Tag: 150
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No rain on this parade: Colorado Springs celebrates 150th birthday with floats, flyovers, festival
Despite fears that overcast skies would rain on everyone’s parade, the sesquicentennial ‘Parade Through Time’ proceeded unfettered through downtown Colorado Springs, kicking off a daylong birthday party for the city’s 150th. But even if rain had squalled the celebration, the message of the day would have remained the same. “We’re doing two things: number one,…
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NEWS | Colorado Springs celebrates 150th anniversary
A brief history of the city of Colorado Springs, founded in 1871 by General William Jackson Palmer.





