added a fourth star to the city flag to represent Fort Dearborn.
In the bicentennial year of 1976, opened by a concert by Fort Sheridan's 81st Army Band, Navy Pier began its fourth life as an area for public exhibits, when the East Buildings ( furthest into Lake Michigan ) were opened as exhibition halls.
Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas was built in the summer of 1795 on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff, just south of the Wolf River.
Podiappuhamy ( otherwise known as Dodampe Mudalali ) were said by the Criminal Investigations Department ( CID ) to have jumped to their deaths from the fourth floor of the CID building in the Fort.
By 2011 Fort Bend was ranked the fourth most racially-diverse country in the United States by USA Today.
Also in this part of the park is Fort Grey — the fourth camp ground and a heritage site.
Fort Beauregard, which is located a fourth of a mile outside the village, was a Confederate stronghold during the American Civil War.
As of the 2000 Census, 16. 31 % of Ridgefield's residents identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, which was the sixth highest in the United States and fourth highest of any municipality in New Jersey — behind Palisades Park ( 36. 38 %), Leonia ( 17. 24 %) and Fort Lee ( 17. 18 %) — for all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.
The installation was named Fort Meigs in honor of Ohio's fourth governor, Return Jonathan Meigs.
Additionally, 3. 07 % of Leonia's residents identified themselves as being of Japanese ancestry, which was the fourth highest of any municipality in New Jersey — behind Fort Lee ( 6. 09 %), Demarest ( 3. 72 %) and Edgewater ( 3. 22 %) — for all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.
The show's setting changed with the fourth season, when the men of Fort Baxter were reassigned to Camp Fremont in California.
Giocangga, chief of the Beiles of the Sixes, was originally under Li's command since his grandson, the young Nurhaci was under his hostage but later chose to oppose Nikan Wailan and took his fourth son Taksi to support Atai at his stronghold Fort Gure.
Ferguson was born fourth of six children in the former fur trading post of Fort Vermilion, Alberta, approximately 800 km north of Edmonton.
In 1984, he contested a by-election in the Winnipeg riding of Fort Garry, but finished fourth with 1035 votes ( Liberal leader Sharon Carstairs was also a candidate ).
The most extreme case occurred on November 22, 1950, when the Fort Wayne Pistons defeated the Minneapolis Lakers by a record-low score of 19-18, including 3-1 in the fourth quarter.
Major League Soccer held its fourth annual college draft on February 6 and 7, 1999 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind is the fourth studio album from American country music artist George Strait, released in 1984.
He traveled widely, spending his fourth grade in Rome, his ninth grade in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar and his senior year in college in Legon, Ghana.
In 1977, WOWO's studios moved to the fourth floor of the Central Building at 203 West Wayne Street in Fort Wayne, where it would remain for the next fifteen years.
One evening, the fourth officer, Charles Lightoller and four midshipmen rowed to Fort Denison and climbed the tower with a plan to fool locals into believing a Boer raiding party was attacking Sydney.
However, the War Production Board gave the dam's third and fourth generators a " low priority " rating, which effectively killed funding for the Fort Loudoun extension, and the side project was abandoned.
A fourth, minor reservoir is at Fort Reno in Tenleytown.
Fort Wayne moved to the Midwest Division following the 2008 PDL divisional re-alignment, but remained disappointingly uncompetitive, slumping to a 2-9-5 record, and finishing fourth of five in the division, 18 points behind champs Chicago Fire Premier.
When the battalion colors returned to Fort Campbell the unit had distinguished itself by earning two Valorous Unit Awards, and its third and fourth Presidential Unit Citations for the battles of Trang Bang and Dong Ap Bia Mountain ( commonly known as “ Hamburger Hill ”).
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