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Exploring the history of beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado and the surrounding area. Have a history item to share? Shoot us a @reply :)
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I got a length of 4263.8 in slither.io! Can you beat that? #slitherio
I like to think that my husband is more impressed withe when I do cook due to the rarity of the occurrence :)
"I'm the best person in the world" - me after I cook anything at all
All of the “Beulah red” marble in the world went into the Capitol. It cannot be replaced, at any price.
Cutting, polishing, and installing the marble in the Capitol took six years, from 1894 to 1900.
“Beulah red” is the name of the red marble that gives the Colorado State Capitol its distinctive splendor.
Colorado … has the largest number (11) of Nationally Designated Scenic Byways of any state in the U.S. #COS
According to Wunderground data, this year COS snowfall for February 2015 was 16.6 inches.
New snow for February ranges from over 6.1 inches in heavy snowfall years to under 1.2 inches in light years in COS
The television show “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” was set in Colorado Springs, although it was filmed in California. #COS
The 1978 Robbie Benson/Lynn-Holly Johnson tour-de-force “Ice Castles” was filmed at the Broadmoor World Arena.
Pikes Peak is the second-most visited mountain in the world, behind Mount Fuji.#COS
Due to Gold discovered in the area by 1904 Colorado Springs had 1/3 of the nations millionaires earning it the nickname City of Millionaires
Cave of the Winds, located just west of town, is said to be 500 million years old. #COS
Travel site TripAdvisor ranks Garden of the Gods #1 in the country, ahead of New York's Central Park (#2) and Chicago's Millennium Park(#3)
The USAFA Chapel has areas for Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhists & an outdoor stone circle for wiccans, druids & other earth religions
A popular COS myth is that we get 300 days of sun a year. It was made up by a publicist for a railroad company, to lure travelers out west
"Old Colorado City" (previously "Colorado City") was incorporated into the city of Colorado Springs in 1917. #COS
COS was once the national HQ for 81 different religious groups, earning the city nicknames "the Evangelical Vatican" & "The Christian Mecca"
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