Genealogy Projects tagged with Arapahoe County on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Centennial, Colorado

    Covering approximately 75 acres in Centennial, Colorado, the park-like Olinger Cemetery - Chapel Hill is a picturesque final resting place. Located at the highest point in Arapahoe County, the cemetery offers panoramic views of the Front Range in Rocky Mountain National Park. Special landscaping feature at Olinger Chapel Hill Mortuary & Cemetery . Olinger Cemetery - Chapel Hill is the permanen...

  • Arapahoe County, Colorado

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Arapahoe County, Colorado. Official Website History On August 25, 1855, the Kansas Territorial Legislature created a huge Arapahoe County to govern the entire western portion of the Territory of Kansas. The county was named for the Arapaho Nation who lived in the region. In July 1858, gold was discovered along the South Platte Ri...

  • Aurora, Colorado

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Aurora, Colorado. Official Website History Aurora originated in the 1880s, as the town of Fletcher, taking its name from Denver businessman Donald Fletcher who saw it as a real estate opportunity. He and his partners staked out four square miles east of Denver, but the town - and Colorado - struggled mightily after the Silver Cras...

  • 2012 Aurora, Colorado Movie Theater victims

    On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado , United States , during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises . Dressed in tactical clothing, James Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were killed and 70 others were injured, 58 of them from gunfire. It was the deadlies...