Trinidad is situated in the Purgatoire River valley in far southern Colorado at an elevation of 6,025 feet (1,836 m). The city lies 13 miles north of the New Mexico border. On the northern end of the town is Simpson's Rest, a prominent bluff named for early resident George Simpson, who is buried atop.
The Virginia House of Burgesses /ËbÉËrdÊÉsÉªz/ was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
After 1 â¦ 625, the House of  Burgesses managed the affairs of the colony without the Governor.  Although not entirely democratic it contributed to the development  of representative government in colonial America. When it was  temporarily dissolved in 1774, its members met in the first  revolutionary convention in Virginia. There they elected delegates  to the First Continental Congress. Some members of the House became  leaders of the Revolutionary War.