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	Auraria, Georgia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Auraria is a ghost town in Lumpkin County, Georgia, southwest of Dahlonega.
		The land east of Auraria was purchased by Vice President John Calhoun, and he established the Calhoun Mine there.
		Auraria, Kansas Territory (founded in 1858 by Georgia settlers in present-day Denver, Colorado) derived its name from this town.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Auraria%2C_Georgia (506 words)

	Gold Fever in Kansas Territory: Migration to the Pike's Peak Gold Fields, 1858-1860 by Calvin W. Gower, Spring, 1973
		This migration was a significant development in the history of Kansas territory, and probably is of some importance in helping to explain the moves to gold regions in general.
		Denver and Auraria in 1860 as sketched in
		Kansas people were also active in the organizing efforts of Presbyterians and Catholics in the mining area.
	www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1973/73_1_gower.htm (7290 words)

	Auraria, Denver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Auraria was a small mining settlement in the Kansas Territory in the United States.
		In April 1859 Auraria was the site of a small convention of settlers with the intention of creating a local government out of Arapaho County, the western portion of the Kansas Territory.
		The territory was never recognized by the U.S. government, and it ceased to exist even unofficially when the Colorado Territory was organized by the Act of Congress in 1861.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auraria,_Kansas_Territory (572 words)

	Territory Encyclopedia Article @ Reigned.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A territory (from the word 'terra', meaning 'land') is a defined area (including land and waters), usually considered to be a possession of an animal, person, organization, or institution.
		Territory (country subdivision), an area of land under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority.
		Territorial behaviour is defined as: the actions or reactions of a person or animal in response to external threats towards the space that is defended by that person or animal
	www.reigned.net /encyclopedia/Territory (449 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The territory was organized in the wake of the 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Rush, which had brought the first large concentration of white settlement to the region.
		The territory was organized out of lands in the Rockies on both sides of the continental divide and incorporating the area of the Pikes Peak gold rush that had begun two years previously.
		Originally, the lands that comprised the Colorado Territory were inhabited primarily by the Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Eastern Plains, and the Ute in the Rocky Mountains.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Colorado_Territory (1623 words)

	Auraria, Kansas Territory - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Auraria was a small mining settlement in the Kansas Territory in the United States.
		In April 1859 Auraria was the site of a small convention of settlers with the intention of creating a local government out of Arapaho County, the western portion of the Kansas Territory.
		The territory was never recognized by the U.S. government, and it ceased to exist even unofficially when the Colorado Territory was organized by the Act of Congress in 1861.
	www.music.us /education/A/Auraria,-Kansas-Territory.htm (511 words)

	The Pictures - Colorado Photos
		The territory was organized in the wake of the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush, which had brought the first large concentration of white settlement to the region.
		The territory was organized out of lands in the Rockies on both sides of the continental divide and incorporating the area of the Pikes Peak gold rush that had begun two years previously.
		Technically the territory was open to slavery under the Dred Scott of 1857, but the question was rendered moot by the impending American Civil War and the majority pro-Union sentiment in the territory.
	www.colorado-photos.net /pictorials.html (1490 words)

	Aids to Prospective Prospectors: Guidebooks and Letters From Kansas Territory, 1858-1860, by Calvin W. Gower, Summer ...
		Many residents of Kansas territory were cognizant that the gold region was within their territory and also were aware that a number of the prospectors would use eastern Kansas as a "jumping-off" point in their journey.
		Kansas territory, established in 1854, was in the national limelight during much of its existence, and a considerable number of books were published in the early territorial years concerning the political troubles there.
		However, the rush was definitely of significance to the people of Kansas since they were in the path of some of the emigrants to the gold fields and gained trade from these travelers, and since the gold region was in the far western portion of Kansas territory.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1977/77_1_gower.htm (3907 words)

	Grand Lodge of A.F. & A.M. of Colorado :: Web Site
		The weekly meetings at Auraria were interrupted in the spring of 1859 by news of the big gold strike at Gregory Diggings, forty miles northwest in the high mountains.
		In Feb., 1861, the "Territory of Colorado" was recognized by the national government.
		Auraria and Central City surrendered their dispensations from Kansas and Nebraska respectively to receive dispensations from Grand Master Chivington.
	www.coloradofreemasons.org /history/100th.aspx (4652 words)

	Colorado - MSN Encarta
		At the start of the gold rush most of the eastern section of Colorado was a part of the Kansas Territory.
		Johnson vetoed statehood, partly because the territory’s population was too small.
		Colorado became the 38th state to join the Union on August 1, 1876, and John L. Routt, the last territorial governor, was elected the first governor of the state of Colorado.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557361_11/Colorado.html (950 words)

	Colorado News
		First visited by Spanish explorers in the 1500s, the territory was claimed for Spain by Juan de Ulibarri in 1706.
		The resulting settlement was christened Denver City in honor of James W. Den ver, governor of Kansas Territory.
		However, it was not until 1876 - fifteen years after becoming a territory - that Colorado was admitted as the thirty-eighth state in the union.
	www.angelfire.com /rock3/airspirit/Colorado.html (1064 words)

	Hot Times, Cool Places: Kansas Vacation Fun Facts
		Kansas is first in quail and prairie chicken harvest.
		Kansas is also the first in wheat production, thus known as the Breadbasket of the World.
		Kansas has the largest population of wild grouse in North America.
	www.traveltriviatime.com /kansas.htm (154 words)

	ABBEE, or ABBIE, G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		McCERRAN, Robert, his death given in RMN as follows: “At Fountain City, Kansas Territory, Apr 9, 1859, Robert McCerran, formerly of New Orleans, from the effects of freezing and exposure.
		McCOY, Henry, was Secretary of the first convention to consider the forming of a new Territory, or a state government (which many supposed possible) on Apr 11, 1859, before the arrival of that chronicler, the RMN, with Mr.
		McGEE, J., was resident of Denver and Auraria 1859 and afterward.
	www.denver.lib.co.us /whg/gene/fiftyniners/Mc.html (5966 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver never saw his namesake city.
		Denver was founded in the Kansas Territory in 1858.
		On November 22, 1858, General William Larimer, a land speculator from eastern Kansas, placed cottonwood logs to stake a 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.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Denver,_Colorado (6329 words)

	Place:Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States - Genealogy
		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 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.
		By 1890, Denver had grown to be the fifth-largest city west of the Mississippi River, and surpassed Omaha in population by the turn of the 20th century.
	www.werelate.org /wiki/Place:Denver_(city),_Colorado (1058 words)

	THE AURARIA RELOCATION COLLECTION
		Name Auraria Relocation Title Collection, 1969 Extant 1 box, 11 folders (.25 linear feet) Historical note Auraria in 1969 was declared as urban renewal area by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
		The Auraria Relocation Records were donated in March 1994 to Auraria Library Archives and Special Collections from a Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD) alumnus through the office of Yvonne Flood, Administrative Assistant to the MSCD president.
		Larimer had named his town after General James Denver, the former governor of the Kansas Territory, of which his new town was a part.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /public/library/archives/auraria/main.html (852 words)

	The History of the City 1900 to Present
		Jefferson Territory is organized without sanction of Congress to govern gold camps; officers are elected.
		The population of the Colorado Territory is 25,371.
		Territorial Legislature appropriates $15,00 for University of Colorado at Boulder, on condition that equal sum is raised by that city
	members.tripod.com /~Sanguis_Priscus/pastpt1.html (3286 words)

	Fortieth Facts and Features
		Auraria received its name when a small group of gold miners left the town of Auraria, Ga. (now a ghost town) for the Kansas Territory and what is now Denver, looking for prosperity and gold.
		Many citizens of Auraria left within a year or two of the town’s development to fight for the Confederacy in the Civil War.
		Although Denver was aching for a center of higher education, the plan to develop Auraria as the site for the campus would force several hundred families and businesses to relocate, and was met with much opposition.
	www.mscd.edu /~collcom/artman/publish/fortieth_twv3041806.shtml (306 words)

	History of Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, Colorado
		The previous year, Denver City and Auraria voted to unite and keep the name "Denver City." Soon, streets, homes and schools were built; with the construction came stability.
		Much of the Auraria side of the creek was washed away, including the carpenter’s shop that had been the home of First Methodist Episcopal Church.
		While the sun shone bright at the corner of 14th and Lawrence, the territory’s smaller suburban churches struggled as a result of this strength.
	www.zmoon.com /trinity/history.html (3567 words)

	Colorado State Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Charles (renamed Denver City), and its rival, Auraria, were settled on the east and west sides of Cherry Creek (now lower downtown Denver) in 1858.
		Arapahoe City and Golden Gate were established to the west of St. Charles and Auraria in the closing days of 1858, while to the south, at the mouth of Fountain Creek, the town of Fountain City (later to be named Pueblo) was laid out.
		In 1859 a provisional territorial government was formed, called the Territory of Jefferson.
	www.real-estate-co.com /co-profile.htm (488 words)

	Things To Do In Denver When You're Undead, Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The town of Auraria, founded by members of the Russell party and others from Lawrence, Kansas, was created in November of '58 on the southwestern side of Cherry Creek.
		Auraria, hurting badly from lack of business and population, finally merged with Denver City on April 6, 1860, creating the combined city of Denver.
		Although the area had basically been Union territory from the start, the current stalemate in the war was enough to allow Confederate troops into Colorado, which the Union countered with its own small detachement.
	www.thebrightway.org /denver1.html (4802 words)

	ABBEE, or ABBIE, G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BARCK, Dr. ---, of Kansas Territory, arrives in wagon 10, of E. Doty’s Lightning train of ten wagons, May 22, 1859, accompanied by D. Farwell.
		Melissa Bennett Nuchols, wife of Emmet Nuchols, was daughter of Isaiah H. Bennett (and born Bellevue, Nebraska, first white child born in Nebraska Territory) and was niece of H. Bennett of Denver, who educated her at Georgetown when he was in Congress.
		BOWEN, L. was acting secretary of the Territory of Jefferson, 1859.
	www.denver.lib.co.us /whg/gene/fiftyniners/B.html (9553 words)

	SAA 2000 Annual Conference 2000 Host Committee Greeting
		Denver City and Auraria, with a population just under 4,800 in 1860, served as a supply hub for the mountain mining camps.
		Feeling ignored by the governments of the Kansas and Nebraska Territories, Denver residents formed the Jefferson Territory, which went unrecognized by the U.S. Congress.
		As a result of the raid, in 1865, John Evans was removed as Territorial Governor, and Colorado statehood was delayed for over a decade.
	www.srmarchivists.org /archives/saa2000/greeting.htm (2044 words)

	[No title]
		These towns were incorporated in 1859 and 1860 and were then within the limits of Kansas Territory.
		Kansas Falls, [Riley] Geary co. Incorporated 1858 by F.N. Blake, E.P. Burgess, and John Harvie.
		Leander, Johnson co. Incorporated 1855; at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/shawnee/library/KSHSvol12/extinct1.txt (12378 words)

	Nevada Lodge # 4 A.F. & A.M. - Nevadaville, Colorado. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Thus the first meeting of Masonic Brethren, in Nevada City, Kansas Territory, is believed to have been held at Ira H. Morton’s cabin, in the latter part of 1859.
		Nevada Lodge holding that the Grand Master of Nebraska, in instituting Lodges in Colorado Territory was an infringement on the Grand Lodge of Kansas refused (upon invitation) to join in the convention for organizing a Grand Lodge.
		A special communication of Nevada Lodge No. 36, A.F.and A.M., by virtue of a charter from the state of Kansas, was held at the Masonic Hall in Central City the 16th day of Nov. 1861.(Charter received on the 15th) The Lodge opened on the3rd degree of Masonry for the purpose of installing Officers.
	www.nevadalodge4.org /history/history.php (10809 words)

	The LoDo District - Virtual Tour of LoDo
		Gold seekers from Lawrence, Kansas staked the first claim in September 1858, under the name St. Charles Town Association, but they left only one man to protect their claim.
		General William Larimer named the town in honor of the Kansas Territory Governor, James William Denver, to ensure the success of this new claim.
		There were only 25 cabins in Denver during that first winter of 1858, and less than 50 in the neighboring town of Auraria.
	www.lodo.org /walking_tour/denvercity1401blakehtm.htm (260 words)

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