Hell or High Water: Floods of Douglas County's First 140 Years
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July 26, 1885
| Local rains over the drainage of Cherry Creek in Douglas County caused “white capped waves [which] surged down in their mighty anger, threatening to engulf everything in their way, carrying on their surface huge timbers and debris from ill-fated bridges and buildings” in the area of the Larimer Street Bridge in Denver. (Rocky Mountain News, July 27, 1885) |