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Sand Creek (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

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Sand Creek (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Sand Creek (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

Sand Creek is a stream in El Paso County, Colorado, and a tributary of Fountain Creek. Banning Lewis Number 1 Dam, located approximately one mile south of Shirley, was built across the East Fork of Sand Creek to create Banning Lewis Reservoir Number 1.Sand Creek is not to be confused with Big Sandy Creek, location of the Sand Creek Massacre.

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Sand Creek (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
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N 38.78134 ° E -104.78043 °
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Fountain Creek Regional Trail

Fountain Creek Regional Trail
80902 Colorado Springs
Colorado, United States
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Evergreen Cemetery (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Evergreen Cemetery (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

Evergreen Cemetery is the city-maintained cemetery for Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Colorado. When Colorado Springs was founded in 1871 there were already two cemeteries serving El Paso County but both were quickly found to be inadequate in serving the needs of the rapidly growing city. In 1874, the founder of Colorado Springs, General William Jackson Palmer, founded a new cemetery two miles from town. The original names were the Mount Washington or Mountain Home Cemetery. In 1877, the name was changed to Evergreen Cemetery. In 1875, the original ten acres (4.0 ha) or so was deeded to the city of Colorado Springs and it has been a city owned and operated cemetery since then. In 1993 the cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The original ten acres has grown to over 220 acres (0.89 km2) with 90,000 plus burials in 2014 and the cemetery still performs about 700 burials per year. Evergreen Cemetery is the burial place of many of the people that built the city of Colorado Springs along with founders of many neighboring cities. It is also the burial place of many of the people that made millions from the last Colorado gold rush, world renowned artists, writers and composers, philanthropists, captains of industry and business, Union and Confederate soldiers, sports figures, politicians, actors, and even an astronaut.