Denver,
the capital of Colorado,
was established by a
party of prospectors
on November 22, 1858,
after a gold discovery
at the confluence of
Cherry Creek and the
South Platte River.
Town founders named
the dusty crossroads
for James W. Denver,
Governor of Kansas Territory,
of which eastern Colorado
was then a part. Other
gold discoveries sparked
a mass migration of
some 100,000 in 1859-60,
leading the federal
government to establish
Colorado Territory in
1861.
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