Ames, Colorado

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States}}

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Ames is an unincorporated community in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

History

Ames is the site of the one of the world's first hydroelectric power plants to generate and transmit alternating current electricity for industrial purposes (mining), the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant.{{Cite web |url=http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/Researchers/ColoradoMagazine_v49n3_Summer1972.pdf |title=CHARLES C. BRITTON, An Early Electric Power Facility in Colorado, Colorado Magazine v49n3 Summer 1972, page 185 |access-date=2016-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160728160650/http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/Researchers/ColoradoMagazine_v49n3_Summer1972.pdf |archive-date=2016-07-28 |url-status=dead }} The Ames, Colorado, post office operated from December 20, 1880, until June 3, 1922. {{cite book|title=Colorado Post Offices 1859–1989|first1=William H.|last1=Bauer|first2=James L.|last2=Ozment|first3=John H.|last3=Willard|date=1990|publisher=Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation|location=Golden, Colorado|isbn=0-918654-42-4}}

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See also

{{portal|Geography|History|United States|Colorado|Electricity}}

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