Granby (Colorado)

Grand County

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Granby is a small town in Grand County of the U.S. state of Colorado. It was founded in 1904 and is located around 90 km north- west of Denver in the midst of the Rocky Mountains - between the Front Range and the Never Summer Mountains. The community was to Granby Hillyer, a product coming from Denver attorney named.

The city is divided by a main road ( U.S. Highway 40) and extending therefrom residential streets. Granby has in addition to a public library and several smaller restaurants with typical local cuisine. Surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and adjacent to the small town of Silver Creek and of the local hotel and conference facility, the Silver Creek Lodging, it offers a good starting point for the natural attractions of the county.

On June 4, 2004 Granby came through the Amokfahrt the resident Marvin John Heemeyer international headlines: With a selbstgepanzerten and armed bulldozers destroying 13 houses and caused a loss of over seven million dollars. Details and local police units tried in vain to stop the vehicle with roadblocks, tear gas, stun grenades, over 200 shots and three explosives. Finally, Governor Bill Owens had to alert the National Guard and seal off the place. Only when the vehicle broke into the basement of a building and was stuck, the offender directed himself, the police still needed to recover from the steel jacket still over 12 hours to him.

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