• Dr. Bob
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        24 days ago

        The creek is 3 feet wide in places and can dry up during dry seasons. The “lake” is 3 feet deep. The city was founded there because the governor owned land on the bald prairie, not the river valley where the fort and city already existed. Water is piped in from a lake several miles away.

    • palordrolap
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      14 days ago

      That would appear to have been founded after the invention of water bottles.