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| History |
| Denver was founded in the Kansas Territory in
1858. On November 22 of that year, General William Larimer,
a land speculator from eastern Kansas, placed cottonwood logs
to stake a square-mile claim on the hill overlooking the confluence
of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, across the creek
from the existing mining settlement of Auraria. |
| The site was accessible to existing trails and
had previously been the site of seasonal encampments of the
Cheyenne and Arapaho. Larimer, along with associates in the
Denver City Land Company, sold parcels in the town to merchants
and miners, with the intention of creating a major city that
would cater to new emigrants. The name "Denver City"
was chosen to honor Kansas territorial governor James W. Denver,
in order to ensure that the city would become the county seat
of then Arapaho County, Kansas. Ironically, when Larimer named
it after Denver, he was unaware that James Denver had already
resigned as governor. |
| In the first few years, while the town grew, land
parcels were often traded freely for grubstakes and in the course
of gambling by miners in Auraria. The city was incorporated
on November 7, 1861, several months after the formation of the
Colorado Territory. Denver was the county seat of [[Arapahoe
County, Colorado|]] until the creation of Denver County in 1902. |
| Denver was selected to host the 1976 Winter Olympics
to coincide with Colorado's centennial anniversary, but Colorado
voters struck down ballot initiatives allocating public funds
to pay for the high costs of the games, so they were moved to
Innsbruck, Austria. The movement against hosting the games was
based largely on environmental issues and was led by then State
Senator Richard Lamm. Lamm was subsequently elected as Colorado
governor in 1974. |
| On April 20, 1999, the Columbine High School massacre
occurred at Columbine High School, which is located southwest
of Denver in an unincorporated area in suburban Jefferson County;
the school has a Littleton address. |
| The cheeseburger was allegedly invented in Denver
by Louis Ballast who operated the Humpty Dumpty Barrel drive-in.
He applied for a patent on his now famous invention in 1935.
It has been speculated that he wasn’t the first person
to add cheese to a hamburger, but nobody has an earlier patent,
and no evidence to debunk his claim has emerged. |
| Denver was an important place for the "beat
generation." Beat icon Neal Cassady was raised on Larimer
Street in Denver, and a portion of Jack Kerouac's beat masterpiece
On the Road takes place in the city. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg
lived for a time in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, Colorado,
and he helped found the Buddhist college, Naropa University
or the "Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa"
in nearby Boulder, Colorado. |
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