Chivington Drive, a street in Longmont, Colorado, which was named for Colonel John Chivington, and therefore became the center of controversy in the news and at Longmont City Council meetings
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Chivington, Colorado, a ghost town in Kiowa County, named for Colonel John Chivington
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John Chivington, a Colonel at the time of the U.S. Civil War who gained infamy for his attack on a peaceful settlement of Native Americans on the plains of Colorado, an attack which came to be known as the Sand Creek Massacre
Chivington was named for the Reverend/Colonel John Chivington, who was celebrated as the hero of the 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass and commanded the Volunteer Militia of the Colorado Territory that perpetrated the Sand Creek massacre, a slaughter of Native Americans in a nearby gulch during the American Civil War.