Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board, near Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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10 Facts About Mussoorie
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Dehradun and Mussoorie were evacuated by the Gorkhas by the year 1815 and were annexed to the district of Saharanpur by 1819.
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Mussoorie built a hunting lodge on the Camel's Back Road, and became a magistrate of Doon in 1823.
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Mussoorie raised the first Gurkha Regiment and planted the first potatoes in the valley.
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In 1832, Mussoorie was the intended terminus of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India that began at the southern tip of the country.
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Mussoorie has a fairly typical subtropical highland climate for the mid-altitude Himalaya.
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Newly developed Mussoorie Lake was built by City Board and Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority.
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Mall Road, with architectural evidence of a colonial past, is a shopping area at the centre of Mussoorie, and contains shops, cafes, video game establishments, skating rinks, a nearby Tibetan market place, and a Methodist church.
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St George's College, Mussoorie is amongst the oldest and most reputed schools in the country.
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