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Pueblo


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Pueblo

Fountain City

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located on Arkansas River in S central Colorado; Jim Beckwourth, once a warchief of Crow Indians, established a trading post here; damaged by floods in 1921 which spurred construction of dam & flood control system.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Cyrus Fulton (American, 1873-1949)

Neil Meitzler (American, 1930-2009)

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