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Brighton, city, seat (1902) of Adams county (and lying partially within Weld county), north-central Colorado, U.S., on the South Platte River. Originally a rest stop on a fur-trading trail between Fort Bent and Fort Laramie, Wyoming, the town developed (in the late 1860s) at the junction of the Denver Pacific and the Denver, Marshall and Boulder railways as Hughes Station, named for Bela M. Hughes, a railroad promoter. In 1881 the town was platted by D.F. Carmichael, an engineer, and named by his wife after her birthplace, Brighton Beach, New York. Brighton became the site of a vegetable-canning factory and ...(100 of 163 words)

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