Colorado Springs
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- Names
Colorado Springs
Fountain Colony
El Dorado City
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located in central Colorado on mesa (height is 1831 meters) at base of Pikes Peak & juncture of Monument & Fountain Creeks; boomed in Cripple Creek gold strikes (1890s); tourism, health resorts & area military installations supported growth.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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- Died
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