The out-of-pocket value of this donation was about $12.50, but for Mr. Brown’s ten-acre-land donation, located less than a mile from the center of the frontier town. In January 1868, Hunt’s Capitol Commission accepted Henry C. Territorial Governor Alexander Hunt sent out a call for a land donation and received several offers. Moving territorial meetings and carting wagon loads of official property (tables, benches, and gunny sacks of archives) from location to location eventually grew tiresome, so in December 1867 the Seventh Territorial Assembly passed an act making Denver the capital city. Since the Assembly also, at times, met in Denver instead of Golden, Colorado’s seat of government actually alternated between Denver and Golden between 18. There, the Assembly promptly named Golden City as the territorial capital. The lack of accommodations and provisions for the twenty-two members of the Assembly caused them to adjourn and reconvene in Denver City. In 1862, the first and last territorial meeting was held in Colorado City. That autumn, the First Territorial Assembly selected Colorado City, a spot on the open prairie near Pikes Peak and close to the center of the new territory, as the territorial capitol. Febru– The Colorado Territory is carved out from portions of what was previously the Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Utah Territories.
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