Colorado Springs dedicates new monument at site of city's founding
A newly dedicated monument in Colorado Springs marks the location on which the city was founded in 1871.
Source: cpr.org
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New memorial commemorates Colorado Springs' founding, past and future achievements
On the last day of July in 1871, under the shadow of Pikes Peak, Gen. Robert Cameron and other colleagues of Gen. William Jackson Palmer drove a stake into the ground of sprawling, treeless prairie and officially established the city that would a year later become known permanently as Colorado Springs. One-hundred-fifty-two years later, a new solid granite memorial weighing about 1,250 pounds and standing 5 feet tall and 32 inches wide marks the spot.
Source: gazette.com
United plane crash, nursing home fire were El Paso County's 24 hours of hell: March 3, 1991 remembered
An investigator with United Airlines takes pictures of the largest remaining piece of United Flight 585 on March 4, 1991, a day after the 737 aircraft crashed on a landing approach to the Colorado Springs airport killing everyone on board. Photo by GAZETTE FILE
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