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Denver (prononcé en anglais / ˈ d ɛ n. v ɚ/) est la capitale et la ville la plus peuplée de l'État du Colorado, aux États-Unis.
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Denver (prononcé [ˈdɛnvɚ]) est la capitale de l'État...
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Denver (/ ˈ d ɛ n v ər / DEN-vər) is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital.
Denver (prononcé [ˈdɛnvɚ]) est la capitale de l'État américain du Colorado, ainsi que sa ville la plus peuplée. Située dans le centre-ouest des États-Unis , dans la vallée de la rivière South Platte sur le flanc ouest des Grandes Plaines , la ville se trouve à moins d'une trentaine de kilomètres à l'est du Front Range ...
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By the early twenty-first century Denver had become the hub of a swath of communities, from Fort Collins on the north to Pueblo on the south—a Front Range megalopolis. On the ranches of Wyoming, in the small towns of Colorado, in the western counties of Kansas and Nebraska and South Dakota, the Denver metropolitan area stood out as a place of oppor...
Pike's Peak Gold Rush and first settlements
The Denver area, part of the Territory of Kansas, was sparsely settled until the late 1850s. Occasional parties of prospectors came looking for gold, then moved on. In July 1858, Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek (in the present-day suburb of Englewood) that yielded about 20 troy ounces (620 g) of gold, the first significant gold discovery in the Rocky Mountain region. News spread rapidly and by autumn, hundreds of men were working alo...
Larimer Party
In November 1858, General William Larimer and Captain Jonathan Cox, Esquire, two of the land speculators from eastern Kansas Territory that had met with the Territorial Governor James W. Denver (who honorarily gave them appointments such as commissioner, judge and sheriff) unpacked their wagons and divided up the supplies. Larimer looked over the Auraria landscape and was not satisfied with the first area chosen. He moved to a new area where he set up a campfire and four cottonwood poles cros...
The new territory of Colorado
Denver, Auraria and the land west to the Continental Divide were part of Arapahoe County which encompassed the entire western portion of the Kansas Territory. At the creation of Arapahoe County in 1855 it was occupied primarily by Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians with only a few white settlers, and thus the county was never organized. With no county government and the leaders of the Kansas Territory preoccupied with the violent events of Bleeding Kansas, little time or attention was given to thos...
The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era brought an Efficiency Movement typified in 1902 when the city and Denver County were made coextensive. In 1904 Robert W. Speer was elected mayor and initiated several projects that added new landmarks, updated existing facilities, or improved the city's landscape including the City Auditorium, the Civic Center and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. City leaders went to Washington D.C. and after assuring the politicians there that Denver was no longer a frontier town,...
The Great Depression
When World War I ended, the economy continued to be strong for a short period. However, with less demand for goods, prices dropped and 1918 saw a short recession, followed by a more severe one between 1920 and 1921. The mining industry was hard hit by decreasing prices and increasing foreign competition during the post-war recession years. Coal mining in Coloradowas particularly affected as alternative sources of fuel were widely adopted and labor strikes hurt production. In 1928 Denver was o...
World War II and after
Until World War II, Denver's economy was dependent mainly on the processing and shipping of minerals and ranch products, especially beef and lamb. Like the rest of the nation most Denverites were isolationists, but after the bombing of Pearl Harbor Denver joined the rest of the nation in the war effort. Denver's leaders continued their efforts to bring businesses to the city during the war and in the years following, specialized industries were introduced into the city, making it a major manu...
With Denver experiencing so much growth, the large scale transportation projects undertaken by the Regional Transportation District under the leadership of Clarence Marsella, needed to be successful. Fortunately, T-REX was completed in November 2006, 22 months ahead of schedule. The success of T-REX led to public support for the FasTracksexpansion ...
Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Denver, various datesDenver est la capitale et la ville la plus peuplée de l'État du Colorado, aux États-Unis.
Il y a 2 jours · Denver, city and county, capital of Colorado, U.S., at the western edge of the Great Plains, just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The city and county were consolidated as a single administrative unit in 1902. Denver lies at the junction of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River.
Denver is the capital of the western U.S. state of Colorado and the dominate city of the Rocky Mountain Region. Founded in 1858 as the placer gold mining camp known as the Cherry Creek Diggings, the "Mile-High City" is today the most populous city within a 560-mile (900 km) radius and the center of the Front Range Urban Corridor of more than ...
