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4 unusual facts about Grand Junction


Colorado National Monument

Colorado National Monument (locally referred to as The Monument) is a part of the National Park Service near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado.

Grand Junction, Tennessee

Grand Junction has one elementary school: Grand Junction Elementary School, and also a Head Start Program.

Nick Stavinoha

He is one of the few players in college baseball to participate in both the JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado (twice) and also at the NCAA D1 World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.

Tracks to Telluride

The game is played on a map of southwestern Colorado between the cities of Denver, Grand Junction, Dolores and Trinidad.


7th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry

The 7th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Jackson, Grand Junction, and Trenton, Tennessee and mustered in August 28, 1862 for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel Isaac Roberts Hawkins.

Michelle Tuzee

Tuzee's first job in television news was at KJCT in Grand Junction, Colorado where she was a general assignment reporter and later a producer and anchor.

Operation Plowshare

The final PNE blast took place on 17 May 1973, under Fawn Creek, 76.4 km north of Grand Junction, Colorado.

Rocky Mountain PBS

In response to requests from viewers on the Western Slope, KRMA applied for and won a construction permit for channel 18 in Grand Junction in August 1995.

U.S. Route 46

In 1925, the US 46 designation was first proposed for a route in Colorado connecting Limon to Grand Junction, but it instead became U.S. Highway 40S.

Vance Johnson

Johnson owned his own real estate company in Grand Junction, Colorado, and is now the owner of Vance's Epicurious in Grand Junction and VJ's Outlaw Ribs in Parachute, Colorado, where he lived with his son, Scott.


see also

Grand Junction High School

Grand Junction High School's choir department has been the recipient of a composition by Eric Barnum, entitled 'Wrapped'.

Hope Valley, South Australia

Just up the road from The Bremen hotel, on the northern side of Grand Junction Road is Torrens Valley Christian School, a local private non-denominational Christian school.

KGJT

KGJT-CD, a low-power television station (channel 27) licensed to Grand Junction, Colorado, United States

KMOZ

KKVT, a radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to Grand Junction, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KMOZ-FM from 2001 to 2013

Midnight Ridazz

Josh Anderson, founder of "Bike Gang" in Grand Junction, Colorado, cites an Alternative Press article about Midnight Ridazz as his inspiration for organizing the group/ride.

Newton Road railway station

caption = from The Book of the Grand Junction Railway, Thomas Roscoe

Port Adelaide Racing Club

The first meeting of the club was held in the same year on a course located on Grand Junction Road and in 1895 transferred to a leased site at Cheltenham Park.

River Weaver

Dutton railway viaduct, which was built by Joseph Locke and George Stephenson for the Grand Junction Railway, is grade II* listed, and a civic celebration was held on its completion, as there had been no deaths and no serious injuries to the workers during its construction.

Tina Kover

Her published works include the Modern Library translation of Georges by Alexandre Dumas père, The Black City by George Sand for Carroll & Graf Publishers, and Cosmos Incorporated and Grand Junction by Maurice G. Dantec for Del Rey Books.