Crowley County, Colorado
Its original inhabitants decades earlier were Native Americans, more Cheyenne than other tribes at the time the western expansion of the U.S. arrived.The first significant development and settlement occurred in 1887 when the Missouri Pacific Railroad came through from the east, on its way to Pueblo and Colorado's rich gold fields of "Pikes Peak Or Bust".The county seat is in Ordway, a town established in 1890 that quickly became the economic hub of the area.Other towns still existing along the Missouri Pacific Railroad's route are Sugar City, Crowley, and Olney Springs.By the 1970s almost all the water rights were sold from what is now called the Twin Lakes Canal to the fast-growing cities of Colorado's Front Range corridor.No Democratic presidential nominee has won Crowley County since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide.
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