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Eldora is the name of several places in the United States * Eldora, Colorado ** Eldora Mountain Resort* ''Eldora'' (ship, 1937), see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed * ''Eldora'' (ship, 1904), a windjammer, see Placilla (ship) * Eldora, Florida * Eldora, Iowa Eldora is a city and the county seat of Hardin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,663 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the county seat of Hardin County. History Eldora was platted in 1853. It was i ... * Eldora, New Jersey * Eldora, Pennsylvania * Eldora Speedway, auto racing track near New Weston, Ohio ;(Ships) {{disambig ...
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Eldora, Colorado
Eldora (pronounced el-DOH-ruh), previously known as "Eldorado" then "El-Dora", then Eldora or Camp Eldorado, and still called Happy Valley,Bauer, Carolyn (1987). ''Colorado Ghost Towns: Remnants of Colorado's Mining Days''. American Traveler Press. Page 19. . is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community and a Census-designated place, census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Boulder County, Colorado, Boulder County, Colorado, United States.Dziezynski, James (2012). ''Best Summit Hikes in Colorado: An Opinionated Guide to 50+ Ascents of Classic and Little-Known Peaks from 8,144 to 14,433 feet''. Wilderness Press. Page 68. . The CDP is a part of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Eldora CDP was 140 at the United States Census 2020. The Nederland, Colorado, Nederland post office (Zip Code 80466) serves the area. Eldora is located within the Roosevelt National Forest, and is primarily an alpine, densely forested, and densely but ...
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Eldora Mountain Resort
Eldora Mountain Resort is a ski area in the western United States, located in the southwest corner of Boulder County, Colorado, near the unincorporated community of Eldora and west of Nederland. Location One of a few Colorado ski resorts on the east side of the continental divide, Eldora is west of Boulder and about from downtown Denver. A bus (Route NB), operated by RTD, runs between Boulder and the ski area seven times daily during ski season and serves as easy transportation from town to mountain. Founded in 1962, Eldora has proven popular partly due to skiers not having to use the extremely busy Interstate 70 to reach the resort. The summit is at above sea level on Bryan Mountain, with a lift-served vertical drop of . The slopes face primarily north and east, and the main base area is at . The resort caters mostly to day skiers and snowboarders, although some overnight accommodations are available in Nederland, and many hotel rooms are available in Boulder. ...
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Eldora (ship, 1937)
Eldora is the name of several places in the United States * Eldora, Colorado ** Eldora Mountain Resort* ''Eldora'' (ship, 1937), see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed * ''Eldora'' (ship, 1904), a windjammer, see Placilla (ship) * Eldora, Florida * Eldora, Iowa * Eldora, New Jersey * Eldora, Pennsylvania * Eldora Speedway Eldora Speedway (nicknamed "the Big E", "Auto Racing's Showcase Since 1954," and "the World's Greatest Dirt Track") is a high-banked Dirt track racing, clay dirt oval. Located north of Rossburg, Ohio in the village of New Weston, Ohio, its websit ...
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Boats Of The Mackenzie River Watershed
The Mackenzie River in Canada's Northwest Territories is a historic waterway, used for centuries by Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples, specifically the Dene, as a travel and hunting corridor. Also known as the Deh Cho, it is part of a larger watershed that includes the Slave River, Slave, Athabasca River, Athabasca, and Peace River, Peace rivers extending from northern Alberta. In the 1780s, Peter Pond, a trader with the North West Company became the first known European to visit this watershed and begin viable trade with the Athabaskan languages, Athapascan-speaking Dene of these rivers. The Mackenzie River itself, the great waterway extending to the Arctic Ocean, was first put on European maps by Alexander Mackenzie (explorer), Alexander Mackenzie in 1789, the Scottish trader who explored the river. The watershed thus became a vital part of the North American fur trade, and before the advent of the airplane or road networks, the river was the only communication lin ...
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Eldora (ship, 1904)
Eldora is the name of several places in the United States * Eldora, Colorado ** Eldora Mountain Resort* ''Eldora'' (ship, 1937), see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed * ''Eldora'' (ship, 1904), a windjammer, see Placilla (ship) * Eldora, Florida * Eldora, Iowa * Eldora, New Jersey * Eldora, Pennsylvania * Eldora Speedway Eldora Speedway (nicknamed "the Big E", "Auto Racing's Showcase Since 1954," and "the World's Greatest Dirt Track") is a high-banked Dirt track racing, clay dirt oval. Located north of Rossburg, Ohio in the village of New Weston, Ohio, its websit ...
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Placilla (ship)
''Placilla'' was a four-masted barque which was built for F. Laeisz, Hamburg, Germany in 1892. She was sold in 1901 and renamed ''Optima'' in 1903. In 1905 she was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands. Description ''Placilla'' was built by Joh. C. Tecklenborg in Geestemünde, Germany. She was long overall, with a beam of and a depth of . She had four masts and was rigged as a barque, with Royal (sail), royal sails over double topsail, top and topgallant sails. Her air draught was . Her sail area was .'' Placilla'' was a sister ship to Pisagua (ship), ''Pisagua'', which was launched seven months later than she was. History ''Placilla'' entered service with F Laeisz, Hamburg in 1892. She was used on the route between Germany and Chile. In 1892, ''Placilla'' made the voyage from Lizard Point, Cornwall, Lizard Point to Valparaiso, Chile in 58 days. This was a record time. It was equalled by Potosi (ship), Potosi (1900), Pitlochry (ship), ''Pitlochry'' (1902), Preußen (ship), ''Preuße ...
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Eldora, Florida
Eldora is an uninhabited place in Volusia County, Florida, United States. It is located within Canaveral National Seashore, south of Bethune Beach and west of County Road A1A. The average elevation is 3 feet above sea level. History Eldora was a community of orange groves in the latter part of the 19th century. After the Great Freeze in the winter of 1894–95 destroyed most of its crops, it was nearly completely abandoned and has never regained its population. After the death of its last resident, Doris "Doc" Leeper in 2000, a locally famous artist and conservationist in the 1980s, the management of the town was officially turned over to the federal government, and the town is now located more than two miles within the borders of the Canaveral National Seashore. The town claims no permanent residents, and visitation is limited and subject to park hours. Only two of its original buildings remain. The largest, " The Eldora House", now holds a museum. Although the town's orang ...
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Eldora, Iowa
Eldora is a city and the county seat of Hardin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,663 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the county seat of Hardin County. History Eldora was platted in 1853. It was incorporated on July 1, 1895. The name Eldora was given to the town by a local mother in honor of her dead infant daughter. It is derived from the Spanish name for "the gilded". Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Eldora is located on east edge of the Altmont Moraine, the glacial moraine that marks the east border of the Geography of Iowa#Des Moines lobe, Des Moines Lobe of the Wisconsin Glaciation. The town is just west of the gorge of the Iowa River that borders the moraine. The river here has cut through the sandstone bedrock underlying the moraine. Climate Designated as having a humid continental climate, this region typically has a large seasonal temperature differences, ...
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