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    United States. The city population was 17,141 at the 2020 United States Census. Cañon City is the principal city of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical...
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    Fremont County comprises the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Pueblo-Cañon City, CO Combined Statistical Area...
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  • medium-security Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility.[citation needed] It is located within the city limits of Cañon City. Other prisons in the East Cañon Complex...
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    located west of Cañon City, Colorado. The canyon begins at the mouth of Grape Creek, about 2 mi (3.2 km) west of central Cañon City, and continues in...
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    11, 1889. The City of Cañon City is a principal city of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Pueblo-Cañon City, CO Combined Statistical...
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  • Canyon City, an American western from 1943 Man from Canyon City, a 1965 Spanish-Italian film In this context, Canon is pronounced as Cañon. Cañon City in...
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    The Royal Gorge Route Railroad is a heritage railroad based in Cañon City, Colorado. A 1950s-era train makes daily 2-hour excursion runs from the Santa...
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    The Abbey of the Holy Cross in Cañon City, Colorado, is a former monastery of the Order of St. Benedict in the United States. It existed for nearly 120...
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    Skyline Drive is a scenic roadway in Cañon City, Colorado. It was built by inmate labor in 1905. The road starts from U.S. Highway 50 and gradually inclines...
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  • Centennial Correctional Facility (category Prisons in Colorado)
    Facility (CCF) is a prison located in the East Canon complex in Fremont County, just east of Cañon City, Colorado. CCF consists of two separate buildings, North...
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    Creek is 3 miles (5 km) to the southwest. Colorado State Highway 115 runs northwest 9 miles (14 km) to Cañon City and northeast 6 miles (10 km) to Penrose...
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    Roy Best (prison warden) (category Colorado Democrats)
    Governor of Colorado. He is known for his wardenship of the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility, an infamous prison in Cañon City, Colorado, and for...
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    Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility (CTCF), colloquially known simply as "Territorial," is a medium security prison in Cañon City, Colorado. CTCF...
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  • The Cañon City Swastikas were a minor league baseball team based in Cañon City, Colorado, in 1912. Cañon City briefly played in the 1912 season as members...
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    Royal Gorge Bridge (category Buildings and structures in Cañon City, Colorado)
    The Royal Gorge Bridge is a tourist attraction near Cañon City, Colorado within Royal Gorge Bridge and Park, a 360-acre (150 ha) amusement park located...
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  • Cañon City Daily Record is a daily newspaper published in Cañon City, Colorado. It carries local, regional, national and world news. It is owned by Prairie...
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  • Dwain Weston (category Sports deaths in Colorado)
    killed while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado, United States. Weston, who was originally from Sydney, Australia...
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    Roy Melanson (category People convicted of murder by Colorado)
    life sentences, and died in May 2020 at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility, in Cañon City, Colorado. Hailing from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, Melanson...
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  • Kingdom Canon Row, a street in Westminster, London Cañon City, Colorado, United States Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada Canon Rock, an...
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    infamous Bone Wars of the late 19th century. Located 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Cañon City, the name originates from the area providing vegetables to the miners...
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    (2019). 2019 Colorado State Recreation Lands (PDF). Cañon City, CO: State of Colorado. p. 34. "Temple Canyon Park". Cañon City, Colorado. Retrieved 2020-01-17...
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  • Cañon City High School (CCHS) is a high school in Cañon City, Colorado, United States. The current campus was built in 1961 with major additions in the...
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  • Theodore Edward Coneys (category Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Colorado)
    life imprisonment at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City, Colorado. Theodore Coneys died on May 16, 1967, at the Colorado State Penitentiary prison...
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    James Hamilton Peabody (category People from Cañon City, Colorado)
    1917) was the 13th and 15th Governor of Colorado, and is noted by some for his public service in Cañon City and by others for his brutality in crushing...
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    Colorado, United States. The city population was 111,876 at the 2020 United States Census, making Pueblo the ninth most populous city in Colorado. Pueblo...
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  • Cañon City School District, also known as Cañon City Schools, is a school district in Cañon City, Colorado, United States. Cañon Exploratory School, created...
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  • newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts Cañon City Daily Record, a daily newspaper in Cañon City, Colorado Daily Record (Arkansas), published in Little...
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    Tunnel Drive Trail (category Cañon City, Colorado)
    The Tunnel Drive Trail is an out-and-back hiking trail located in Cañon City, Colorado. The trail parallels and overlooks the Arkansas River and the Royal...
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    seat. The City of Littleton is the seat of Arapahoe County, Colorado. The City of Cañon City is the seat of Fremont County, Colorado. The City of Boulder...
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    The First Presbyterian Church in Cañon City, Colorado, which has also been known as United Presbyterian Church, was completed in 1902 and was added to...
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