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Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864.
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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.
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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Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.
The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.
Nevertheless so short was the supply of seed that the settlers were forced to retreat to Fort Daer for food.
In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.
Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.
Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.
As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.
Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.
Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.
When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.
The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.
Gen. John B. Floyd, who was to take command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before Brig.
Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.
Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.
In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.
Fort Astoria was constructed in 1811.
In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.
Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles ( 650 on foot ), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1811.
In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.
Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.
Colonisation began in 1603, when the Portuguese Pero Coelho de Souza constructed the Fort of São Tiago and founded the settlement of Nova Lisboa ( New Lisbon ).
Later, the Dutch occupied the Brazilian Northeast and founded the Fort Schoonenborch.
The Lochaber Yacht Club on Achintore Road, Fort William Is a Community Amateur Sports Club and was founded in 1954.
The Nonsuch continued to the southern portion of James Bay, where its explorers founded Fort Rupert at the mouth of the Rupert River.
The company founded its first headquarters at Fort Nelson at the mouth of the Nelson River in present day northeastern Manitoba.
The town of Kalat is said to have been founded by and named Qalat-e Sewa ( Sewa's Fort ), after Sewa, a legendary hero of the Brahui people.
The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men in 1779, near the original Cumberland settlement of Fort Nashborough.
At the same time Russians colonized Alaska and even founded settlements in California, like Fort Ross.
In 1579, he became in command over the newly founded Fort Drakeborough, an establishment that in 1818 was taken over by Cornelius Coot and later renamed Fort Duckburg
* Fort Wayne Female College is founded ; it will later be renamed Taylor University.
* Fort St George, the first settlement of British India, is founded at Madras.
* June 6 – Fort Worth, Texas, is founded.
* December 25 – Fort Nashborough, later to become Nashville, Tennessee, is founded by James Robertson.
The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.
In 1895, Tilak founded the Shri Shivaji Fund Committee for celebration of ' Shiv Punya Tithi ' and for the reconstruction of the Samadhi of Shivaji Maharaj at Fort Raigad.
Stephen Hyatt Pell, who spearheaded the restoration effort, founded the Fort Ticonderoga Association in 1931, which is now responsible for the fort.
Nathaniel Wyeth, the original founder of Fort Hall in 1834, writes in his diary that they found a ford across the Snake River southwest of where he founded Fort Hall.
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