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Fort Collins


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Fort Collins

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located in N Colorado on Cache la Poudre River in E foothills of Rockies; original fort was built to guard the Overland Trail but was abandoned in 1867.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Hillerbrand+Magsamen (American, born 1965/born 1969)

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