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Fort Morgan

Colorado, United States
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Fort Morgan, city, seat (1889) of Morgan county, northeastern Colorado, U.S., on a low plateau overlooking the South Platte River, 70 miles (113 km) northeast of Denver at an elevation of 4,240 feet (1,292 metres). The site, on the Overland Trail, was originally occupied by a fort (established in 1864 and named for an American Civil War colonel, Christopher A. Morgan). The fort was abandoned in 1868, but the adjacent settlement prospered and developed as...

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