Editing Simla, Colorado (section)

==History==
Simla was founded in 1909 by a man with the name of Altman. Simla was named because the daughter of a railroad official was reading a book about [[India]] when she came across the name, [[Shimla|Simla]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.usacitiesonline.com/cocountysimla.htm | title=Simla Colorado Profile and Resource Guide. Simla, Colorado Facts and Information }}</ref> Settled in the 1880s, Simla was incorporated in 1912. The first newspaper was started in 1911. It was a center for the shipping of the area's potato harvest each year.{{Citation needed|date=September 2012}}

Simla received national attention when it became the place where the first so-called "English Variant" of SARS-COV-2 (Covid-19 virus) was diagnosed in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Philipps|first=Dave|date=December 31, 2020|title=The Small Colorado Town Felt Insulated From the Pandemic. Then Came the Coronavirus Variant.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/simla-colorado-coronavirus-variant.html|access-date=November 2, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>