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- Denver
boasts an average of 300 days of sunshine a
year, more annual hours of sun than San Diego
or Miami Beach!
- The Colorado State Capitol
is modeled after the U.S. Capitol featuring
a gold-plated dome and a panoramic view of Denver
and the Rockies.
- The tallest building in Colorado
is the Republic Plaza at 57 stories high, in
Denver.
- The LoDo region of Denver
stands for Lower Downtown.
- Denver, lays claim to the
invention of the cheeseburger. The trademark
for the name Cheeseburger was awarded in 1935
to Louis Ballast.
- The 13th step of the state
capital building in Denver is exactly 1 mile
high above sea level.
- Colfax Avenue in Denver is
the longest continuous street in America.
The United States federal government owns more
than 1/3 of the land in Colorado.
- In Fruita, the town folk
celebrate 'Mike
the Headless Chicken Day'. Seems that a
farmer named L.A. Olsen cut off Mike's head
on September 10, 1945 in anticipation of a chicken
dinner - and Mike lived for another 4 years
without a head.
- Katherine Lee Bates wrote
"America the Beautiful" after being
inspired by the view from Pikes Peak.
- Hundreds of thousands of
valentines are re-mailed each year from Loveland.
- Colorado is the only state
in history, to turn down the Olympics. In 1976,
62% of all state Voters chose at almost the
last minute not to host the Olympics, because
of the cost, pollution and population boom it
would have on the State Of Colorado, and the
City of Denver.
- John Henry "Doc"
Holliday's brief and tumultuous existence led
him to Glenwood Springs where he succumbed to
tuberculosis and died at the Hotel Glenwood
on November 8, 1887.
- Rocky
Ford has been dubbed the "melon capital
of the world."
- The Dwight Eisenhower Memorial
Tunnel between Clear Creek & Summit counties
is the highest auto tunnel in the world. Bored
at an elevation of 11,000 feet under the Continental
Divide it is 8,960 feet long and the average
daily traffic exceeds 26,000 vehicles.
- Pueblo
is the only city in America with four living
recipients of the Medal of Honor.
- The World's First Rodeo was
held on July 4th, 1869 in Deer Trail.
- Leadville is the highest
incorporated city in the United States at 10,430
feet elevation. Because there was lots of "silver"
named towns at the time, the founding fathers
suggested Leadville.
- The Kit Carson County Carousel
in Burlington dates back to 1905, making it
the oldest wooden merry-go-round in the United
States. It is the only wooden carousel in America
still with its original paint.
- The Durango and Silverton
Narrow Gauge Railroad has been in continuous
operation since 1881 and has appeared in more
than a dozen movies including How the West Was
Won (1963) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid (1969).
- The highest suspension bridge
in the world is over the Royal
Gorge near Canon City. The Royal Gorge Bridge
spans the Arkansas River at a height of 1,053
feet.
- Built in 1867 by Seth Lake,
the Astor House in Golden
was the first stone hotel built west of the
Mississippi River.
- Colorado's first and
oldest military post, Fort
Garland was established in 1858 and commanded
by the legendary frontiersman Kit Carson.
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