Denver
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- Names
Denver
Mile High City
Auraria
St. Charles
Placer Camp
Montana
Saint Charles
The Mexican Diggings
The Spanish Diggings
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located where Great Plains and Rocky Mountains meet; was early stopping place for Amerindians, then for trappers and traders; was damaged in Indian Wars in 1860s; boomed with discoveries of gold and silver in 1870s-1880s; now hub of Western finance and business.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Library of Congress HABS/HAER (1987-); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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