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Canon City

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Canon City

City in south-central Colorado, USA, on the Arkansas River at the east end of the Royal Gorge, 55 km/34 mi northwest of Pueblo; seat of Fremont County; population (2000) 15,400. Its economy is largely based on livestock, agriculture, mining (oil, coal, marble, and other stone), and tourism.

Settled in 1859, it was an early distributing centre for local gold mines. The railroad arrived in 1874 and Canon City became a shipping hub for agricultural products, livestock, and minerals, and, later, made bricks, concrete, tools, conveyors, and ore concentrates.

The state penitentiary is on its outskirts, and the Colorado Territorial Prison Museum and Park is in the city.



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What if Canon City, Colorado, were to be destroyed by some natural catastrophe; would the federal relief, which would surely follow, be justified as general welfare for the entire United States?
General welfare by Carey, Ken / The New American
By the 1890s, Canon City had grown from its original days of lawlessness to become one of the most agriculturally advanced areas in the country--only to see it end by the late 1940s.
Canon City, Colorado by Small Press Bookwatch
For years a uranium mill near Canon City produced highly radioactive uranium ore; its unlined storage basins became a Superfund site in 1984.
Double jeopardy? (Environmental Justice) by Taylor, David A. / Environmental Health Perspectives
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