# Palmer Divide Research: every place page > A shared, working map of the history of the Palmer Divide, Colorado. Compiled by Michael Christensen; updated 2026-10-06; CC BY 4.0. Source numbers refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. # Abbe Ranch House - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/abbe-ranch-house/ - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2191, -104.9303 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know A Douglas County landmark nomination (2003). The binder's chain of title runs from Walter P. Miller's 1875 patent; the Abbes' house dates from the late 1930s (helper's digest of Larkspur Historical Society binder 9 pp. 122, 168-199; not yet). ## Where it was Part of the SW1/4 SE1/4 of Sec. 31, T9S R67W, 9998 S. Perry Park Road (Douglas County Register of Landmark Properties nomination, file MI03-002, received Jan. 24, 2003; Perry Park binder LHS_9 p. 113). Center of that quarter-quarter; good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/): 1.8 mi northwest - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 2.0 mi east - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 2.1 mi southeast - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 2.4 mi east - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 2.4 mi east - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 2.4 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Acequia - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/acequia/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.5236, -105.028 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Acequia, 1874–1900 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO Jan. 30, 1874; platted June 28, 1881. North edge. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 182621 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Louviers](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/louviers/): 3.4 mi south - [Sedalia](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sedalia/): 7.0 mi southeast - [Oakland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/): 11.3 mi south - [St. Philip-in-the-Field](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-philip-in-the-field/): 11.3 mi south - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 13.0 mi southeast - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 13.2 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Agate - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/ - Also known as: Gebhard - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.4617, -103.9422 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Gebhard, 1881–1882; Agate, 1881 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Kansas Pacific station 67 miles east of Denver (1877); PO Gebhard from April 8, 1881, Agate from April 24, 1882. Today: Post office open (USPS) ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 204818 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Cedar Point](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-point/): 8.9 mi southeast - [Claud](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/claud/): 9.9 mi west - [River Bend](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/river-bend/): 14.4 mi southeast - [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 15.8 mi southwest - [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 19.1 mi southwest - [Limon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/limon/): 19.1 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Air Force Academy - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9942, -104.8639 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Contract 1954; PO June 28, 1958. Husted and Edgerton lie on its land. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Census 2407701 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 2.1 mi south - [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 2.2 mi northeast - [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 2.6 mi southeast - [Edgerton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/): 2.8 mi southeast - [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 3.1 mi northeast - [Gleneagle](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gleneagle/): 4.1 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # American Federation of Human Rights headquarters - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/ - Also known as: the Federation building - Kind: Other historic buildings - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2293, -104.8879 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Little beyond its location so far. ## Where it was Read from the 1956 Douglas County map inset of Larkspur with handwritten labels (Larkspur Book 1, Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 220), georeferenced from its Secs. 27/28/33/34 corner (T9S R67W) and its 0.3-mile scale bar; good to about 200 feet. The same method puts the map's 'School' within 300 feet of GNIS's Larkspur post office, the old school building. Marr: 'The Federation of Human Rights built their headquarters in these pines west of town, and their members lived in the surrounding cabins' (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1); the 1956 map labels it 'American Federation' west of the Santa Fe tracks. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 0.2 mi east - [Carlson-Frink creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/): 0.2 mi east - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 0.4 mi south - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 1.2 mi south - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 2.0 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Ayer Ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.008, -104.6024 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Hobbs (1950) placed Easton's first post office 'about one mile north and east of the Ayer Ranch'. Judy von Ahlefeldt's 1979 Black Forest map shows the Ayer Ranch just south of the Eastonville cemetery. The 1976 county survey (B19) gives 12620 Meridian Road, with a log homestead cabin of about 1880, barns and a potato cellar; the Census geocoder puts that address about two-thirds of a mile north-northwest, in Sec. 7; not reconciled. ## Where it was Richard Ayer's patented land (1890 and 1893), the north and middle of Sec. 18, T12S R64W; the Ayer family also patented parts of Secs. 6, 19 and 20 (1886-96). Center of Richard Ayer's parcels; good to about half a mile. A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 0.6 mi north - [Brush Corral](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/): 0.6 mi northwest - [Weir's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/): 0.6 mi northwest - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 1.0 mi north - [Granger](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/granger/): 3.4 mi south - [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 3.8 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Barnwell - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/barnwell/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.1726, -104.5345 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Rock Island stop, established by 1902 (Place Names of Colorado). ## Where it was 'Barnwell': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 15, T10S R64W, 'Est. by 1902. Stop on CRI&P. 5 mi S of Elbert.'; this point is 0.69 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Gomer's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/): 0.9 mi south - [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 3.2 mi north - [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 4.9 mi southeast - [Clermont](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/clermont/): 5.4 mi west - [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 5.6 mi southwest - [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 6.0 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Bartruff graves - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/ - Also known as: Frederick Bartruff, 1831-1875, and daughters - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3053, -104.7211 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Two marked graves on a private ranch off Hwy 83 near Franktown, picket-fenced, abandoned (1999 form). ## Where it was GPS reading 39°18'19" N, 104°43'16" W on the Colorado Cemetery Names Project form (Aug. 31, 1999; Cherry Valley binder LHS_3 p. 8); legal description SE1/4 Sec. 36, T8S R66W agrees. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Schroyer grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/schroyer-grave/): 2.5 mi southeast - [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 3.1 mi north - [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 3.1 mi northwest - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 3.2 mi northeast - [Rock Ridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/): 3.2 mi south - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 3.2 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Bassett's Mill - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bassetts-mill/ - Also known as: Bassett's Mills post office - Kind: Sawmills - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0492, -104.7663 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Post office: Bassetts Mills, 1869–1872 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know W. H. Bassett & Son's sawmill 'on the divide' (1870); their 'Little Giant Saw Mill' advertised from Spring Valley (1869); S. C. Stout hired tie makers there (1871). The post office (1869) was discontinued in April 1872 and Southwater, a D&RG station, 'established instead'. Judy von Ahlefeldt's sawmill chronology puts Alden Bassett's mill (1865-70) '3 miles S.E. of Monument', while her text has William Bassett starting 'the Enterprise Mill in 1865 near Elizabeth' (pp. 22, 113). Neither matches this section. Scott's 1999 trail map puts 'Bassetts Mill 1869' about 1.4 miles west-northwest, in Sec. 33 (S-0106). ## Where it was Center of Sec. 34, T11S R66W, from Place Names of Colorado ('Rural Post Office 1869-1872, moved to Southwater. 8 mi SE of Monument'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid. Medium confidence: the section center is about six miles east-southeast of Monument. Agrees roughly with the 1877 Spring Valley site report ('Bassett's Mill, 9 miles south-west'; this point is 7.3 miles due south) and the 1869 mail route Franktown, Spring Valley, Bassett's Mill, Colorado City; an 1871 ad puts 'Bassett's mill' in El Paso County. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Shamrock Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/shamrock-ranch/): 0.6 mi south - [Lazy M-D log cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lazy-m-d-log-cabin/): 0.8 mi southwest - [S. C. Stout ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/s-c-stout-ranch/): 1.1 mi southwest - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 1.5 mi west - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 1.7 mi northwest - [Pettigrew Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/): 2.6 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Big Sandy - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0857, -104.2897 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Post office: Big Sandy, 1876–1888 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Post office 1876-1877 and 1882-1888 on Big Sandy Creek; Scott labels it 'Big Sandy 1876 (Later Calhan 1881)', so it is Calhan's predecessor. ## Where it was 'Big Sandy 1876 (later Calhan 1881)': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 13, T11S R62W, 'Rural Post Office 1876-1877 & 1882-1888. 30 mi SE of Elbert.'; this point is 0.53 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 1.9 mi north - [Calhan](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/calhan/): 3.5 mi south - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 4.8 mi south - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 7.0 mi east - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 7.1 mi east - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 7.1 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Bijou Basin - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County / Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.1357, -104.4571 (stand-in point) - Post office: Bijou Basin, 1869–1907 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Ranch settlement on the El Paso-Elbert line: Dan Holden settled in 1862; about twenty settler families in 1868; a store, blacksmith shop and saloon; PO 1869-1882 and 1885-1907 (discontinued April 1907); cheese factory from May 1902; mail from Monument and later Peyton. The basin itself is at 39.162, -104.424. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Cemetery 193209, Bijou Basin Cemetery. The post office stood 'ten miles southeast of Elbert', with Peyton 'seven miles south'; the old store building 'yet stands on what is now known as the "Dowling ranch"' (Elbert County Tribune, April 11, 1907). Both distances fit the cemetery. The official point of a school, cemetery or store of the same name, standing in for the place itself. ## Nearby - [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 2.5 mi southeast - [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 2.5 mi northeast - [Cheese Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cheese-ranch/): 4.1 mi southwest - [Gomer's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/): 4.6 mi west - [Barnwell](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/barnwell/): 4.9 mi northwest - [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 7.2 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/ - Also known as: the raid on the Kiowa and Bijou settlements - Kind: Forts, raids and the Indian wars - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.1622, -104.4241 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Kiowa settlers chasing raiders who had driven off their stock and taken Henrietta Dietermann and her son from their ranch on Comanche Creek 'pursued them as far as Bijou Basin, where [they] ran onto a large party of them, fighting inhabitants of that place'; 'columns of smoke were seen rising from the Basin, as if the houses had been fired' (Rocky Mountain News, Aug. 26, 1868). Mrs. Dietermann and her boy were found killed near their house; a Denver company of forty mounted men left for Bijou Basin on Sept. 2 (News, Sept. 2, 1868). Placed at GNIS's Bijou Basin; where in the basin the fighting happened is not stated. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Basin 193210 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 2.5 mi southwest - [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 2.8 mi south - [Fondis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/): 5.5 mi northeast - [Barnwell](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/barnwell/): 6.0 mi west - [Gomer's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/): 6.1 mi west - [Cheese Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cheese-ranch/): 6.6 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Bijou Creek swing station - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.2771, -104.2959 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Stage station on the Smoky Hill South route (Place Names of Colorado); Scott's Butterfield Overland Despatch route of 1865 ends here. ## Where it was 'Bijou Creek Swing Station': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 11, T9S R62W, 'Stage station on Smoky Hill South stage route. 11 OR 18 mi SE of Kiowa?'; this point is 0.39 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 3.8 mi northeast - [Fondis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/): 5.0 mi southwest - [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 5.9 mi west - [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 9.2 mi east - [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 10.2 mi northwest - [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 10.3 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Billy Paul barn - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/billy-paul-barn/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0827, -104.5978 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Gambrel-roofed barn with two cupolas on the ranch of William (Billy) Paul, 'a local potato king'; gone by 2026, per the library's cataloger (PPLD record of survey B9; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 24, 'Billy Paul Barn'). ## Where it was 'East and north of the intersection of Meridian and Forest Green roads' (PPLD record of survey photo B9); placed on Old Barn Road, which the cataloger thinks was named for the barn. Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Grandview Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/): 1.4 mi southeast - [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 1.7 mi north - [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 2.1 mi southeast - [Eastonville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/): 2.4 mi southeast - [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 4.0 mi southwest - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 4.1 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Black Forest - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/ - Also known as: the Pinery, the Pineries - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.013, -104.7008 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Black Forest, 1960–1966 (one list has it still open) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The Pineries: first sawmill 1860, logging peak 1870 (1987 plan). A center at Shoup and Black Forest roads in the 1930s; log school 1922; PO April 16, 1960; five-acre zoning 1965. Point is the GNIS populated place; the CDP's center is farther northeast. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193282 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.0 mi north - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.0 mi west - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.0 mi south - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.3 mi south - [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 0.3 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Black Forest Baptist Assembly - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-baptist-assembly/ - Kind: Churches - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0675, -104.8111 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Baptist assembly grounds north of Baptist Road (GNIS, Monument quadrangle, 1978). Lucille Lavelett (as quoted in 2008 and 2011) says the grounds had been 'one of the largest and best fox farms in the west', Mr. Shelby's. Judy von Ahlefeldt and Vera Ellett instead put a William Brown fox farm at today's Fox Run Park, just east, and Shelby's farm on Ayer's Road. When the Baptists came, and whether Baptist Road is named for the camp, is not yet sourced. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Church 193271 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 1.1 mi east - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 1.4 mi southeast - [Gleneagle](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gleneagle/): 1.7 mi southwest - [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 2.4 mi southwest - [Pettigrew Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/): 2.5 mi northeast - [Borst](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/): 2.6 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Black Forest Community Church - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/ - Also known as: the Old Log Church - Kind: Churches - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0125, -104.6998 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know One-room log church built in 1940 from logs cut and given by members, who also did the work; in 1976 a sign over the door read 'Christian Science Services' (PPLD record of survey B22; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 18). Sunday school from 1932 (von Ahlefeldt p. 101). Incorporated 1937 on two acres at the SE corner given by the Collins and Morrell fox farm (von Ahlefeldt) or 'the Wilkie Collins and C. Modell families' (Ellett p. 46). Basement 1939, log church 1940 (von Ahlefeldt); services by 1940 and a formal opening in October 1942 (Ellett). ## Where it was 6845 Shoup Road, at the Shoup-Black Forest corner (PPLD record of survey photo B22), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.1 mi west - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.3 mi south - [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 0.4 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Black Forest Community Hall - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/ - Kind: Other historic buildings - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0132, -104.7009 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Log community hall at the Black Forest crossroads, next to the 1922 log school. The Community Club organized in March 1929; Cort Burgess gave the land north of the store, and residents cut and hauled the logs, building it in 1929-30 (Ellett pp. 21, 54). ## Where it was A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.0 mi south - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.0 mi southwest - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.0 mi south - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 0.3 mi north - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Black Forest General Store - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/ - Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950 - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0127, -104.7008 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Two-story log store at the Shoup-Black Forest crossroads, built by Harry and Hattie Thomson of logs from the 80 acres they bought at the SW corner in 1928 (Ellett pp. 7-8). The date differs: built 1927 and opened on New Year's Eve with a dance and the Ad-A-Man fireworks (von Ahlefeldt p. 96); 1928 (PPLD record; Ellett's photo captions); grand opening 'on New Years Eve in 1929' (Ellett p. 8). Later owners: the Hardgroves, Homer Davis, the Sharretts, Lefrienks, Rowleys, Freelands (1948), Sampsons (1954-55) and Munsons (Ellett pp. 8-10). It had the second telephone in the Forest, with a pay phone outside from 1935 (Ellett p. 59). The first store at the crossroads was Mr. Utter's, in the early 1920s, in his house on the SW corner, later the Tack Shop (von Ahlefeldt p. 96; Ellett p. 7). The PPLD cataloger says this building replaced an earlier store 50 yards south that became the veterinary clinic; Ellett says the vet used the Gambles store the Munsons built behind it. Not 'Brown's store', which stood at Burgess Road (see Howey's store). (PPLD record of survey photo B27, fall 1976; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 17.) ## Where it was 12490 Black Forest Road (PPLD record of survey photo B27, node 1044717), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.0 mi north - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.0 mi northwest - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.0 mi north - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.1 mi east - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.3 mi south - [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 0.3 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Black Forest Log School - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/ - Kind: Schools - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.013, -104.7011 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Log schoolhouse of 1922 at the Shoup Road-Black Forest Road crossroads, beside the Black Forest Community Hall. Built 1921 (von Ahlefeldt p. 101), 1922 (PPLD) or 1923 (Ellett p. 27), after a school-district fight led by Cort Burgess. Ellett says Burgess bought the land from the Edgar Box Factory and his wife Gertrude gave it; a foundation went under it in 1926. Edith Wolford taught here from 1934. Pupils went to Falcon from 1945, and the county made the school its road maintainer's house (Ellett pp. 27-30, 42). ## Where it was A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.0 mi east - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.0 mi northeast - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.0 mi southeast - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 0.3 mi north - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Black Forest Regional Park - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-regional-park/ - Kind: Other sites - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0136, -104.7379 (mapped feature (OpenStreetMap)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know R. E. Johnson gave 240 acres to the Forest Service in 1944 for a forestry demonstration unit (accepted 1945). In 1950 the Black Forest Community Club and the Izaak Walton League built the 'Black Forest Picnic Grounds, Pike National Forest' there, and in 1977 it was leased to the county park district for a regional park (von Ahlefeldt pp. 94-95). That today's park includes the Johnson land is. Ellett (p. 59) says part of Tom Black's property became a park kept by the Izaak Walton League, now county. ## Where it was The park's point in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-06). A feature drawn in OpenStreetMap, such as a park or a lake. ## Nearby - [La Foret](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/la-foret/): 1.3 mi east - [Burrows Cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/): 1.9 mi east - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 2.0 mi east - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 2.0 mi east - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 2.0 mi east - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 2.0 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Borst - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/ - Also known as: Borstville - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0639, -104.859 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know D&RG station; 'Borst … farming and stock; population 50' in the News's 1874 list; 'the first station on the Rio Grande south of Monument' (McFarling). Named for W. W. Borst, the D&RG's superintendent. Not Southwater: the News's 1872 guide to the line lists Borstville 'a few miles' below Henry's and Southwater separately at the sixtieth milepost, though Place Names of Colorado gives 'Borsts' as Southwater's other name. ## Where it was Center of Sec. 26, T11S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('On D&RGW'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 0.8 mi southeast - [Santa Fe stone arch bridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-stone-arch-bridge/): 1.6 mi north - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 2.0 mi north - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 2.0 mi north - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 2.1 mi north - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 2.1 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Brentwood Country Club gateway - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brentwood-country-club-gateway/ - Kind: Other sites - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0309, -104.698 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Stone-pillared arch built about 1925 for a subdivision whose clubhouse was never finished; only the clubhouse foundation remained in 1976 (PPLD record of survey B17; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 11). The 1987 plan dates the Dreamland and Brentwood country clubs to the 1920s. Ellett (p. 60) dates Brentwood to the early 1920s and puts the arch 'on the divide' on Black Forest Road. von Ahlefeldt (p. 81) gives the local story that California bootleggers financed it; its ponds washed out in 1935 (p. 93). ## Where it was 'At the dead end of the south end of Wyandott Drive with Wildridge Road' (PPLD record of survey photo B17); that junction in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Dreamland Country Club](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dreamland-country-club/): 0.2 mi west - [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 0.9 mi south - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 1.2 mi south - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 1.2 mi south - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 1.2 mi south - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 1.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Brush Corral - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/ - Also known as: camping place - Kind: Other sites - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0125, -104.6117 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know A corral attributed to Capt. Randolph Marcy's expedition after the blizzard of April 30, 1858, later used by freighters' oxen and mules hauling lumber from the Finley mill on Black Squirrel Creek (von Ahlefeldt p. 20, from the Voorhees diary). ## Where it was 'Brush Corral Camping Place': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet); shares Scott's symbol with Weir Mill. von Ahlefeldt: 'very near' Latigo's equestrian center and the Weir Mill (p. 97). Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Weir's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/): 0.0 mi southwest - [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 0.4 mi northeast - [Ayer Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/): 0.6 mi southeast - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 0.8 mi northeast - [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 3.2 mi northwest - [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 3.7 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Bucks Place - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/ - Also known as: Harrison Bucks homestead - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1589, -104.7491 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Harrison Bucks, Civil War veteran and freighter, patented the 'Bucks Place' in 1878 and helped build the Spring Valley School; Bucks Mountain was added in 1885. ## Where it was Centroid of the patented forties (S1/2 SW1/4 Sec. 23 and NW1/4 NE1/4 and NE1/4 NW1/4 Sec. 26, T10S R66W) per the landmark nomination's footnote citing BLM COCOAA 074025 (Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 128). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.7 mi southwest - [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 0.9 mi northwest - [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 1.0 mi west - [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 1.3 mi west - [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 1.3 mi southwest - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.2 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Burrows Cabin - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/ - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0043, -104.7042 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Two-story log house built about 1949 by Joe Burrows from trees on the property, cut at his own sawmill; walls insulated with shavings from trimming the logs, pegged floors (PPLD record of survey B28; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 19). ## Where it was 6750 Burrows Road (PPLD record of survey photo B28), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.4 mi northeast - [Howey's store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/howeys-store/): 0.5 mi southeast - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.6 mi north - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.6 mi northeast - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.6 mi north - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.6 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Calhan - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/calhan/ - Also known as: Calahan - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0355, -104.2972 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Calhan, 1888 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Rock Island water station, 1888; PO Nov. 24, 1888; platted 1895; incorporated April 22, 1919. Today: Town of Calhan ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193304 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 2.0 mi southeast - [Big Sandy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/): 3.5 mi north - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 5.4 mi north - [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 8.7 mi northwest - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 9.1 mi northeast - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 9.2 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Cantril homestead - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/ - Also known as: John R. Cantril - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2535, -104.942 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know John R. Cantril's homestead on West Plum Creek; the Glen Grove schoolhouse was moved in 1871 'to the bank along the creek above John Cantril's house' (Marr), near Cantril's sawmill (not placed). ## Where it was Centroid of the final-proof land (SE1/4 NE1/4 and NE1/4 SE1/4 Sec. 24, T9S R68W; SW1/4 NW1/4 and NW1/4 SW1/4 Sec. 19, T9S R67W), Castle Rock Journal notices of Oct.-Nov. 1884. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Glen Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove/): 0.7 mi northwest - [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 1.1 mi northwest - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 1.1 mi northwest - [Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/): 1.1 mi southwest - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 1.5 mi northwest - [Abbe Ranch House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/abbe-ranch-house/): 2.5 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Carlson-Frink creamery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/ - Also known as: Larkspur creamery - Kind: Cheese factories, creameries and other works - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2286, -104.8836 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know An earlier Larkspur creamery operated from 1896. ## Where it was Read from the 1956 Douglas County map inset of Larkspur with handwritten labels (Larkspur Book 1, Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 220), georeferenced from its Secs. 27/28/33/34 corner (T9S R67W) and its 0.3-mile scale bar; good to about 200 feet. The same method puts the map's 'School' within 300 feet of GNIS's Larkspur post office, the old school building. Marr: 'the Carlson Frink creamery stood a short distance south of the depot, and the main road passed by it' (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1); on the 1956 map it sits beside the D&RG and the road junction. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 0.1 mi west - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 0.2 mi west - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 0.2 mi west - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 0.4 mi south - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 1.2 mi southwest - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 2.1 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Cascade - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.8967, -104.9722 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Cascade, 1887 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Ute Pass. Probably outside. Today: Census-designated place (Cascade-Chipita Park) ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193326 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Green Mountain Falls](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/green-mountain-falls/): 3.6 mi northwest - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 7.6 mi northeast - [Woodland Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodland-park/): 8.1 mi northwest - [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 8.2 mi east - [Roswell](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/roswell/): 8.4 mi east - [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 8.4 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1 - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/ - Kind: Ice harvesting - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9611, -104.8393 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Stone ice-pond dam on West Monument Creek, built 1887 with stonework by David McShane's company; ice harvested until 1906. ## Where it was 'Reservoir No. 1 in the NW1/4 of NW1/4 of SE1/4 Sec. 36 T12S R67W' (PLHS, Jack Anthony, 2025, crediting Academy archaeologists); computed. Reservoir No. 2, today's Ice Lake, was in the W1/2 SE1/4 SE1/4. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Edgerton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/): 0.2 mi east - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 1.1 mi west - [Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/): 1.7 mi southeast - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 2.6 mi northwest - [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 3.3 mi south - [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 4.1 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Casteel cabin and store - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/ - Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950 - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0176, -104.7001 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Two-story log cabin with a stable and a large log building that PPLD's cataloger calls 'likely a former store' (survey B24, summer 1976; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 14). Phoebe Casteel, wife of a Brentwood employee, ran a store and restaurant in her large cabin from 1925 (von Ahlefeldt p. 96, who puts it 'just south of the Black Forest intersection'). Ellett (p. 7) puts her store 'a quarter of a mile north of Shoup Road on Black Forest Road', as the survey address does: an unlocked cabin store ('help yourself, but close the door'), Sunday chicken dinners for twenty, and boarders in her eight-room house. Her daughter Beth Cadle was one of von Ahlefeldt's sources. ## Where it was 12845 Black Forest Road (PPLD records of survey photos B24), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.3 mi south - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.3 mi south - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.3 mi south - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.3 mi south - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.4 mi south - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.6 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Castle Rock - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3722, -104.8561 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Castle Rock (1871), 1871–1874; New Memphis, 1872–1874; Castle Rock, 1871 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The first Castle Rock PO (1871) sat at the Douglas site three miles south; New Memphis's office took the name May 18, 1874; plat filed April 25, 1874. Today: Town of Castle Rock ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 169449 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 1.0 mi northwest - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 1.4 mi north - [Madge Quarry](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/madge-quarry/): 2.0 mi south - [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 2.5 mi southwest - [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 5.2 mi south - [Oakland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/): 5.3 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Castlewood Canyon Dam - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/ - Also known as: Old Castlewood Dam - Kind: Cheese factories, creameries and other works - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3411, -104.7569 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Irrigation dam on Cherry Creek, built by a private company about 1890 ('The Castlewood reservoir, recently completed', 1893); it failed on Aug. 3, 1933 and flooded Cherry Creek to Denver. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Dam 185107 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 3.1 mi east - [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.1 mi southeast - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 3.2 mi east - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 3.4 mi east - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 3.5 mi north - [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 3.5 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Cedar Hill Cemetery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/ - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3794, -104.8724 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Castle Rock's cemetery, 'West side of Town of Castle Rock (Sec. 3, T8S, R67W)', established 1875 (Larkspur Historical Society binder 10 p. 124). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Cemetery 2120672 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Castle Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock/): 1.0 mi southeast - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 1.5 mi northeast - [Madge Quarry](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/madge-quarry/): 2.7 mi south - [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 2.7 mi south - [Oakland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/): 4.5 mi west - [St. Philip-in-the-Field](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-philip-in-the-field/): 4.8 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Cedar Point - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-point/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.3453, -103.8705 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Kansas Pacific station, 5,730 feet, 'on the divide, between the waters that flow north and south' (Crofutt 1881). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 203756 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [River Bend](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/river-bend/): 5.8 mi southeast - [Agate](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/): 8.9 mi northwest - [Limon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/limon/): 11.1 mi southeast - [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 13.2 mi southwest - [Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lake/): 14.0 mi southeast - [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 14.2 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Cheese Ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cheese-ranch/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0855, -104.497 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know One of the earliest homesteads in the Peyton-Bijou Basin area, begun as a horse ranch supplying mounts to the U.S. Cavalry; a small stone house built into the hillside (PPLD records of survey B5). ## Where it was 'Four miles north of Peyton on Bradshaw Road' (PPLD record of survey photo B5): four miles north of GNIS's Peyton point is the north end of Bradshaw Road in OpenStreetMap. Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Eastonville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/): 3.9 mi southwest - [Peyton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peyton/): 4.0 mi south - [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 4.1 mi northeast - [Grandview Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/): 4.3 mi west - [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 4.4 mi southwest - [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 5.1 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Cherry / Williamsville - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-williamsville/ - Also known as: Cherry Valley - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.21, -104.719 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Post office: Cherry, 1900–1920 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know David Rice Williams's homestead and cheese factory on West Cherry Creek (from 1873 per the binders; 'Williamsville' in the newspapers from 1895). Cherry PO opened spring 1900, 'locally known as Williamsville'; closed 1920. ## Where it was Approximate (about half a mile): 'The Pratt schoolhouse, a mile south of Williamsville' (1899); the Cherry School lot at the NE corner of Sec. 12, T10S R66W (deeds); the post office on the later Anderson ranch, 10425 S. Hwy 83, placed by interpolating addresses along Hwy 83; Place Names of Colorado's Sec. 6, T10S R65W is half a mile east. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Pratt farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-farm/): 0.5 mi west - [Pratt / Cherry School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-cherry-school/): 0.7 mi south - [Rock Ridge-Case cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-case-cemetery/): 3.3 mi north - [Rock Ridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/): 3.6 mi north - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 3.9 mi southwest - [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 3.9 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Claud - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/claud/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.4573, -104.128 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Post office: Claud, 1882–1888 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Post office 1882-1888, ten miles south of Deer Trail. ## Where it was 'Claud 1882': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 5, T7S R60W, 'Rural Post Office 1882-1888. 10 mi S of Deer Trail.'; this point is 0.86 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Agate](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/): 9.9 mi east - [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 12.1 mi south - [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 12.2 mi southwest - [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 12.2 mi west - [Wolfcreek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolfcreek/): 15.1 mi northwest - [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 15.3 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Clermont - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/clermont/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.1539, -104.6316 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Post office: Clermont, 1881–1883; mail later sent to Elbert - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Post office 1881-1883, mail to Elbert, on the D&NO line south of Elbert; Scott dates it 1881. ## Where it was 'Clermont 1881': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 25, T10S R65W, 'Site 2. Rural Post Office 1881-1883. 6 mi W of Sidney. 9 mi SW of Elbert.'; this point is 0.82 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Russell Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/): 3.4 mi southwest - [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 3.7 mi southeast - [Table Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock/): 3.8 mi southwest - [Table Rock burial ground (reported)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock-burial-ground-reported/): 3.8 mi southwest - [Gomer's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/): 5.1 mi east - [Pike View Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pike-view-ranch/): 5.1 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Coberly's Half-Way House - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/coberlys-half-way-house/ - Also known as: Coberly's Ranch; Coberly House; Mrs. Crull's ranch - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2987, -105.0002 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Sarah Coberly's stage station and overnight stop, halfway between Denver and Colorado City, about 1858-64; an 1861 election precinct. Scott says the Coberlys then moved to East Plum Creek, the S1/2 of Sec. 16, T9S R67W (1864-69), beside the People's Fort; the 1906 Castle Rock Journal's 'about eight miles south of Castle Rock' fits that second site. Sarah later married William Crull. Scott's 1999 trail map puts 'Coberly House or Halfway House 1858-1864' within about 70 m of this point, and 'Coberly House or Halfway House 1864-1869' near Huntsville, about 7 miles east (S-0106). ## Where it was SE1/4 NE1/4 of Sec. 4, T9S R68W, on Spring Creek west of West Plum Creek: Glenn Scott's historic trail map, citing the 1863 muster roll and Coberly family correspondence of 1961 (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 104). Center of that quarter-quarter; good to about a quarter mile. Sarah A. Crull's cash-entry patent of May 20, 1870 includes the SE1/4 NE1/4 of Sec. 4, T9S R68W (BLM GLO record as printed in Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 42); an 1872 road company's route starts 'From Mrs. Crull's Ranch [Coberly House or Halfway House]' (Scott, same page). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Dakan](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dakan/): 1.2 mi southwest - [Lone Tree School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lone-tree-school/): 2.5 mi northeast - [Perry Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/): 2.9 mi south - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 3.0 mi southeast - [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 3.4 mi southeast - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 3.4 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Collins and Morrell fox farm - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/ - Kind: Fox and fur farms - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0085, -104.6995 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Wilkie Collins and Clarence Morrell's farm, from 1935 (von Ahlefeldt): about 150 foxes and some mink, with water carried from the creek between the two houses and meat ground by a Model A engine (Ellett p. 65). The farm gave the two acres at the SE corner of the crossroads for the Community Church (von Ahlefeldt p. 101). ## Where it was 'At the former Shoup Ranch just south of the Black Forest intersection, where the wire fox pens can still be seen from the road' (von Ahlefeldt p. 92); 'just south of the Community Center', where Collins lived in Cort Burgess's old house on the east side of the road (Ellett pp. 3, 65). Placed about 0.3 mile south of the crossroads, east side; good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.3 mi north - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.3 mi north - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.3 mi north - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.3 mi north - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.3 mi north - [Burrows Cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/): 0.4 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Columbine School - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/columbine-school/ - Also known as: District 26 Joint - Kind: Schools - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1297, -104.8306 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know One-teacher school of a joint Douglas-El Paso district; when it burned it was not rebuilt and pupils went to Larkspur (Larkspur Historical Society binder 5 p. 11). The 'Baptist Assembly' there is probably today's Ponderosa Retreat and Conference Center at 15235 Furrow Road, a Colorado Baptist camp established in 1960 (CCCA listing), not the Black Forest Baptist Assembly off Baptist Road. ## Where it was 'Southeast of Greenland, on the County Line Road … in the vicinity of the Baptist Assembly, near the present Furrow Road' (Larkspur Historical Society binder 5 p. 11); placed where Furrow Road meets County Line Road in OpenStreetMap. Good to about half a mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Woodmoor](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodmoor/): 2.2 mi southwest - [Monument Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-cemetery/): 2.8 mi southwest - [Gwillimville schoolhouse (now the Chamber's meeting house)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-schoolhouse-now-the-chambers-meeting-house/): 3.0 mi southwest - [Spruce](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spruce/): 3.2 mi northwest - [McShane Home](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshane-home/): 3.3 mi southwest - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 3.3 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Crull-Hammond cabin - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/ - Also known as: Huntsville historical site - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2716, -104.899 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Log cabin whose logs were felled between August 1873 and June 1874 (University of Arizona tree-ring report, 2000, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 pp. 121-126), on land Christopher Crull entered in 1869; who built it is unsettled. Crull reopened the Huntsville post office on April 8, 1869. ## Where it was The county's 0.73-acre 'Historical Site' in the NW1/4 of Sec. 16, T9S R67W, just west of Bear Dance Drive, computed from the 2005 survey description (David E. Archer & Associates, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 144); good to about 100 feet. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Huntsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/): 0.3 mi southeast - [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 0.8 mi south - [Sawmill on the 1866 survey](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/): 0.8 mi southeast - [Glade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/): 2.1 mi northeast - [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 2.1 mi north - [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 2.6 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # D&RG icehouses, Palmer Lake - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/d-and-rg-icehouses-palmer-lake/ - Kind: Ice harvesting - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1218, -104.9123 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know English capitalists leased the lake from the D&RG in 1873 and built an icehouse on the northwest shore; the railroad took over the harvest by 1882 and in 1889 built a five-unit icehouse at the south end, a skidway over 1,000 feet long and three spur tracks. 18,000 tons were cut in 1899 with four teams and about forty men. The icehouses burned May 17, 1908 with 6,000 tons of ice; the railroad retired its icing facilities in December 1926 (Edwards, PLHS, quoting the papers). The D&RG also cut ice from its Lower Reservoir in North Monument Canyon in 1902. ## Where it was 'A five-unit frame icehouse was constructed at the south end of the lake' (Hobie Edwards, PLHS 'Ice Harvesting on Palmer Lake'); the south shore of Palmer Lake in OpenStreetMap. Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.2 mi southwest - [Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/): 0.3 mi west - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.4 mi west - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.4 mi southwest - [Katrina Murat cottage](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/katrina-murat-cottage/): 0.5 mi west - [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.5 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Dakan - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dakan/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2876, -105.0184 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Post office: Dakan, 1896–1898 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Gold camp of November 1896 on the Dakan ranch: stage lines from Castle Rock, Sedalia and Palmer Lake, Stott & Garrison's store, a newspaper (the Dakan News), the Black Canon group of claims on Fritz Mountain; PO established January 1897 (John C. Harrison), discontinued Aug. 15, 1898, mail to Perry Park (CHNC, S-0096). Wikipedia's list dates the office Dec. 30, 1896 to Aug. 2, 1898. Albert Dakan, the oldest son, wrote the 1940 account of Fort Washington. ## Where it was NE1/4 NE1/4 of Sec. 8, T9S R68W, labeled 'Town of Dakan' on the Larkspur society's 2011 map of the area (Perry Park binder LHS_9 p. 45). Center of that quarter-quarter; good to about a quarter mile. Wikipedia's point (39.238, -105.066) is four miles southwest, beside Dakan Mountain, and is not used. The Dakan family's cash-entry patents lie next door: George W. Dakan's NE1/4 NE1/4 and Frank Dakan's parcels in Sec. 9, T9S R68W (BLM records printed in Larkspur Historical Society binder 9 pp. 48-50); Allen and Elizabeth Dakan homesteaded at Perry Park in 1870 (1913 obituary, p. 48). In November 1896 'Allan Dakan, whose ranch adjoins the scene of the strike,' arranged to plat twenty acres (Castle Rock Journal, Nov. 13, 1896); Mrs. W. A. Dakan filed the plat, 180 lots, in January 1897 (CRJ, Jan. 29, 1897). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Coberly's Half-Way House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/coberlys-half-way-house/): 1.2 mi northeast - [Perry Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/): 2.5 mi southeast - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 3.3 mi southeast - [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 3.7 mi southeast - [Lone Tree School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lone-tree-school/): 3.7 mi northeast - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 3.9 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/ - Also known as: Henrietta Dietemann and her son - Kind: Murders, lynchings and killings - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.2905, -104.4047 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Henrietta Dietemann and her son, about five, were killed and scalped while her husband was in Denver; her daughter, sister-in-law and a farmhand escaped. Their bodies were shown in Denver (News, Sept. 2, 1868; von Ahlefeldt p. 24). ## Where it was Scott's X 'Dietemann Massacre Aug. 27, 1868', just west of Comanche Creek: Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet). 'Henrietta Dietermann and her son … killed near their house on Comanche Creek' (Weekly News, Sept. 2, 1868, S-0097). Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 5.1 mi northwest - [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 5.2 mi northwest - [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 5.9 mi east - [Fondis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/): 6.0 mi southeast - [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 8.6 mi southwest - [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 8.9 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Divide (Teller County) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/divide-teller-county/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Teller County, Colorado - Point: 38.9419, -105.1572 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Divide, 1889 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know A different 'Divide' (PO 1889). Palmer Lake's station was also called Divide. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 191170 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Woodland Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodland-park/): 6.5 mi northeast - [Green Mountain Falls](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/green-mountain-falls/): 7.6 mi east - [Cascade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade/): 10.4 mi east - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 16.1 mi east - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 16.2 mi east - [Monument Nursery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-nursery/): 16.8 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Douglas - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/ - Also known as: Douglass - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3404, -104.8771 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Post office: Douglass, 1874–1886 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The first Castle Rock PO (April 5, 1871); in 1872 'a little store and a water tank as yet monopolize the corner lots' (News); Douglas PO 1874-1886; platted July 28, 1880 by the National Land & Improvement Co.; stone quarries (rhyolite). ## Where it was Center of Sec. 22, T8S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('Rural Post Office 1874-1886. Previously Castle Rock'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. Crofutt (1881) and Hall (1891) both put Douglas 'three miles south of Castle Rock' on East Plum Creek and the D&RG; the section center is 2.2 miles south of downtown Castle Rock. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Madge Quarry](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/madge-quarry/): 1.2 mi east - [Castle Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock/): 2.5 mi northeast - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 2.7 mi north - [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 2.7 mi south - [Glade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/): 3.0 mi south - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 3.8 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Dreamland Country Club - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dreamland-country-club/ - Kind: Other sites - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0303, -104.7016 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Dr. Asa Coggswell, a Colorado Springs dentist, started it just after World War I: five-acre tracts around a nine-hole golf course on the meadow, three man-made lakes (washed out in 1932, per Ellett), a clubhouse on a knoll and an icehouse by the lake. Disputes and the 1929 crash ended it. Clive McBroom told of a dugout trading post on the land, with old bills of lading (Ellett pp. 1, 60-61, 73; von Ahlefeldt pp. 80-81). ## Where it was The club lay 'across the road from Brentwood' (Ellett p. 60), on the McBroom homestead in the valley of Kettle Creek (von Ahlefeldt p. 80). Good to about half a mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Brentwood Country Club gateway](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brentwood-country-club-gateway/): 0.2 mi east - [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 0.9 mi south - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 1.2 mi south - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 1.2 mi south - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 1.2 mi south - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 1.2 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Easton (first post office) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0231, -104.6044 (street address) - Post office: Easton, 1872–1883 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Easton's post office before the railroad (opened 1872 or 1873; moved to the McConnellsville station in 1882 and renamed Eastonville in 1883). Goodrich's section also holds the Eastonville cemetery, and Richard Ayer's land lies 1.05 miles south, as Hobbs's 'one mile north and east of the Ayer Ranch' requires. 1870s distances (18, 19 and 20 miles northeast of Colorado Springs) fit: this point is 17.5 miles straight-line from downtown. ## Where it was Jonathan Goodrich's patented land (Dec. 5, 1884), Sec. 7, T12S R64W: W1/2 NW, NE NW, NW SW. Hobbs (1950) put Easton 'on Jonathan Goodrich's place'. Center of those parcels; good to about half a mile. A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 0.5 mi south - [Brush Corral](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/): 0.8 mi southwest - [Weir's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/): 0.9 mi southwest - [Ayer Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/): 1.0 mi south - [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 3.1 mi northwest - [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 3.1 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Eastonville - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/ - Also known as: Easton; McConnellsville - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0611, -104.5622 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Easton, 1872–1883; Eastonville, 1883–1932; mail later sent to Peyton - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The D&NO station of 1882 was McConnellsville: 64 miles from Denver 'on summit of the Divide', about 150 residents in July 1882. Easton's post office moved to it and, said Hobbs, was renamed Eastonville because 'Easton' was too like 'Eaton'. PO Eastonville 1883-1932; Hobbs (1950) on its trains, stores and the 1935 flood. Easton's own first site is separate and not yet placed. Cemetery at 39.016, -104.606. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193298 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 0.5 mi west - [Grandview Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/): 1.0 mi northwest - [Billy Paul barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/billy-paul-barn/): 2.4 mi northwest - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 3.5 mi southwest - [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 3.7 mi northwest - [Cheese Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cheese-ranch/): 3.9 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Eastonville Cemetery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/ - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0157, -104.6064 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know In Jonathan Goodrich's patented section (Sec. 7, T12S R64W), the site of old Easton's first post office; 'Easton was located about a fifth of a mile west of the Eastonville cemetery' (New Falcon Herald). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Cemetery 193295 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Brush Corral](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/): 0.4 mi southwest - [Weir's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/): 0.4 mi southwest - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 0.5 mi north - [Ayer Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/): 0.6 mi south - [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 3.3 mi northwest - [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 3.6 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Eastonville Episcopal church (moved) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/ - Kind: Churches - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0597, -104.5711 (mapped feature (OpenStreetMap)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Shell of Eastonville's Episcopal church, with its Gothic windows, used as a barn and abandoned by 1976 (PPLD record of survey B6). Whether it survives is not known. John Liebi bought the church and moved it in 1917 to his ranch west of town (von Ahlefeldt pp. 64, 125); by 1914 it had served as the town hall (photo, p. 61). ## Where it was 'Moved from its former location to Eastonville Road just as it jogs east to meet the Sweet Road' (PPLD record of survey photo B6); that jog in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05). The church's first site in Eastonville is not placed. A feature drawn in OpenStreetMap, such as a park or a lake. ## Nearby - [Eastonville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/): 0.5 mi east - [Grandview Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/): 0.8 mi north - [Billy Paul barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/billy-paul-barn/): 2.1 mi northwest - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 3.1 mi southwest - [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 3.6 mi northwest - [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 3.6 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Edgerton - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/ - Also known as: the first 'Monument' (1870) - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9606, -104.8359 (approximate (Wikipedia)) - Post office: Edgerton, 1870–1902; mail later sent to Roswell - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgerton,_Colorado - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Called Monument in 1870, then Edgerton-Monument, then Edgerton (McFarling 1958); PO 1870-1902, then moved to Pikeview. Gone, on Academy land. The Kearney-Hand murders of about March 30, 1888 happened at Hand's ranch 'a mile and a half northwest of Edgerton station' (newspapers, 1888). ## Where it was Wikipedia (approximate). Place Names of Colorado puts it in Sec. 36, T12S R67W, '8 mi N of Colorado Springs'; that section's center is within half a mile of this point. Wikipedia's coordinates; approximate, and still to be confirmed. ## Nearby - [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 0.2 mi west - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 1.3 mi west - [Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/): 1.5 mi southeast - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 2.8 mi northwest - [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 3.2 mi south - [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 4.1 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Elbert - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/ - Also known as: Gomer's Mill - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.2194, -104.5372 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Gomers Mills, 1870–1882; Elbert, 1870 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO opened June 13, 1870 as Gomer's Mill, Elbert from June 27, 1882; 'on the head of Kiowa Creek' (Crofutt 1881); D&NO 1881; platted 1884. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193207 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Barnwell](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/barnwell/): 3.2 mi south - [Gomer's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/): 4.1 mi south - [Clermont](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/clermont/): 6.8 mi southwest - [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 7.2 mi southeast - [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 7.2 mi southeast - [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 8.4 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Elizabeth - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/ - Also known as: Webber's Mill - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.3603, -104.5969 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Elizabeth, 1882 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO April 24, 1882; on the Denver & New Orleans from 1881; incorporated Aug. 30, 1890. Today: Town of Elizabeth ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 185149 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Running Creek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/): 2.4 mi north - [Ponderosa Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ponderosa-park/): 4.4 mi northwest - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 5.3 mi west - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 5.4 mi west - [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 5.6 mi west - [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 6.0 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Ellicott - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ellicott/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.8383, -104.3869 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Ellicott, 1895–1916 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Little beyond its location so far. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193564 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 11.4 mi west - [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 11.5 mi west - [Granger](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/granger/): 13.5 mi northwest - [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 13.6 mi northwest - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 14.1 mi northeast - [Peyton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peyton/): 14.1 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Estemere - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/ - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1205, -104.921 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Queen Anne mansion of 1887 built by Dr. William Finley Thompson, Palmer Lake's founder and first mayor (PPLD record of survey B48). ## Where it was 380 Glenway (PPLD record of survey photo B48), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.1 mi northeast - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Katrina Murat cottage](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/katrina-murat-cottage/): 0.2 mi north - [Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/): 0.2 mi northeast - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.3 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Fagan's Grave - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/ - Also known as: O'Falley's Grave (1858) - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1074, -104.5967 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The grave Augustus Voorhees called 'O'Falley's Grave' in 1858, twelve miles along the trail from Marcy's camps; its headstone faced south below the Point of Rocks in 1979 (von Ahlefeldt pp. 20-21). ## Where it was 'Fagan's Grave Camping Place': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet); beside Kiowa Creek just west of Scott's Point of Rocks. 'Along the Jimmy Camp Trail on the west bank of Kiowa Creek near the Point of Rocks' (von Ahlefeldt p. 20, photo p. 21); the 1987 Black Forest plan's Map 2 No. 25. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Billy Paul barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/billy-paul-barn/): 1.7 mi south - [Grandview Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/): 2.8 mi southeast - [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 3.6 mi southeast - [Eastonville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/): 3.7 mi southeast - [Clermont](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/clermont/): 3.7 mi northwest - [Russell Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/): 4.4 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Fairview School and Evans stage stop - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fairview-school-and-evans-stage-stop/ - Kind: Schools - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0708, -104.6911 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know One-room school of about 1885 paid for by J. G. Evans; it served children south of Table Rock and north of the forest, and was later moved onto his ranch. A log shed beside it is identified as a former stagecoach stop and warming station, probably older than Evans's arrival (PPLD records of survey B16; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 10, 'Fairview School, Evans Stage Stop'). ## Where it was Behind the Evans ranch house, 7315 Hodgen Road (PPLD records of survey photos B16), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). The school's first site, 'across the road, and some distance away', is not placed. A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [J. G. Evans barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/j-g-evans-barn/): 0.1 mi northeast - [McConnell homestead (1882)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcconnell-homestead-1882/): 0.9 mi northwest - [Steppler potato cellar](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/): 2.5 mi northwest - [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 2.7 mi southeast - [Brentwood Country Club gateway](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brentwood-country-club-gateway/): 2.8 mi south - [Dreamland Country Club](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dreamland-country-club/): 2.9 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Falcon - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.933, -104.6086 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Falcon, 1888–1942; mail later sent to Peyton - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Junction of the Rock Island and the Denver & New Orleans; 'near the summit of the divide' (Hall 1891); PO Oct. 10, 1888 to Sept. 14, 1942. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193381 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Granger](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/granger/): 2.5 mi northeast - [Forest View School site](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/forest-view-school-site/): 5.0 mi west - [Ayer Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/): 5.2 mi north - [Lindamood Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/): 5.4 mi west - [Weir's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/): 5.5 mi north - [Brush Corral](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/): 5.5 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Fishbeck fox farm - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fishbeck-fox-farm/ - Kind: Fox and fur farms - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0105, -104.6818 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Phil Fishbeck's farm, from the early 1930s. He specialized in black-silver foxes and developed a platinum-silver variety (von Ahlefeldt p. 92; his daughter Mildred Hardgrove was her source). ## Where it was 'Just south of Shoup on Hering Road' (Ellett p. 65); 'on Herring Road' (von Ahlefeldt p. 92). Placed about 0.15 mile south of the Shoup-Herring junction in OpenStreetMap; good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Wolford house (1934-38)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolford-house-1934-38/): 0.2 mi north - [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 0.3 mi north - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 1.0 mi west - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 1.0 mi west - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 1.0 mi west - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 1.0 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Fondis - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.2158, -104.3472 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Fondis, 1895–1954; mail later sent to Elbert - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Inland hamlet on the boundary road between school districts 20 and 26; PO Nov. 25, 1895 to July 15, 1954, mail to Elbert. A Sunday school from January 1899; a United Brethren church built in 1900; Dockum & Son, 'the pioneer merchants', sold out in 1902 to O'Neill & Moore, who also ran the Fondis cheese factory (H. A. Moore, manager). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193211. Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 33, T9S R62W, '11 mi E of Elbert', about three-quarters of a mile from GNIS's point. The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 5.0 mi northeast - [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 5.5 mi southwest - [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 6.0 mi northwest - [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 7.4 mi southwest - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 7.7 mi south - [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 8.1 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Forest View School site - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/forest-view-school-site/ - Also known as: the Bleeker (Blecker) School, moved - Kind: Schools - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9502, -104.6996 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know One-room school first built on the Angling (now Vollmer) Road, 'just north of the intersection with Black Forest Road' (von Ahlefeldt) or 'about a half a mile from Black Forest Road' (Ellett), and named for its first teacher. It was moved to Black Forest Road (then Table Rock Road) about World War I (von Ahlefeldt) or in 1921-22 (Ellett) and renamed Forest View. Pupils went to Falcon from 1945, and the building was moved to Colorado Springs as a house. Six trees, the foundation and an ash pit marked the site (Ellett pp. 27-28, 42; von Ahlefeldt pp. 100-101). ## Where it was On Black Forest Road 'right across from the Kit Carson Riding Club arena' (Ellett p. 28), the arena in OpenStreetMap; von Ahlefeldt (p. 101) has the Bleeker School moved 'a few hundred yards west' from the Angling (Vollmer) Road to Black Forest Road. Good to a few hundred feet. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Lindamood Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/): 0.9 mi southwest - [Indian Doctor's Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/indian-doctors-place/): 2.4 mi north - [Howey's store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/howeys-store/): 3.3 mi north - [Burrows Cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/): 3.7 mi north - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 4.0 mi north - [La Foret](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/la-foret/): 4.2 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Fort Washington (1868) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/ - Also known as: the fort at Ben Quick's ranch - Kind: Forts, raids and the Indian wars - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2677, -104.9511 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know A log stockade about eight feet high around Ben Quick's house and barn on upper West Plum Creek, enclosing over an acre; a dozen or fifteen families sheltered there for about two months from August 1868; the men formed a cavalry troop under John A. Koontz (Dakan, 1940). ## Where it was Half a mile north of GNIS's Glen Grove School (historical): 'only about half mile north of the present sight of your Glen Grove school building' (Albert Dakan's letter of Feb. 23, 1940 to the Glen Grove teacher, Larkspur Historical Society binder 10 pp. 18-19). The point is the center of Sec. 13, T9S R68W, where Quick's later stone house stands; good to about half a mile. Marr: 'three miles west of the People's Fort' (the two points are 3.0 miles apart); Glenn Scott's trail map: 'SW 1/4 sec. 13, T. 9 S., R. 68 W.' (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 104), whose northeast corner this is. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 0.4 mi southwest - [Glen Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove/): 0.5 mi south - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 0.6 mi west - [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 1.1 mi southeast - [Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/): 2.0 mi south - [Perry Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/): 2.3 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Franceville - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.8066, -104.5948 (approximate (Wikipedia)) - Post office: Franceville, 1881–1894 - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franceville,_Colorado - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Coal camp (Hall). ## Where it was Wikipedia (approximate) Wikipedia's coordinates; approximate, and still to be confirmed. ## Nearby - [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 0.1 mi west - [McFerran coal mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/): 4.4 mi northwest - [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 5.0 mi northwest - [Jimmy Camp spring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/): 5.0 mi northwest - [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 8.8 mi north - [Kelker](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kelker/): 10.1 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Franceville coal mine - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/ - Kind: Mines and quarries - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.8064, -104.5969 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Matt France discovered the lignite beds six to fourteen feet down (Hall, 1891); in May 1882 a News correspondent called Franceville 'the center of the great coal fields' along the new D&NO (S-0078). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Mine 193545. 'Franceville is a coal mining town in the eastern part of El Paso, named in honor of Honorable Matt France of Colorado Springs' (Hall, 1891); a D&NO spur 'ran east to Franceville, named for landowner Matthew France' (von Ahlefeldt p. 51). The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 0.1 mi east - [McFerran coal mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/): 4.3 mi northwest - [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 4.9 mi northwest - [Jimmy Camp spring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/): 4.9 mi northwest - [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 8.8 mi north - [Kelker](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kelker/): 10.0 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Franktown - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/ - Also known as: Frankstown; Russellville PO; California Ranch - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3914, -104.7528 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Russellville, 1862; Frankstown, 1862–1864; Franktown, 1862 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO opened May 22, 1862 as Russellville, renamed Frankstown Sept. 8, 1862; made the county seat; county business later moved to the California Ranch. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 204741 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 0.0 mi northeast - [Pikes Peak Grange hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikes-peak-grange-hall/): 1.3 mi northwest - [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 3.5 mi south - [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 4.2 mi southeast - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 4.3 mi southeast - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 4.4 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Franktown Cemetery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/ - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3917, -104.752 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 'Northeast corner of intersection of Colo. 83 & Colo. 86, at Franktown (Sec. 35, T7S, R66W)'; land deeded by James Kelly on his wife's death in June 1870; still in use (Douglas County cemetery listing, Stone House binder LHS_10 p. 124). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Cemetery 2120673 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 0.0 mi southwest - [Pikes Peak Grange hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikes-peak-grange-hall/): 1.3 mi northwest - [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 3.5 mi south - [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 4.2 mi southeast - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 4.3 mi southeast - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 4.4 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Fremont's Fort - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/ - Kind: Other sites - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1218, -104.4146 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Butte in the middle of Bijou Basin; 'legend has it' that John C. Fremont or some of his party climbed it to evade Indians (PPLD record of survey photo B1). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Summit 193301 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 2.5 mi northwest - [Bijou Basin fight (Aug. 25, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin-fight-aug-25-1868/): 2.8 mi north - [Cheese Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cheese-ranch/): 5.1 mi southwest - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 6.6 mi east - [Gomer's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/): 7.1 mi west - [Big Sandy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/): 7.1 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Frink House - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/ - Also known as: the Frink family home - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2238, -104.8858 (street address, interpolated (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Little beyond its location so far. ## Where it was 9490 S. Census geocoder (street-range interpolation, 2026-10-05); good to a few hundred feet. A street address placed along its block; good to a few hundred feet. ## Nearby - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 0.3 mi north - [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 0.3 mi north - [Carlson-Frink creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/): 0.4 mi north - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 0.4 mi north - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 0.9 mi southwest - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 1.7 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Gammon house - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/ - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1215, -104.1683 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Twelve-room house built in 1905 by Lem Gammon, who opened Ramah's first store and his own bank after the Rock Island came and was in the legislature by 1908 (PPLD record of survey A38). ## Where it was 10 S. Commercial Street, Ramah (PPLD record of survey photo A38), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 0.1 mi east - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 0.2 mi east - [Simla](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/simla/): 4.7 mi east - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 6.7 mi west - [Big Sandy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/): 7.0 mi west - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 8.8 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Genoa - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/genoa/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Lincoln County, Colorado - Point: 39.2783, -103.5002 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Genoa, 1893 to today; mail later sent to Limon Station - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Lincoln County east of Limon. Probably outside. Today: Town of Genoa ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 203757 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lake/): 8.2 mi west - [Limon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/limon/): 10.3 mi west - [River Bend](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/river-bend/): 15.6 mi west - [Cedar Point](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-point/): 20.3 mi west - [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 26.5 mi west - [Agate](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/): 26.8 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Gile's ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/ - Also known as: Spring Valley stage station and post office (1877) - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1552, -104.7606 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Joseph F. Gile's ranch: the Spring Valley stage station of the 1860s and the post office in 1877. John Irion's fort of the 1860s is put 'about a mile south of Giles Ranch' (Scott's trail map, Sec. 34); not placed. ## Where it was Center of the NE1/4, Sec. 27, T10S R66W: 'Gile's claim in NE 1/4 of sec 27' (1866 survey notes, as transcribed in the Larkspur binder) and the post office site report signed by J. F. Gile, Feb. 28, 1877 ('North-East quarter of Section No. 27'). Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 0.5 mi northwest - [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 0.6 mi west - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 0.7 mi northeast - [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 0.7 mi southwest - [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 0.7 mi north - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.3 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Glade - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/ - Also known as: Glade switch; Glade school (District No. 25) - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2967, -104.8767 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know D&RG station and sidetrack; 'Principally stock-raising. The surrounding country is timbered and bluffy' (Crofutt 1881). Glade School District No. 25: a school in the Glade district by 1883; a new schoolhouse built by John Harris in summer 1893. George Upton ground grain and kept a blacksmith shop 'at his ranche opposite Glade switch'; the Glade Nursery sold seed potatoes; the Santa Fe built a switch at Glade (about 1902) for a fire-clay deposit southwest of J. D. Wilson's home (Castle Rock Journal items, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 pp. 384, 401-402). Tomah, on the Santa Fe, is under a mile northwest. ## Where it was Center of Sec. 3, T9S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('RR stop on D&RGW. 4 mi N of Larkspur'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. 'Glade, a sidetrack about five miles south of Castle Rock' (Castle Rock Journal, as copied in the Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 384); 'thirty-eight miles south from Denver' (Crofutt 1881), five more than Castle Rock's 33 (1875 directory). The section center is 5.2 miles south of downtown Castle Rock. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 0.8 mi northwest - [Crull-Hammond cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/): 2.1 mi southwest - [Huntsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/): 2.2 mi southwest - [Sawmill on the 1866 survey](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/): 2.6 mi south - [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 2.7 mi south - [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 3.0 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Glen Grove - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2605, -104.9511 (stand-in point) - Post office: Glen Grove, 1869–1877 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO Nov. 29, 1869 to July 24, 1877. ## Where it was USGS GNIS School 185129, Glen Grove School site The official point of a school, cemetery or store of the same name, standing in for the place itself. ## Nearby - [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 0.4 mi northwest - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 0.5 mi north - [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 0.7 mi southeast - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 0.8 mi northwest - [Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/): 1.5 mi south - [Perry Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/): 2.2 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Glen Grove Cemetery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/ - Also known as: Quick; Sinclair - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2678, -104.9619 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know On a hill west of Perry Park Road in Sec. 14, T9S R68W, on land Ben Quick gave; the earliest stone is Susan Quick's (March 23, 1866) (Larkspur Historical Society binder 10 pp. 113, 118). The Colorado Cemetery Names Project form gives the same point as GNIS. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Cemetery 185127 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 0.4 mi southeast - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 0.6 mi east - [Glen Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove/): 0.8 mi southeast - [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 1.5 mi southeast - [Perry Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/): 1.8 mi southwest - [Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/): 2.1 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Glen Park - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-park/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1144, -104.9203 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Chautauqua grounds at Palmer Lake (from 1887); a D&RG station by 1906. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193235 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rocky-mountain-chautauqua-grounds/): 0.2 mi northeast - [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.3 mi north - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.3 mi north - [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.4 mi north - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.5 mi northeast - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.5 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Gleneagle - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gleneagle/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0453, -104.8244 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Modern community. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 1867084 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 1.1 mi southwest - [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 1.6 mi west - [Black Forest Baptist Assembly](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-baptist-assembly/): 1.7 mi northeast - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 1.7 mi east - [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 1.9 mi southwest - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 2.2 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Gomer's Mill - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gomers-mill/ - Also known as: the Kiowa Mill; P. P. Gomer's sawmills - Kind: Sawmills - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.1601, -104.5373 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know P. P. Gomer's sawmills, 'considered the largest in the State' in the 1870s; the post office 'at Gomer's Mills' opened June 13, 1870 and became Elbert in 1882, when the business moved to the railroad. S. C. Stout was tie inspector here from 1869. Andrew Peterson was shot near Gomer's Mill by Evan Hall in 1872 (von Ahlefeldt p. 73). ## Where it was 'Gomers Mill 1864': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet). Sec. 22, T10S R64W. 4.6 miles from Scott's Bijou Basin point, against 'five miles from Bijou Basin' (1870); 10 miles north-northeast of the first Easton post office, against 'about eight miles north-east of Easton' (fire reports, 1874, 1876); 'on the head of Kiowa Creek' (Crofutt). Place Names of Colorado's Sec. 15, T10S R62W does not fit any of them. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Barnwell](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/barnwell/): 0.9 mi north - [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 4.1 mi north - [Bijou Basin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-basin/): 4.6 mi east - [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 4.8 mi southwest - [Clermont](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/clermont/): 5.1 mi west - [Cheese Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cheese-ranch/): 5.6 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Grandview Ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0708, -104.5757 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Stone ranch house with three-foot walls (about 1910), a 1920s horse-and-mule barn painted 'Grandview Ranch / 2120 Acres', a three-story dairy barn and a stone potato cellar that held six to eight thousand bushels; the house and barn were gone by 2026, per the library's cataloger (PPLD records of survey B10; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 23). The Whitmore brothers homesteaded it in the late 1880s (2,000-plus acres, 'about a mile and a half from' Eastonville) and left in 1899. John Evans built its barns. In 1975 the land became Woodlake subdivision, and the headquarters and barns went to the El Paso County Park District (von Ahlefeldt pp. 29, 70, 76, 90). That conflicts with the PPLD cataloger's 2026 note that the house and barn are gone. ## Where it was '1/4 mile west of Eastonville Road on the south side of' Hodgen Road (PPLD records of survey photos B10); measured from the Hodgen-Eastonville crossing in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 0.8 mi south - [Eastonville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/): 1.0 mi southeast - [Billy Paul barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/billy-paul-barn/): 1.4 mi northwest - [Fagan's Grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fagans-grave/): 2.8 mi northwest - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 3.6 mi southwest - [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 4.1 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Granger - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/granger/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9623, -104.5805 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Denver & New Orleans station between Eastonville and Falcon; PO Jan. 12, 1883 to Dec. 13, 1888, mail to Falcon. ## Where it was Center of Sec. 32, T12S R64W, from Place Names of Colorado ('RR Post Office on C&S 1883-1888. 6 mi SW of Peyton'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. Judy von Ahlefeldt's 1979 Black Forest map puts Granger on the railroad within about a mile of it. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 2.5 mi southwest - [Ayer Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/): 3.4 mi north - [Weir's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/): 3.8 mi northwest - [Brush Corral](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/): 3.9 mi northwest - [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 3.9 mi north - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 4.4 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Green Mountain Falls - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/green-mountain-falls/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County / Teller County, Colorado - Point: 38.935, -105.0169 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Green Mountain Falls, 1888 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Ute Pass. Probably outside. Today: Town of Green Mountain Falls ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 191196 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Cascade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade/): 3.6 mi southeast - [Woodland Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodland-park/): 4.6 mi northwest - [Divide (Teller County)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/divide-teller-county/): 7.6 mi west - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 8.7 mi east - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 9.2 mi northeast - [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 9.7 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Greenland - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1825, -104.8553 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Greenland, 1873–1959 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO June 3, 1873 (Alvarado Arnold) to March 31, 1959; D&RG station 47 miles from Denver; 'To the eastward, five miles, is Spring Valley' (Crofutt 1881); later the Greenland Ranch headquarters (Kountze from 1886; Higbys from 1909). County open space since 1996-97. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193187. Townsite platted by Fred Z. Salomon, Sept. 28, 1875: W1/2 SE NE and E1/2 SW NE, Sec. 14, T10S R67W (abstract of title). The post office stayed in Sec. 14 from 1873 to 1959. GNIS's point is inside the platted quarter. The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Greenland Ranch headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland-ranch-headquarters/): 0.4 mi north - [Spruce](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spruce/): 2.2 mi southwest - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 2.6 mi northwest - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 2.9 mi northwest - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 3.3 mi northwest - [Carlson-Frink creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/): 3.5 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Greenland Ranch headquarters - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland-ranch-headquarters/ - Also known as: the Home Ranch of the Greenland Stock Farm - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.188, -104.8555 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Headquarters of the Greenland Ranch: large house 1884, small house 1894; owned by Charles B. Kountze from 1886 and the Higby family from 1909. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 193188. The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Greenland](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland/): 0.4 mi south - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 2.4 mi west - [Spruce](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spruce/): 2.5 mi southwest - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 2.7 mi northwest - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 3.0 mi northwest - [Carlson-Frink creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/): 3.2 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Gwillimville - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville/ - Also known as: Gwillimsville; Gwillensville; Bryn Mawr - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1, -104.774 (approximate (Wikipedia)) - Post office: Gwillimville, 1878–1890; Gwillimsville, 1878–1890; mail later sent to Monument - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwillimsville,_Colorado - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Welsh settlement at the head of West Cherry Creek. Gwillim left Wales about 1869, and his first crop here, in 1871, was 'the beginning of Gwillimville' (Hayes 1879). Cheese factory (1877 or 1878); 75 Welsh colonists in 1879; school dedicated June 11, 1882; church 1893; PO 1878-1890, mail to Monument. 'Bryn Mawr' was the name of Richard J. Gwillim's farm next door (Carrigan 2020). Diphtheria killed children in nearly every family in January 1880 (Gwen Gwillim Clark, in von Ahlefeldt 1979). Richard's house burned in 1895, and the settlement had faded by about 1900. A log cabin and a hay shed said to date from the town still stand on a ranch here (Searle, Tribune, 2019-21). The schoolhouse was moved into Monument about 1930 and out to Highway 105 in 1985, where it still stands as the Chamber's meeting house (Lavelett's 1985 letter, quoted by Carrigan; Our Community News, 2023 and 2026). ## Where it was Wikipedia (approximate). Place Names of Colorado puts it in Sec. 10, T11S R66W, '6 mi E of Monument'; that section's center is about three-quarters of a mile from this point. 1878-79 newspapers: 'five miles distant' from Monument and 'about five miles east of the railroad'. G. R. Gwillim's first patent (Sept. 10, 1873; Sec. 9, T11S R66W, S1/2 SE and NE SE) is about a third of a mile from this point. Charlie Searle (Tribune, 2019) puts the springs at the head of West Cherry Creek 'just north and south of Highway 105 and a half-mile west of Highway 83'. Highway 105 ends at 83 where Walker Road begins, so the 'Walker Road and 83' and '105 and 83' placings in later accounts are the same crossing. Wikipedia's coordinates; approximate, and still to be confirmed. ## Nearby - [Gwillimville church site (1893)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-church-site-1893/): 0.1 mi northeast - [Pat Murphy homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pat-murphy-homestead/): 0.3 mi east - [Pettigrew Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/): 0.9 mi south - [Steppler potato cellar](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/): 2.4 mi southeast - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 2.7 mi south - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 3.0 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Gwillimville church site (1893) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-church-site-1893/ - Kind: Churches - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1008, -104.7717 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The Welsh community's church, dedicated in 1893 by Chancellor Buchtel of Denver University and Elder Rader of Pueblo; services had been held in the schoolhouse until then. It stood on land given by J. J. Pettigrew. In 1979 only 'the crumbling stone foundation of the church' was 'barely visible in the grass' (von Ahlefeldt pp. 42-45). Whether anything survives today is not known. ## Where it was 'Built on the northwest corner of (Highway) 105 and Highway 83' (Lucille Lavelett, letter of March 15, 1985, quoted by Rob Carrigan, 2015 and 2020); PLHS also puts it 'at Highways 105 and 83'. Placed just inside that corner of the junction in OpenStreetMap; the corner itself rests on Lavelett alone. Good to a few hundred feet. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Pat Murphy homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pat-murphy-homestead/): 0.1 mi east - [Gwillimville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville/): 0.1 mi southwest - [Pettigrew Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/): 1.0 mi south - [Steppler potato cellar](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/): 2.3 mi southeast - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 2.8 mi southwest - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.8 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Gwillimville schoolhouse (now the Chamber's meeting house) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-schoolhouse-now-the-chambers-meeting-house/ - Also known as: Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce Community Meeting House; C.E. Building - Kind: Schools - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0938, -104.8637 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The Gwillimville school, dedicated June 11, 1882, moved four times: from its first site about 1.5 miles north of Highway 105 to a spot near 105; into Monument in the late 1920s or early 1930s, south of the Presbyterian Church, as a Sunday school; and here in April 1985 as the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce office (Lavelett's 1985 letter, quoted by Carrigan; von Ahlefeldt p. 45). The Chamber moved to 166 Second Street in 2015 and later reopened this building as its community meeting house, in use in July 2023 and spring 2026 (Our Community News). Searle (2019) notes the accounts do not make clear whether this is the 1882 building or a later one on the second site. ## Where it was 300 West Highway 105, 'NE corner of I-25 and 105' (Our Community News calendars, 2025-26); El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-06), on parcel 7114200048, owned by the Town of Monument. Searle (2019) puts it 'across the street from 7-Eleven'; OpenStreetMap's 7-Eleven is about 300 feet west. A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.4 mi west - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.5 mi southwest - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.5 mi southwest - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.5 mi west - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.5 mi west - [Monument Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-cemetery/): 0.5 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Hand ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/ - Also known as: site of the Kearney-Hand murders, 1888 - Kind: Murders, lynchings and killings - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9634, -104.8591 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Mary Jane Kearney and her grandson Jamie Hand were killed here about March 30, 1888; the ranch lay 'a mile and a half northwest of Edgerton station' (newspapers, 1888). Ida M. Hand was probably the boy's mother (an inference: the papers name her only as Mrs. Hand). ## Where it was Ida M. Hand's patented land (Oct. 10, 1882), the central 160 acres of Sec. 35, T12S R67W (E1/2 NW, SW NE, NE SW). Center of those parcels; good to about half a mile. A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 1.1 mi east - [Edgerton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/): 1.3 mi east - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 2.1 mi north - [Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/): 2.5 mi southeast - [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 3.9 mi southeast - [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 4.1 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/ - Also known as: Doyle Ice Company - Kind: Ice harvesting - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0902, -104.878 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know William Doyle and Thomas Hanks leased the lake, then the State Reservoir, in 1901; the first icehouse was of Black Forest lumber from J. W. Higby's sawmill. Doyle bought out Hanks in 1909 and built five houses with steam-driven conveyors (Hugo and Charlie Schubarth's threshing engine) and a railroad spur. A west wind flattened the houses on Dec. 31, 1909 and again in 1943, when the Monument harvest ended. In good years 20,000 to 30,000 tons were cut, 4,000 stored and the rest shipped to Pueblo and Denver; Doyle lost the business to American Refrigerator Transit in 1932 after warm winters broke his contract (PLHS). ## Where it was 'Wm. Doyle owned the land on the east side of the lake. They built the original icehouse with a short chute to carry the ice from the lake' (PLHS 'Hanks and Doyle Ice Company'); the east shore of Monument Lake in OpenStreetMap, beside the railroad. Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.3 mi east - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.3 mi east - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.3 mi east - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.4 mi east - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.4 mi northeast - [McShane's stone fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/): 0.5 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Hardesty Ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0521, -104.7935 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Ranch whose grain silo was photographed in 1976; the silo was gone by 2026, per the library's cataloger (PPLD record of survey B34). George Hardesty bought part of the old Allen Ranch; the Community Church's Hardesty Hall is named for the family (von Ahlefeldt pp. 91, 102; Ellett p. 46). ## Where it was 1885 Spring Valley Drive (PPLD record of survey photo B34), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 0.8 mi north - [Lazy M-D log cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lazy-m-d-log-cabin/): 1.4 mi southeast - [Black Forest Baptist Assembly](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-baptist-assembly/): 1.4 mi northwest - [Bassett's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bassetts-mill/): 1.5 mi east - [Shamrock Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/shamrock-ranch/): 1.5 mi southeast - [S. C. Stout ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/s-c-stout-ranch/): 1.5 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Hargisville - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.4225, -104.3523 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Post office: Hargisville, 1908–1915; mail later sent to Kiowa - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Post office 1908-1915 'in a country store' (Place Names of Colorado), on Scott's Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express line. ## Where it was 'Hargisville 1908': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 20, T7S R62W, 'Rural Post Office 1908-1915. 8 mi NE of Kiowa. In a country store.'; this point is 0.37 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 7.8 mi southwest - [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 7.9 mi southwest - [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 9.5 mi south - [Wolfcreek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolfcreek/): 9.8 mi north - [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 10.5 mi south - [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 10.6 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Higby Store - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/ - Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950 - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0917, -104.8725 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Two-story frame store of about 1890; the Higby family ran it from 1900 for 67 years. 'General Merchandise' was still faintly painted on it in 1976, when it housed the Lewis-Palmer Youth Center (PPLD records of survey B64). ## Where it was 105 Second Street, at 2nd and Washington (PPLD records of survey photos B64), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.0 mi west - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.1 mi northeast - [Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/): 0.3 mi west - [McShane's stone fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/): 0.4 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Hilltop - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hilltop/ - Also known as: Hill Top - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.4517, -104.6814 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Hill Top, 1890–1896; Hilltop, 1890–1944 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO 1890-1943; a D&NO post village (1906). North edge. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 185104 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [The Pinery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/the-pinery/): 2.8 mi west - [Ponderosa Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ponderosa-park/): 3.4 mi southeast - [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 4.7 mi east - [Pikes Peak Grange hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikes-peak-grange-hall/): 5.2 mi southwest - [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 5.6 mi southwest - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 5.6 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Holtwold - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/holtwold/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 38.9414, -104.0533 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Holtwold, 1889–1917 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO 1889-1902, 1910-17. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 193395 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Rush](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rush/): 7.3 mi south - [Kutch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kutch/): 10.1 mi east - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 12.6 mi northwest - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 13.8 mi northwest - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 13.9 mi northwest - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 13.9 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Howey's store - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/howeys-store/ - Also known as: Brown's store; Glover's Corner - Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950 - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9983, -104.7004 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Albert Howey, who ran a sawmill at this corner from the 1940s to 1952 until he lost an arm in it, built the store in 1950 (von Ahlefeldt pp. 96, 114) or about 1955 (Ellett p. 10) and ran it with his wife Wilma for about five years. 'Later Wilma married Alvin Brown and they ran the store another three years' (Ellett pp. 10, 22). This is the 'Brown's store' whose owner, Alvin Brown, spoke at the 1965 zoning hearing (Gazette, Sept. 3, 1965). The Glovers then ran it ten or twelve years, as Glover's Corner, and it closed in 1987. Gilbert Tevebaugh's late-1940s mill stood at the same corner, 'where the Black Forest Lumber Yard is now' (Ellett p. 65; von Ahlefeldt p. 114). ## Where it was 'On the corner of Black Forest and Burgess Roads' (Ellett p. 10; von Ahlefeldt p. 96); that junction in OpenStreetMap. Which corner is not stated. Good to a few hundred feet. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Burrows Cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/): 0.5 mi northwest - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.7 mi north - [Indian Doctor's Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/indian-doctors-place/): 1.0 mi south - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 1.0 mi north - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 1.0 mi north - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 1.0 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Hungate site (1864) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hungate-site-1864/ - Also known as: Van Wormer ranch - Kind: Forts, raids and the Indian wars - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.561, -104.5365 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Nathan and Ellen Hungate and their daughters Laura and Florence were killed here on June 11, 1864; the killings set off the panic of that summer and became the stated pretext for Sand Creek. On the Elbert-Arapahoe line, 14 miles north of Elizabeth: inside the research box at its northern edge (N flag). Scott's 1999 trail map marks 'Hungate Massacre June 18, 1864' within 0.1 mile of this point (S-0106); note his date, June 18, against June 11. ## Where it was NE 1/4 of Sec. 3, T6S R64W (Broome 2004, from his fieldwork); Burkey (1935, guided by Van Wormer's daughter): 'about one hundred yards south of the county line', east of Running Creek. Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 8.4 mi south - [Wolfcreek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolfcreek/): 8.6 mi east - [Hilltop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hilltop/): 10.8 mi southwest - [Running Creek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/): 12.1 mi south - [Ponderosa Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ponderosa-park/): 12.2 mi southwest - [The Pinery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/the-pinery/): 12.8 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Huntsville - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/ - Also known as: the 1869 post office (Crull) - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2678, -104.8953 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Post office: Huntsville, 1860–1871 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Larkspur's predecessor. PO from March 24, 1860; reopened Jan. 22, 1862 under D. C. Oakes; closed Aug. 29, 1867; reopened under Crull April 8, 1869; renamed Larkspur Dec. 13, 1871, when the office moved to the railroad. Hiram P. Bennet's 1862 application says an older Huntsville two miles west had been abandoned after a failed water mill (Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 408, via a digest; not yet). ## Where it was Center of Sec. 16, T9S R67W: the post office site report signed by William Crull, May 1869, gives 'Huntsville … Section No. 16, in Township nine' south, nearest creek 'Plum', Monument 12 miles southerly (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 58, OCR; the range is illegible in the OCR). Good to about half a mile. The 1866 survey puts a road, the People's Fort and a sawmill on the south line of Sec. 16 (Pierce, Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 120); local accounts put Huntsville 'at the clay pits, two miles north of Larkspur' (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 pp. 20, 24, via a helper's digest). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Crull-Hammond cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/): 0.3 mi northwest - [Sawmill on the 1866 survey](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/): 0.5 mi south - [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 0.5 mi south - [Glade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/): 2.2 mi northeast - [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 2.4 mi north - [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 2.7 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Husted - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/ - Also known as: East and West Husted - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0203, -104.8403 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Post office: Husted, 1878–1920 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know D&RG station and C. R. Husted's sawmill (1875); 'Husted station, six miles below' Henry's and 'thirteen miles' above Colorado Springs (News, 1873); the Southwater post office, a mile north, moved here and took the name Husted at the end of 1878 (PO 1878-1895 and 1896-1920); the Aug. 14, 1909 collision. Gone, on Air Force Academy land. ## Where it was Center of Sec. 12, T12S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('RR Post Office on D&RG 1878-1920'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. Judy von Ahlefeldt's 1979 map of the Black Forest puts Husted within about a mile of it, and PLHS places it near the Academy's north entrance. Wikipedia's point (38.991, -104.833) is two miles farther south. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 1.0 mi north - [Gleneagle](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gleneagle/): 1.9 mi northeast - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 2.2 mi southwest - [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 2.4 mi north - [Borst](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/): 3.2 mi north - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 3.3 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Indian Doctor's Place - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/indian-doctors-place/ - Also known as: Yosemite Nabona's sanatorium - Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950 - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9843, -104.7003 (street address, interpolated (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Sanatorium run in the late 1920s by Yosemite Nabona, whom the library's record calls a Navajo doctor: ten buildings on five acres, including a nurses' dormitory and a 35-by-70-foot main building (PPLD records of survey B21; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 21). Yosemite Nabona came about 1928 (Ellett), after a hurricane wrecked his Florida sanatorium (von Ahlefeldt). The Trumps gave the land: five acres (von Ahlefeldt) or two, with three more bought (Ellett). A 1929 Gazette article put spending at $60,000. He left in the early 1930s over 'marital troubles' (von Ahlefeldt p. 84), or was 'run out of town' in 1934 for practicing without a license (Ellett p. 24). The place was a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, the 'Black Forest Camp', in 1935-36, then a camp for transient girls (Ellett p. 25). ## Where it was 10525 Black Forest Road, 'just south of Tobin Road' (PPLD records of survey photos B21); El Paso County street-range interpolation (2026-10-05), which falls 115 m south of the Tobin Road crossing in OpenStreetMap, as the record says. Good to a few hundred feet. A street address placed along its block; good to a few hundred feet. ## Nearby - [Howey's store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/howeys-store/): 1.0 mi north - [Burrows Cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/): 1.4 mi north - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 1.7 mi north - [La Foret](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/la-foret/): 1.9 mi northwest - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 1.9 mi north - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 2.0 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Inez J. Lewis School - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/ - Kind: Schools - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0907, -104.8711 (street address, interpolated (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Two-story brick school of 1920 by Thomas MacLaren (spelled MacLauren in the library's record), named for county superintendent Inez Johnson Lewis; it replaced Monument's three-room school and took in five neighboring schools. Later School District 38's administration building (PPLD record of survey B70). ## Where it was 146 N. Jefferson Street (PPLD record of survey photo B70), El Paso County street-range interpolation (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address placed along its block; good to a few hundred feet. ## Nearby - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.0 mi southwest - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.2 mi north - [Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/): 0.4 mi west - [Santa Fe stone arch bridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-stone-arch-bridge/): 0.4 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # J. G. Evans barn - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/j-g-evans-barn/ - Also known as: Evans Ranch - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0717, -104.6903 (National Register coordinates) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Midwestern three-portal barn, 46 by 60 feet, built in 1885 by John G. Evans, an Iowan who came in 1884; one of the few barns left from the early settlement period. National Register, 2004. Still standing and visible from Hodgen Road (local observation, 2026). The site also has a windmill missing its blades and a metal tank (Wikipedia). The Evans ranch house is across Hodgen Road at 7315 (PPLD record; survey site B16). ## Where it was National Register site 04000624 (2004), at the coordinates in the Wikipedia article (revision 1373428549, S-0107). That puts it about 55 m north of Hodgen Road in OpenStreetMap, which agrees with local observation (2026: north of Hodgen, still standing) and with the PPLD record (the ranch house is 'to the south across the road'). The county address point for 7195 Hodgen Road, used before, falls on the south side. The coordinates published with the National Register of Historic Places listing. ## Nearby - [Fairview School and Evans stage stop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fairview-school-and-evans-stage-stop/): 0.1 mi southwest - [McConnell homestead (1882)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcconnell-homestead-1882/): 0.9 mi northwest - [Steppler potato cellar](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/): 2.5 mi west - [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 2.7 mi southeast - [Brentwood Country Club gateway](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brentwood-country-club-gateway/): 2.8 mi south - [Dreamland Country Club](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dreamland-country-club/): 2.9 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Jimmy Camp - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/ - Also known as: Manitou Junction - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.8528, -104.6654 (approximate (Wikipedia)) - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy's_Camp,_Colorado - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Jimmy Camp / Manitou Junction on the D&NO. ## Where it was Wikipedia (approximate) Wikipedia's coordinates; approximate, and still to be confirmed. ## Nearby - [Jimmy Camp spring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/): 0.2 mi northeast - [McFerran coal mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/): 0.6 mi east - [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 4.9 mi southeast - [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 5.0 mi southeast - [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 6.3 mi northeast - [Lindamood Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/): 6.4 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Jimmy Camp spring - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/ - Also known as: Jimmy's Camp - Kind: Springs and water works - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.8549, -104.6631 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The camp of the 1830s trader Jimmy (Daugherty or Hays) in a sheltered valley with running water; the Jimmy Camp Trail is named for it. Marcy came up the trail in 1858 and the Green Russell party passed the same year (von Ahlefeldt p. 19; Scott, I-930 report). ## Where it was 'Jimmy Camp spring', the end of Scott's Jimmy Camp Trail on his 1975 Pueblo sheet (USGS I-930, S-0105), read from the reprojected sheet; good to a few hundred feet. The 1976 county survey photographed 'Jimmy Camp Spring … 12 miles East of Colorado Springs and just south of Highway 24' (PPLD record, S-0101). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 0.2 mi southwest - [McFerran coal mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/): 0.6 mi southeast - [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 4.9 mi southeast - [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 5.0 mi southeast - [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 6.1 mi northeast - [Lindamood Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/): 6.3 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/ - Also known as: Indian raid at Spring Valley - Kind: Forts, raids and the Indian wars - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1655, -104.7636 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 'Two men were killed at Spring Valley, and two horses stolen; and two men were killed at Buzzard's station. One of those killed at Spring Valley was Jotham Lincoln … He was binding oats when the Indians rode up to him and shot him down. They ran off thirteen horses' (Rocky Mountain News, Sept. 5, 1868). The three raiders 'were riding along the stage road' (News, Sept. 11); the stage line's own horses were taken at Spring Valley (Weekly News, Sept. 9). No election was held at Spring Valley that month. ## Where it was Placed at GNIS's Lincoln Ranch (Locale), 0.7 mile north of the Spring Valley store site. The dispatch says only 'at Spring Valley'; that GNIS's Lincoln Ranch is Jotham Lincoln's field is a guess, so treat the point as 'Spring Valley, within about a mile'. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 0.5 mi southwest - [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.7 mi south - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 0.9 mi southeast - [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 1.0 mi southwest - [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 1.3 mi south - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.9 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Katrina Murat cottage - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/katrina-murat-cottage/ - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1235, -104.9205 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Last home of Katrina Murat (1824-1919), whom the library's record calls 'the first European woman in Denver' and the maker of 'the first United States flag in Colorado'; she came to Palmer Lake about 1887 (PPLD record of survey B46). ## Where it was 'At Glenarm and Highland Road in Palmer Lake' (PPLD record of survey photo B46); that junction in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05). The record's biography puts her cottage in Glen Park, south of town; the 1976 location is used. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/): 0.2 mi southeast - [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.2 mi south - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.3 mi south - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.3 mi southeast - [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Kelker - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kelker/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.7958, -104.7814 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Kelker, 1912–1914 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Little beyond its location so far. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193533 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Roswell](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/roswell/): 5.8 mi north - [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 7.4 mi northeast - [Jimmy Camp spring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/): 7.6 mi northeast - [McFerran coal mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/): 7.8 mi northeast - [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 8.5 mi north - [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 10.0 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Kiowa - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/ - Also known as: Middle Kiowa; Wendling - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.3472, -104.4644 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Kiowa, 1868 to today; Running Creek, 1868–1883; mail later sent to Elizabeth - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Smoky Hill Trail stage stop called Middle Kiowa; Elbert County seat from 1874; incorporated Aug. 20, 1912. The 1875 and 1877 directories give its office as Running Creek P.O. Today: Town of Kiowa ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 185146 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 0.2 mi north - [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 5.1 mi southeast - [Elizabeth](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/): 7.1 mi west - [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 7.9 mi northeast - [Running Creek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/): 8.2 mi northwest - [Elbert](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elbert/): 9.7 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/ - Also known as: four accused horse thieves hanged - Kind: Murders, lynchings and killings - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.35, -104.464 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Tip and Joshua Marion, Dick Thompson and Jerry Wilson, bound over for trial on horse-stealing charges, were taken from the sheriff at Middle Kiowa by about fifty masked men and hanged in pairs, still shackled (Rocky Mountain News, Aug. 27, 1874). ## Where it was Placed just north of the Kiowa marker: the men were taken 'to a grove a mile from town'; the direction is not given. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 0.2 mi south - [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 5.2 mi southeast - [Elizabeth](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/): 7.1 mi west - [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 7.8 mi northeast - [Running Creek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/): 8.1 mi west - [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 9.6 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Kuhns Crossing - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/ - Also known as: Kuhn's Crossing - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.2819, -104.1241 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Kuhns Crossing, 1879–1920; mail later sent to Simla - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Named for Charles E. Kuhn, who took up a ranch in 1874 (obituary, 1909); 'On East Bijou Creek' (Crofutt 1881); in 1885 Kuhn and partners had 5,000 acres under fence and controlled 50,000 of public land. The X K ranch went to the Bijou Ranch Co. in 1900, and its 35,000 deeded acres to a Kansas City syndicate in 1906 for farms; steam plows by 1909. PO 1879-1920, mail to Simla. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 185154. Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 8, T9S R60W, '18 mi W of River Bend', within half a mile of GNIS's point; a post route 'From River Bend to Kuhn's Crossing' was set up in 1879. The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Norton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/): 5.9 mi west - [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 9.2 mi west - [Simla](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/simla/): 9.9 mi south - [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 11.0 mi southeast - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 11.2 mi south - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 11.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Kutch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kutch/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 38.9105, -103.8694 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Kutch, 1899–1971; mail later sent to Ramah - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO 1899, 1905-71, mail to Ramah. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 195162 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Holtwold](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/holtwold/): 10.1 mi west - [Rush](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rush/): 12.9 mi west - [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 18.9 mi north - [Simla](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/simla/): 19.7 mi northwest - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 21.6 mi northwest - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 21.6 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # La Foret - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/la-foret/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0094, -104.7144 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Bemis Taylor's estate, later a retreat. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193292 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Burrows Cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/): 0.7 mi southeast - [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.8 mi east - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.8 mi east - [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.8 mi east - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.8 mi east - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.8 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Lake - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lake/ - Also known as: Lake Station - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Lincoln County, Colorado - Point: 39.2425, -103.6455 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Kansas Pacific station; 'no cultivated lands' (Crofutt 1881). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 195135 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Limon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/limon/): 2.9 mi northwest - [Genoa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/genoa/): 8.2 mi east - [River Bend](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/river-bend/): 8.5 mi west - [Cedar Point](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-point/): 14.0 mi northwest - [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 18.3 mi west - [Agate](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/): 21.9 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Larkspur - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/ - Also known as: Huntsville; Clay Pit - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2286, -104.8872 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Huntsville, 1860–1871; Larkspur, 1871 to today; mail later sent to Perry Park - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Huntsville PO from March 24, 1860 (three spells); Larkspur PO from Dec. 13, 1871; D&RG station 43 miles south of Denver (1875). Huntsville's own site is not yet placed. Today: Town of Larkspur ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193176 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 0.1 mi east - [Carlson-Frink creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/): 0.2 mi east - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 0.3 mi south - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 1.2 mi south - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 2.0 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Larkspur School (1896) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/ - Also known as: now the Larkspur post office - Kind: Schools - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2288, -104.885 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 'Originally a one-room brick schoolhouse built in 1896', enlarged 1932 and 1959; 'The Larkspur Post Office is in the building that was built and first used as the Larkspur Elementary School' (binder statements of 1998 and about 2007). Placed at GNIS's post-office point (2013); the 1956 county map's 'School' symbol, georeferenced, falls within 300 feet of it (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 220). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Post Office 2736052 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Carlson-Frink creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/): 0.1 mi east - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 0.1 mi west - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 0.2 mi west - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 0.3 mi south - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 1.2 mi southwest - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 2.0 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Larkspur's first school lot (1872) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/ - Also known as: School District No. 15 - Kind: Schools - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.201, -104.898 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The district's first school site; the schoolhouse was moved into Larkspur in 1889-90. ## Where it was NE1/4 NW1/4 Sec. 9, T10S R67W: 'Morris Blodget did take the patent on NE1/4NW1/4 Section 9-10-67 on 6-10-1872. That quarter section is identified in the school deed recorded 6-29-1872 in Book C Page 29' (Larkspur society email, 2010, Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 305). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Lincoln Fur Farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/): 0.8 mi north - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 1.7 mi northeast - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 2.0 mi north - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 2.0 mi north - [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 2.0 mi north - [Carlson-Frink creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/): 2.1 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Lazy M-D log cabin - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lazy-m-d-log-cabin/ - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0398, -104.7734 (street address, interpolated (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Log cabin of 1923 photographed in the 1976 El Paso County survey (Freed and Barber). ## Where it was Census geocoder (street-range interpolation, 2026-10-05); good to a few hundred feet. A street address placed along its block; good to a few hundred feet. ## Nearby - [Shamrock Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/shamrock-ranch/): 0.2 mi northeast - [S. C. Stout ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/s-c-stout-ranch/): 0.3 mi south - [Bassett's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bassetts-mill/): 0.8 mi northeast - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 1.4 mi northwest - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 1.9 mi northwest - [Black Forest Regional Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-regional-park/): 2.6 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Limon - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/limon/ - Also known as: Limon's Camp; Limon Station - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Lincoln County, Colorado - Point: 39.2639, -103.6922 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Limon Station, 1889–1903; Limon, 1889 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Rock Island division point, March 1888, named for foreman John Limon; junction with the Kansas Pacific; incorporated Oct. 24, 1909. Today: Town of Limon ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 204819 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lake/): 2.9 mi southeast - [River Bend](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/river-bend/): 5.6 mi west - [Genoa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/genoa/): 10.3 mi east - [Cedar Point](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-point/): 11.1 mi northwest - [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 16.4 mi southwest - [Agate](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/): 19.1 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Lincoln Fur Farm - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lincoln-fur-farm/ - Also known as: E. V. McCullough's fox farm - Kind: Fox and fur farms - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2126, -104.8941 (street address, interpolated (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know E. V. McCullough bought the land in 1928 for a pelt business: 80 acres, 100 pens, Platinum, Blue, Silver and 'Pearltina' foxes fed on old horses, cattle and sheep; Melvin Olson sawed the lumber on the place. It closed in 1951, after the government lifted limits on Russian fur imports; 1,000 pelts in New York storage were sold to pay the bill, and an employee's family bought the property. Pure black foxes, whose pelts were worthless, were let go (Danna Hamling, from interviews with Wallace Turner, an employee from 1928; Larkspur Historical Society binder 9 pp. 60-61). Turner's tour of the area calls it 'the McCoullough Fox Farm of old' (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 228); Fox Farm Road is named for a fox farm (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 94). ## Where it was On Fox Farm Road south of Larkspur, near where the road crosses the railroad (Larkspur Historical Society binder 9 p. 60 and Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 228); placed at the property's street address as given in the binders, by U.S. Census street-range interpolation (2026-10-05). Good to a few hundred feet. A street address placed along its block; good to a few hundred feet. ## Nearby - [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 0.8 mi south - [Frink House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frink-house/): 0.9 mi northeast - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 1.2 mi north - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 1.2 mi north - [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 1.2 mi northeast - [Carlson-Frink creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/carlson-frink-creamery/): 1.2 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Lindamood Homestead - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/ - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9391, -104.7083 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Two-story stucco house of about 1900; the Lindamoods were among the earliest homesteaders in the Black Forest area. Gone by 2026, per the library's cataloger (PPLD record of survey B20). ## Where it was 7420 Templeton Gap Road (PPLD record of survey photo B20), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Forest View School site](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/forest-view-school-site/): 0.9 mi northeast - [Indian Doctor's Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/indian-doctors-place/): 3.2 mi north - [Howey's store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/howeys-store/): 4.1 mi north - [Burrows Cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/): 4.5 mi north - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 4.8 mi north - [La Foret](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/la-foret/): 4.9 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Little Log Church - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/ - Kind: Churches - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1219, -104.9191 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know A summer cabin bought in 1925 by the Friends Community Church of Palmer Lake and made into a church, with a second cabin behind it as the parsonage; per the library's record the congregation sponsored the first Yule Log celebration (PPLD record of survey B45). ## Where it was 133 High Street, at High and Glenway (PPLD record of survey photo B45), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/): 0.1 mi east - [Katrina Murat cottage](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/katrina-murat-cottage/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.1 mi southwest - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.2 mi southeast - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.2 mi south - [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.2 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Lone Tree School - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lone-tree-school/ - Also known as: School District No. 17 - Kind: Schools - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3272, -104.9705 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Douglas County School District No. 17 on West Plum Creek, between the Oaklands and Glen Grove schools. The first school was built in 1872 by Newton S. Grout; the second, built in 1922 by Leo Grout and Herbert Stewart 'a short distance away,' still stands; the district joined Sedalia's in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The 1993 building inventory record puts it in the SE1/4 NW1/4 of Sec. 26, T8S R68W, and GNIS's point is inside that quarter-quarter; State Register 5DA344 (1995 letter) (Larkspur Historical Society binder 7 pp. 1, 6 and the 1995 letter). ## Where it was USGS GNIS School 185126 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Coberly's Half-Way House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/coberlys-half-way-house/): 2.5 mi southwest - [St. Philip-in-the-Field](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-philip-in-the-field/): 2.9 mi north - [Oakland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/): 3.1 mi north - [Dakan](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dakan/): 3.7 mi southwest - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 4.1 mi south - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 4.2 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Louviers - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/louviers/ - Also known as: Toluca - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.4778, -105.0072 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Louviers, 1907 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Toluca, renamed Louviers by DuPont in 1908. North edge. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 183350 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Acequia](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/acequia/): 3.4 mi north - [Sedalia](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sedalia/): 3.8 mi southeast - [Oakland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/): 7.9 mi south - [St. Philip-in-the-Field](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-philip-in-the-field/): 8.0 mi south - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 9.9 mi southeast - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 10.3 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Madge Quarry - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/madge-quarry/ - Kind: Mines and quarries - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3432, -104.8547 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Rhyolite quarry on a D&RG spur south of Castle Rock; Scott also marks O'Brien Quarry (spur 1880-1905) and Hathaway nearby. ## Where it was 'Madge Quarry (X)': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 23, T8S R67W, 'Est. by 1916. RR stop on D&RGW. 5 mi S of Castle Rock.'; this point is 0.29 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 1.2 mi west - [Castle Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock/): 2.0 mi north - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 2.7 mi north - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 3.3 mi north - [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 3.4 mi southwest - [Glade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/): 3.4 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Matheson - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/ - Also known as: Mattison - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.1717, -103.9755 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Mattison, 1889–1915; Matheson, 1906 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Rock Island town; PO Mattison 1889, Matheson from 1915. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 195128 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Simla](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/simla/): 6.2 mi west - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 10.7 mi west - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 10.8 mi west - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 10.9 mi west - [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 11.0 mi northwest - [River Bend](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/river-bend/): 12.7 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # McConnell homestead (1882) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcconnell-homestead-1882/ - Also known as: A. B. McConnell of Table Rock - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.082, -104.7003 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Patented three months after 'McConnellsville' (Eastonville's station name) first appears; a link to that name, or to a McConnell sawmill on Judy von Ahlefeldt's map, is unproved. ## Where it was Centroid of A. B. McConnell's patent of Aug. 30, 1882 (E1/2 NE Sec. 19; W1/2 NW Sec. 20, T11S R65W), read from the BLM record (S-0080). The house's spot within the land is unknown. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [J. G. Evans barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/j-g-evans-barn/): 0.9 mi southeast - [Fairview School and Evans stage stop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fairview-school-and-evans-stage-stop/): 0.9 mi southeast - [Steppler potato cellar](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/): 1.8 mi west - [Table Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock/): 2.6 mi north - [Table Rock burial ground (reported)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock-burial-ground-reported/): 2.6 mi north - [Russell Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/): 2.8 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # McFerran coal mines - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcferran-coal-mines/ - Kind: Mines and quarries - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.8503, -104.6547 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Lignite mines reached by a Denver & New Orleans spur (von Ahlefeldt p. 51). Hall's vol. 4 (1895) names a company that owned and operated 'the McFerran coal mines, near Colorado Springs'. McFerran Road in Black Forest carries the name. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Mine 1734078. 'McFerran, five miles northwest of Franceville, is another busy coal mining town, where besides stores, hotels, etc., are well conducted schools'; 'At Franceville and McFerran are mines of lignite coal, which are extensively worked' (Frank Hall, History of the State of Colorado, vol. 3, 1891). GNIS's McFerran and Franceville mines are 4.3 miles apart, northwest-southeast. The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Jimmy Camp spring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp-spring/): 0.6 mi northwest - [Jimmy Camp](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jimmy-camp/): 0.6 mi west - [Franceville coal mine](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville-coal-mine/): 4.3 mi southeast - [Franceville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franceville/): 4.4 mi southeast - [Falcon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/falcon/): 6.2 mi northeast - [Lindamood Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/): 6.8 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # McShane Home - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshane-home/ - Also known as: David McShane's homestead - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0986, -104.8766 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know David McShane's 1865 homestead, 'three miles east of Palmer Lake' (PLHS), where he built the stone round house (the fort) of 1868 nearby; a log bunkhouse on the ranch was photographed in 1976 ('at the north end of Monument near Highway 105'). McShane died May 17, 1907. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 193248 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [McShane's stone fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/): 0.1 mi south - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.5 mi southeast - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.5 mi southeast - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.5 mi southeast - [Monument Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-cemetery/): 0.5 mi east - [Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/): 0.6 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # McShane's stone fort - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/ - Also known as: Old Stone Fort - Kind: Forts, raids and the Indian wars - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0969, -104.8764 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know A refuge in 1865-68 (1950 DAR marker). On Sept. 21, 1868 raiders came to Mr. McShane's house, where 'several women' were alone, and took a picketed horse after Mrs. McShane told them to; the same party burned Walker's house at the head of Monument Creek (Rocky Mountain News, Sept. 22, 1868). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 193249 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [McShane Home](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshane-home/): 0.1 mi north - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.4 mi southeast - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.4 mi southeast - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.4 mi southeast - [Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/): 0.5 mi south - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.5 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Monument - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/ - Also known as: Henry's Station; Dutch Henry's - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0917, -104.8728 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Monument, 1869 to today; Henry's, 1869–? - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO April 8, 1869; D&RG station of fall 1871 first called Henry's Station; plat recorded Jan. 5, 1874; incorporation election June 2, 1879 (McFarling 1958). The 1870 'Monument' was Edgerton. Today: Town of Monument ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 204795 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.0 mi east - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.1 mi southeast - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.1 mi northeast - [Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/): 0.3 mi west - [McShane's stone fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/): 0.4 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Monument Cemetery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-cemetery/ - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1011, -104.8671 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 'In use since 1871', at Beacon Lite Road and 8th Street (PPLD record of the 1976 county survey photo B60); burials include J. G. Evans and the Limbachs. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Cemetery 1834809 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Gwillimville schoolhouse (now the Chamber's meeting house)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-schoolhouse-now-the-chambers-meeting-house/): 0.5 mi south - [McShane Home](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshane-home/): 0.5 mi west - [McShane's stone fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/): 0.6 mi southwest - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.6 mi south - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.7 mi southwest - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.7 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Monument Nursery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-nursery/ - Also known as: Mt. Herman Planting Station - Kind: Cheese factories, creameries and other works - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.085, -104.9053 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Founded 1907 as the Mt. Herman Planting Station (per a CRN post). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 193247 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/): 1.5 mi east - [McShane's stone fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/): 1.8 mi northeast - [McShane Home](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshane-home/): 1.8 mi northeast - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 1.8 mi east - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 1.8 mi east - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 1.8 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Monument Presbyterian Church - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/ - Also known as: Sheldon Jackson Chapel - Kind: Churches - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.093, -104.8711 (mapped feature (OpenStreetMap)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Built in 1881 with vertical barn siding on a stone foundation; now the Sheldon Jackson Chapel of the Monument Community Presbyterian Church, per the library's cataloger (PPLD records of survey B68). From the late 1920s or early 1930s until 1985 the old Gwillimville schoolhouse stood south of the church as its Sunday school and community hall; the Monument Homemakers Club refitted it in 1938-39 (Lavelett's 1985 letter, quoted by Carrigan; von Ahlefeldt p. 45 calls it part of the 'Christian Endeavor Building'). ## Where it was Southeast corner of Jefferson and 3rd streets (PPLD records of survey photos B68); that corner in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05). A feature drawn in OpenStreetMap, such as a park or a lake. ## Nearby - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.1 mi southwest - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.1 mi southwest - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.2 mi south - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.2 mi south - [McShane's stone fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/): 0.4 mi northwest - [Gwillimville schoolhouse (now the Chamber's meeting house)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-schoolhouse-now-the-chambers-meeting-house/): 0.4 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # New Memphis - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/ - Also known as: Citadel station; the Independence colony - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3913, -104.8491 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Post office: New Memphis, 1872–1874 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The 'city' of the 1871 Independence colony, at the D&RG's Citadel station: its streets 'are not yet lighted with gas!' (News, 1872). Thomas S. Harris kept the New Memphis Hotel (1872) and was 'the only occupant' by 1874; the town lost the county-seat contest to Castle Rock, its post office took the Castle Rock name May 18, 1874, and by 1891 it was 'a cornfield, the houses having been moved to the county seat' (Hall). ## Where it was The corner where Secs. 35-36 of T7S R67W meet Secs. 1-2 of T8S R67W. Place Names of Colorado puts New Memphis in Sec. 2, T8S R67W and Citadel station, '1 mi N of Castle Rock', in Sec. 36, T7S R67W; T. S. Harris's estate land 'near New Memphis, some 2 miles north of Castle Rock' lay in Secs. 34-35, T7S R67W (Castle Rock Journal, Aug. 12, 1885). Good to about half a mile. Harris's obituary (1884) puts New Memphis 'about one and one-half miles below' Castle Rock, and Hall (1891) 'two miles from Castle Rock'; this corner is 1.4 miles north of downtown. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Castle Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock/): 1.4 mi south - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 1.5 mi southwest - [Madge Quarry](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/madge-quarry/): 3.3 mi south - [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 3.8 mi southwest - [Pikes Peak Grange hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikes-peak-grange-hall/): 4.8 mi east - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 5.1 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Norton - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/norton/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.3007, -104.2321 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Post office: Norton, 1899–1915 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Post office 1899-1915, southeast of Kiowa; Scott adds '(Stoller)'. ## Where it was 'Norton 1898': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 4, T9S R61W, 'Rural Post Office 1899-1915. 12 mi SE of Kiowa.'; this point is 0.5 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Bijou Creek swing station](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bijou-creek-swing-station/): 3.8 mi southwest - [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 5.9 mi east - [Fondis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fondis/): 8.5 mi southwest - [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 9.3 mi west - [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 10.6 mi northwest - [Claud](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/claud/): 12.2 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Oakland School - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/ - Also known as: Oaklands; District No. 32 - Kind: Schools - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3703, -104.9555 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Oaklands school district north of Lone Tree; the Lone Tree school lay 'about three miles south of Oaklands' (county schools history), and GNIS's two points are 3.0 miles apart. The building has since been moved. ## Where it was USGS GNIS School 185122 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [St. Philip-in-the-Field](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-philip-in-the-field/): 0.3 mi southwest - [Lone Tree School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lone-tree-school/): 3.1 mi south - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 4.5 mi east - [Sedalia](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sedalia/): 4.6 mi north - [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 4.7 mi southeast - [Castle Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock/): 5.3 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Orsburn - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.4474, -104.5927 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Post office: Orsburn, 1885–1896 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Post office 1885-1896 on Running (Box Elder) Creek north of Elizabeth; Scott dates it 1884. ## Where it was 'Orsburn P.O. 1884': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 7, T7S R64W, 'Rural Post Office 1885-1896. 7 mi N of Elizabeth.'; this point is 0.64 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Running Creek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/): 3.7 mi south - [Ponderosa Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ponderosa-park/): 4.1 mi southwest - [Hilltop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hilltop/): 4.7 mi west - [Elizabeth](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/): 6.0 mi south - [The Pinery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/the-pinery/): 7.6 mi west - [Hungate site (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hungate-site-1864/): 8.4 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Paint Mines - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/ - Kind: Native American sites and finds (generalized) - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0188, -104.2662 (mapped feature (OpenStreetMap)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Clay beds that, per the library's record, Plains Indians used for paint and pottery and Van Briggle Pottery later dug (PPLD record of survey A34). An El Paso County park. ## Where it was Paint Mines Interpretive Park, OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05); 'on Paint Mine Road south of Calhan' (PPLD record of survey photo A34). A feature drawn in OpenStreetMap, such as a park or a lake. ## Nearby - [Calhan](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/calhan/): 2.0 mi northwest - [Big Sandy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/): 4.8 mi north - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 6.7 mi north - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 8.8 mi northeast - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 8.9 mi northeast - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 9.0 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Palmer Lake - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/ - Also known as: Summit Lake, Divide Lake; station Divide; PO Weissport, Palmer - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1222, -104.9172 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Weissport, 1875–1887; Palmer, 1887–1912; Palmer Lake, 1887 to today; mail later sent to Monument - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know D&RG station 'Divide'; PO Weissport from July 21, 1875; Thompson's resort platted in the 1880s; Chautauqua at Glen Park from 1887; incorporated Feb. 23, 1889. Today: Town of Palmer Lake ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 204794 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.1 mi west - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.1 mi south - [Katrina Murat cottage](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/katrina-murat-cottage/): 0.2 mi northwest - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.2 mi southwest - [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.2 mi southwest - [D&RG icehouses, Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/d-and-rg-icehouses-palmer-lake/): 0.3 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pat Murphy homestead - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pat-murphy-homestead/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.101, -104.7695 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Patrick Murphy, born in Ireland in 1821, cooked for the Union army and came west after the war. Known for his cakes and pies, he lived here until about World War I and died in 1926 at 105 (von Ahlefeldt pp. 24-26). ## Where it was 'Pat's barn and corrals still stand northeast of the intersection of … County Highway 105 and State Highway 83' (von Ahlefeldt p. 25); that junction in OpenStreetMap. One source; good to about a quarter mile. The 1976 survey's Pettigrew Ranch, a mile south, says Murphy and Pettigrew homesteaded together in 1869. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Gwillimville church site (1893)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-church-site-1893/): 0.1 mi west - [Gwillimville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville/): 0.3 mi west - [Pettigrew Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/): 1.0 mi south - [Steppler potato cellar](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/): 2.2 mi southeast - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.7 mi northeast - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 2.8 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # People's Fort (1864) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/ - Also known as: Oakes' Folly; Fort Lincoln; Fort Oakes; the clay-pit fort - Kind: Forts, raids and the Indian wars - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2606, -104.8953 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know D. C. Oakes's log stockade, begun in 1860 about 25 yards south of his sawmill and finished by the settlers in three days in August 1864; 25-30 families sheltered there for about three weeks (Olive Oakes, as summarized on a draft panel, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 378). Used again in 1868. ## Where it was General Land Office field notes, T9S R67W, W. H. Pierce, deputy surveyor, survey completed June 29, 1866, p. 93: running east on the line between Secs. 21 and 16 from the corner of Secs. 20, 21, 16 and 17, '40. Set temporary 1/4 sec cor … 40.05 Road, course N. 20° W. … 40.08 Peoples' Fort 7 lks S of line … 51.50 Saw mill 2 ch N. of line … 52.90 Plum Creek 25 lks wide'; the line ends at 80.20 chains (copy of the handwritten page, Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 120, image read; typed transcription p. 109). That is 40.08 of 80.20 chains along the modern section line; good to about 100 feet if the modern grid keeps the 1866 corners. Agrees with 'about three miles below Larkspur' (1940 pioneer letter, Larkspur Historical Society binder 10 p. 21), 'about half way between Larkspur and Tomah' at the clay pit (Swinney, Larkspur Historical Society binder 10 p. 58), 'three miles' east of Fort Washington (Marr), and Glenn Scott's NE1/4 Sec. 21 (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 104); Johanna Harden, the county archivist, first pointed to the survey notes (Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 367). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Sawmill on the 1866 survey](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/): 0.1 mi east - [Huntsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/): 0.5 mi north - [Crull-Hammond cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/): 0.8 mi north - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 2.2 mi south - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 2.3 mi south - [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 2.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Perkins and Barrett fox farm - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/ - Kind: Fox and fur farms - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0145, -104.6805 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Jim Perkins and Roy Barrett's fox farm, 1930s (von Ahlefeldt p. 92). ## Where it was 'At the northeast corner of Shoup and Herring Roads' (von Ahlefeldt p. 92); Ellett (p. 66) has it 'on Vollmer and Hering Roads'. Placed at the NE corner of the junction in OpenStreetMap; good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Wolford house (1934-38)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolford-house-1934-38/): 0.1 mi southwest - [Fishbeck fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fishbeck-fox-farm/): 0.3 mi south - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 1.0 mi west - [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 1.1 mi west - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 1.1 mi west - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 1.1 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Perry Park - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/ - Also known as: Pleasant Park; Perry; Lake Wauconda - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2567, -104.9925 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Perry, 1890–1895; Perry Park, 1892–1906 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Hayden's 'Pleasant Park' (1869); Lake Wauconda dammed 1888; Olmsted hired 1889; PO Perry 1890-95, Perry Park 1892-1906; subdivided 1968-74. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 1852847 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 1.8 mi northeast - [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 2.0 mi east - [Glen Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove/): 2.2 mi east - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 2.3 mi east - [Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/): 2.5 mi southeast - [Dakan](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dakan/): 2.5 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pettigrew Ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.087, -104.7712 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Homesteaded in 1869 by two Civil War veterans, Patrick Murphy and Joe Pettigrew; log cabins and a two-story house of about 1880, and a one-room schoolhouse that may have served Gwillimville (PPLD records of survey B35). J. J. Pettigrew came from New York City in 1870. In 1979 his Victorian ranch house, with a winding mahogany staircase, stood boarded up along Highway 83 'about a mile south of Pat Murphy's homestead', with a 'hanging tree' on the ranch. He gave the land for the Gwillimville church of 1893 (von Ahlefeldt pp. 26-27, 45). ## Where it was 'Three miles south of East Palmer Divide Avenue along Highway 83' (PPLD records of survey photos B35), measured along Highway 83 in OpenStreetMap; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 3 sits at the same point. Side of the road assumed. Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Gwillimville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville/): 0.9 mi north - [Gwillimville church site (1893)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-church-site-1893/): 1.0 mi north - [Pat Murphy homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pat-murphy-homestead/): 1.0 mi north - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 2.0 mi southwest - [Steppler potato cellar](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/): 2.0 mi east - [Black Forest Baptist Assembly](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-baptist-assembly/): 2.5 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Peyton - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peyton/ - Also known as: Mayfield - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0289, -104.483 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Peyton, 1889 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The Rock Island's depot was named Mayfield; the post office refused the name; PO Peyton from Feb. 14, 1889. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 204796 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Cheese Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cheese-ranch/): 4.0 mi north - [Eastonville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville/): 4.8 mi northwest - [Eastonville Episcopal church (moved)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-episcopal-church-moved/): 5.2 mi northwest - [Grandview Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grandview-ranch/): 5.8 mi northwest - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 6.5 mi west - [Ayer Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/): 6.6 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pike View Ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pike-view-ranch/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.129, -104.722 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Julius Aubuchon's homestead of 1882, grown to 680 acres; barn, silo and a two-story frame house in 1976 (PPLD record of survey B37; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 6). Aubuchon gave the land for Pine Grove School in 1912. ## Where it was 'On County Line Road, 10 miles east of Palmer Lake' (PPLD record of survey photo B37); the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 puts it just east of Pine Grove School (No. 5). Placed about a mile east of GNIS's Pine Grove School point, on the south side of the road. Good to about half a mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 0.7 mi west - [Table Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock/): 2.1 mi east - [Table Rock burial ground (reported)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock-burial-ground-reported/): 2.1 mi east - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 2.5 mi northwest - [Russell Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/): 2.5 mi east - [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 2.7 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pikes Peak Grange hall - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikes-peak-grange-hall/ - Also known as: Pikes Peak Grange No. 163 - Kind: Other historic buildings - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.4089, -104.7622 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Grange hall north of Franktown, near the entrance to Hidden Mesa Open Space; the grange was established in 1908; National Register. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 185097 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 1.3 mi southeast - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 1.3 mi southeast - [The Pinery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/the-pinery/): 3.5 mi northeast - [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 4.7 mi south - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 4.8 mi west - [Hilltop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hilltop/): 5.2 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pikeview - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9153, -104.8222 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Pikeview, 1902–1957 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Edgerton's post office moved here; PO 1902-1957. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193347 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/): 1.8 mi north - [Roswell](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/roswell/): 2.9 mi south - [Edgerton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/): 3.2 mi north - [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 3.3 mi north - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 3.9 mi northwest - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 5.9 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pillsbury Store - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/ - Also known as: Mayflower House - Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950 - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1188, -104.9199 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know General store opened in 1886 by Charles H. L. Pillsbury and Charles C. Pillsbury, who were not related: coal oil, flour and Colt revolvers, the town's first groceries, William Younger's meat market in the back and the post office; the partnership ended in 1887 (PPLD record of survey B51). ## Where it was 319 Glenside Road (PPLD record of survey photo B51), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.1 mi northeast - [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rocky-mountain-chautauqua-grounds/): 0.2 mi south - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.2 mi northeast - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.2 mi north - [Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/): 0.3 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pine Cone Ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/ - Also known as: K.K. Ranch - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0453, -104.6539 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Black Forest ranch at 13985 Vollmer Road with a log cabin, barn and stables photographed in the 1976 county survey (photo B18); Judy von Ahlefeldt's maps label the 'K.K. Ranch' here. It was the headquarters of the 6,000-acre KK Ranch, assembled by the Kountze brothers in the 1880s and run by the Kirk twins; the house and barns date from the early 1890s. An 1894 dam on West Kiowa Creek made a 17-acre lake for Eastonville picnics; it failed in the 1935 flood and sent water through Elbert. The ranch kept a commissary for timber workers (Ellett p. 7). Later it was the Hock family's 'Tannenbaum' (from 1936) and the Win-Del ranch (1945-50) (von Ahlefeldt pp. 72, 90, 93). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 193288 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 2.6 mi southwest - [Brentwood Country Club gateway](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brentwood-country-club-gateway/): 2.6 mi southwest - [Fairview School and Evans stage stop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fairview-school-and-evans-stage-stop/): 2.7 mi northwest - [J. G. Evans barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/j-g-evans-barn/): 2.7 mi northwest - [Wolford house (1934-38)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolford-house-1934-38/): 2.7 mi southwest - [Dreamland Country Club](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dreamland-country-club/): 2.8 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pine Grove - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1297, -104.7344 (stand-in point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know School-district community: District 27, 1912-1938. ## Where it was USGS GNIS School 193201, Pine Grove School site The official point of a school, cemetery or store of the same name, standing in for the place itself. ## Nearby - [Pike View Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pike-view-ranch/): 0.7 mi east - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 2.2 mi north - [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 2.3 mi northwest - [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 2.3 mi northwest - [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 2.5 mi northwest - [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 2.7 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Ponderosa Park - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ponderosa-park/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.4083, -104.6511 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 1970s subdivision. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 185105 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Running Creek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/): 2.7 mi east - [Hilltop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hilltop/): 3.4 mi northwest - [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 4.1 mi northeast - [Elizabeth](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/): 4.4 mi southeast - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 4.8 mi southwest - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 4.9 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pratt / Cherry School - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-cherry-school/ - Also known as: School District No. 20 - Kind: Schools - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1994, -104.7205 (stand-in point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The Pratt district school (District 20) on land given by Gideon C. Pratt; it burned in 1899 and was rebuilt; later the Cherry School, 11201 S. Hwy 83 (NE corner, Sec. 12, T10S R66W), sold in 1953. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 193198, Cherry School (GNIS) The official point of a school, cemetery or store of the same name, standing in for the place itself. ## Nearby - [Cherry / Williamsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-williamsville/): 0.7 mi north - [Pratt farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-farm/): 0.8 mi northwest - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 3.2 mi southwest - [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 3.3 mi southwest - [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 3.7 mi southwest - [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 3.8 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pratt farm - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-farm/ - Also known as: Gideon C. Pratt - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2097, -104.7279 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The Pratts came in 1867 for a sawmill and homesteaded 'at the near corner of Greenland Rd. and Hwy. 83'; Harry C. Pratt's lone grave marker is on the old homestead. Place Names of Colorado's Spring Valley section is this farm. ## Where it was Center of Sec. 1, T10S R66W: 'substantial farmer of section 1, township 10, range 66 west' (Portrait and Biographical Record, 1898). Good to about half a mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Cherry / Williamsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-williamsville/): 0.5 mi east - [Pratt / Cherry School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-cherry-school/): 0.8 mi southeast - [Rock Ridge-Case cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-case-cemetery/): 3.4 mi north - [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 3.6 mi southwest - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 3.7 mi south - [Rock Ridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/): 3.8 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Pring - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/ - Also known as: Pring Siding - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0533, -104.8528 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Santa Fe station at 6,780 feet (1906); 'three miles south of Monument', with a section house and water tank (1890), or 'one mile south' (1892); its siding shipped 223 carloads of produce in a year (Hall); named for John W. Pring, whose family ranched near the station from 1878; its depot became Palmer Lake's joint depot. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 193268 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Borst](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/): 0.8 mi northwest - [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 1.4 mi southeast - [Gleneagle](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gleneagle/): 1.6 mi east - [Santa Fe stone arch bridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-stone-arch-bridge/): 2.4 mi north - [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 2.4 mi south - [Black Forest Baptist Assembly](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-baptist-assembly/): 2.4 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Quick stone house (1884) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/ - Also known as: Stone House Ranch; Quick Ranch - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2643, -104.956 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Ben Quick's stone ranch house, built in 1884 (inventory record), 7355 S. Perry Park Road; Quick came in 1860 and took up the homestead in 1861; he died Feb. 2, 1915. Fort Washington stood around his earlier house and barn. ## Where it was NE1/4 SW1/4 of Sec. 13, T9S R68W (Colorado Historical Society building inventory record, Larkspur Historical Society binder 10 p. 5; a 1978 deed for 45.85 acres in the W1/2 of Sec. 13 agrees, p. 110). Center of that quarter-quarter; good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 0.4 mi northeast - [Glen Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove/): 0.4 mi southeast - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 0.4 mi northwest - [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 1.1 mi southeast - [Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/): 1.8 mi south - [Perry Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perry-park/): 2.0 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Ramah - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/ - Also known as: O. Z. ('Old Zounds') - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1217, -104.1658 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: O.Z., 1877–1889; O. Z., 1877–1889; Ramah, 1877 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO opened Jan. 29, 1877 as O. Z., 'on the Big Sandy Creek' (Crofutt 1881); Ramah from Aug. 8, 1889; Rock Island station. Today: Town of Ramah ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 203671 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 0.1 mi northeast - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 0.1 mi west - [Simla](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/simla/): 4.6 mi east - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 6.8 mi west - [Big Sandy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/): 7.1 mi west - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 8.9 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Ramah Catholic Church - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/ - Kind: Churches - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1223, -104.1651 (street address, interpolated (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know White frame church with a steeple (PPLD record of survey A39). ## Where it was 1 S. Pine Street, Ramah (PPLD record of survey photo A39), El Paso County street-range interpolation (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address placed along its block; good to a few hundred feet. ## Nearby - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 0.1 mi southwest - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 0.2 mi west - [Simla](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/simla/): 4.6 mi east - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 6.8 mi west - [Big Sandy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/): 7.1 mi west - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 9.0 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Redman Rancho - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/ - Also known as: the first Spring Valley post office (1865) - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.148, -104.7699 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know George W. Redman, county school superintendent in 1862 and Spring Valley's first postmaster (1865); his place 'was known as the Redman Rancho'. The office later moved to Gile's ranch in the NE1/4 of the same section. ## Where it was Center of the SW1/4 of Sec. 27, T10S R66W: George W. Redman's patent of Aug. 5, 1869 (Spring Valley School landmark nomination, Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 132); 'Redman's claim in SW 1/4 of sec 27' in the 1866 survey notes (Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 5). Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 0.3 mi north - [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.7 mi northeast - [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 0.8 mi north - [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 1.3 mi north - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 1.3 mi northeast - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.3 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/ - Also known as: the Reynolds guerrillas - Kind: Murders, lynchings and killings - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3469, -104.6939 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Five captured members of Jim Reynolds's Confederate guerrilla band, being taken from Denver to Fort Lyon by Company A, 3rd Colorado Cavalry, were shot 'at the old Russellville townsite' in early September 1864; the guard said they tried to escape (Rocky Mountain News, Sept. 9, 1864). The News's account is the soldiers' version. ## Where it was Placed just east of the Russellville marker: the News says only that it happened 'at the old Russellville townsite', a few miles beyond the California Ranch on the road south. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 0.2 mi west - [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 0.3 mi west - [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.2 mi southwest - [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 3.4 mi west - [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 4.4 mi northwest - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 4.4 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # River Bend - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/river-bend/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.288, -103.7922 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: River Bend, 1875–1939 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Kansas Pacific station and town; PO Jan. 4, 1875 to Jan. 31, 1939. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 195102 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Limon](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/limon/): 5.6 mi east - [Cedar Point](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-point/): 5.8 mi northwest - [Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lake/): 8.5 mi east - [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 12.7 mi southwest - [Agate](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/agate/): 14.4 mi northwest - [Genoa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/genoa/): 15.6 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Robinson homestead (Glen Grove PO?) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/robinson-homestead-glen-grove-po/ - Also known as: George and Elizabeth A. Robinson - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.239, -104.9513 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Marr: 'The Glen Grove post office was established in November of 1869 at George Robinson's place', a halfway stage stop with the house as hotel and the barn for changing horses. That this 1880s homestead is the 1869 'place' is an inference, so the Glen Grove marker stays at the school. ## Where it was Center of Sec. 25, T9S R68W, where Elizabeth A. Robinson's four homestead forties meet (final proof, Castle Rock Journal, April 20, 1887). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 1.1 mi northeast - [Glen Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove/): 1.5 mi north - [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 1.8 mi north - [Abbe Ranch House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/abbe-ranch-house/): 1.8 mi southeast - [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 2.0 mi north - [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 2.1 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Rock Ridge - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/ - Also known as: Virginia; Frost's Ranch; later Case, Irving - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.261, -104.704 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know POs Virginia Sept. 1869, Frost's Ranch Feb. 1871, Rock Ridge Feb. 1872 to March 31, 1892 (mail to Castle Rock); Case 1897, Irving 1913-1920. Crofutt (1881): 'Formerly Ivan Cracken … at the head of Cherry Creek Canon.' The name covered ranches from Antelope Creek to East Cherry Creek. ## Where it was Approximate (about half a mile): the Rock Ridge school (District 24) stood 'on the top of a ridge to the east of' the Russellville Road-Hwy 83 intersection (DCL schools page); the Rock Ridge-Case cemetery is half a mile west along Hwy 83; Place Names of Colorado puts Case in Sec. 18, T9S R65W, half a mile north-west; an 1889 road 'in Rock Ridge' started in Sec. 20, T9S R65W. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Rock Ridge-Case cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-case-cemetery/): 0.6 mi southwest - [Schroyer grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/schroyer-grave/): 1.5 mi northeast - [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.2 mi north - [Cherry / Williamsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-williamsville/): 3.6 mi south - [Pratt farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-farm/): 3.8 mi south - [Pratt / Cherry School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-cherry-school/): 4.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Rock Ridge-Case cemetery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-case-cemetery/ - Also known as: Irving; Schreiber - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2572, -104.7139 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Private, 29 graves identified (1999). ## Where it was GPS reading of the cemetery's middle, 39 15 26 N, 104 42 50 W (Colorado Cemetery Names Project form, 1999, in the Larkspur binder); Sec. 19, T9S R65W; gate at 6685 S. Hwy 83. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Rock Ridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/): 0.6 mi northeast - [Schroyer grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/schroyer-grave/): 2.0 mi northeast - [Cherry / Williamsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-williamsville/): 3.3 mi south - [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.3 mi north - [Pratt farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-farm/): 3.4 mi south - [Pratt / Cherry School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-cherry-school/): 4.0 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rocky-mountain-chautauqua-grounds/ - Kind: Other sites - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1165, -104.9187 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Site of the Rocky Mountain Chautauqua Assembly, 1886/87 to 1910 (PPLD records of survey B54). ## Where it was 'Near Crescent and Walnut Avenues in Glen Park' (PPLD records of survey photos B54); that junction in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05). Good to a few hundred feet. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Glen Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-park/): 0.2 mi southwest - [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.2 mi north - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.2 mi north - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.3 mi northeast - [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.3 mi northwest - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.4 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Roswell - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/roswell/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.8736, -104.8194 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Roswell, 1889–1908 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 'Born in 1889 of the junction of the Rock Island and Rio Grande' (Hall); PO 1889-1908. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193476 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 2.9 mi north - [Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/): 4.7 mi north - [Kelker](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kelker/): 5.8 mi south - [Edgerton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/): 6.1 mi north - [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 6.1 mi north - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 6.6 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Running Creek - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/ - Also known as: Ruthton - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.3943, -104.6047 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know PO 1868-1883, mail to Elizabeth; Middle Kiowa's office in the 1875-77 directories. The 1868 post road ran 'from Frankstown to the Bijou Basin … to Running Creek and thence to Kiowa and Bijou Basin' (Colorado Tribune, May 14, 1868). Sawmills on Running Creek: M. M. DeLano's (1865) and the Webbers' (1868). The 'Ruthton' variant is doubtful: in 1865 Ruthton was a Smoky Hill stage station in Kansas. ## Where it was 'Running Creek Station 1871 or Ruthton Home Station, P.O. 1868-83': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet). Sec. 31, T7S R64W, on Running Creek at the south edge of today's Elizabeth. Crofutt: 'on Box Creek … fifteen miles east from Castle Rock'; Scott labels the stream 'Running (Box Elder Creek) Creek', and this point is 13.5 miles east of Castle Rock. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Elizabeth](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/): 2.4 mi south - [Ponderosa Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ponderosa-park/): 2.7 mi west - [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 3.7 mi north - [Hilltop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hilltop/): 5.7 mi northwest - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 5.8 mi southwest - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 5.9 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Rush - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rush/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.84, -104.0922 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Rush, 1908 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Little beyond its location so far. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193570 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Holtwold](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/holtwold/): 7.3 mi north - [Kutch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kutch/): 12.9 mi east - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 15.5 mi northwest - [Ellicott](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ellicott/): 15.9 mi west - [Calhan](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/calhan/): 17.4 mi northwest - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 19.9 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Russell Homestead - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1185, -104.6767 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know John and Honora Russell settled here in 1864; their two-story frame house of 1880 stands with Table Rock behind it. They (1837-1888; 1841-1887) are buried in Table Rock Cemetery (PPLD records of survey B12, B13; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 8). ## Where it was 19750 Campbell Road, on East Cherry Creek (PPLD records of survey photos B12), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Table Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock/): 0.5 mi west - [Table Rock burial ground (reported)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock-burial-ground-reported/): 0.5 mi west - [Pike View Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pike-view-ranch/): 2.5 mi west - [McConnell homestead (1882)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcconnell-homestead-1882/): 2.8 mi southwest - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 3.2 mi west - [J. G. Evans barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/j-g-evans-barn/): 3.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Russellville - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/ - Also known as: Gold Dale (1880s); Golddale PO - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3469, -104.6969 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Russellville, 1862; Golddale, 1882–1885 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Where the Russell party found gold on the head of Cherry Creek (late August 1857, per Robert McBride in 1873; June 1858 per Hall); the Russellville Town company was organized Dec. 8, 1858. In 1859 'chock-full of stores and saloons, boarding houses, blacksmith shops, sawmills'; by 1867 'only one house in the "city," and that's the stage stopping place for grub' on the Denver & Santa Fe line, kept by Palmer (1869-70). Military company organized here in 1868. Renamed Gold Dale for the 1880s placer revival (John Ferris's pumps and sluices, 1885); Golddale PO 1882-85. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Locale 185142. 'Some six miles to the west of' Elizabeth station (News, 1884); 'five miles southeast of the present Frankstown' (Hall 1891); 'thirty-five miles up the Divide' from Denver (News, 1869). The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 0.2 mi east - [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 0.2 mi west - [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.2 mi southwest - [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 3.2 mi west - [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 4.3 mi northwest - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 4.3 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # S. C. Stout ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/s-c-stout-ranch/ - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0354, -104.7755 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Samuel C. Stout came in 1869 as tie inspector at Gomer's Mill and managed Palmer's Pinery for forty years. A small school stood on the ranch, and part of it went to the Air Force Academy (von Ahlefeldt pp. 31, 91, 100). The Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express road of 1859 crossed the Divide near the same intersection (p. 18). ## Where it was 'Located at the present intersection of State Highway 83 and Northgate Road' (von Ahlefeldt p. 31). The 1979 Northgate Road is taken to be today's Old North Gate Road, whose junction with Highway 83 in OpenStreetMap is used; North Gate Boulevard meets Highway 83 half a mile south. One source; good to about half a mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Lazy M-D log cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lazy-m-d-log-cabin/): 0.3 mi north - [Shamrock Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/shamrock-ranch/): 0.5 mi northeast - [Bassett's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bassetts-mill/): 1.1 mi northeast - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 1.5 mi northwest - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 2.1 mi northwest - [Black Forest Regional Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-regional-park/): 2.5 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Santa Fe section foreman's house - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1202, -104.9163 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Built about 1892 by the Santa Fe for its Palmer Lake section foreman; given to the Palmer Lake Historical Society in 1962 for a library and museum; the town police station in 2026, per the library's cataloger (PPLD record of survey B53). ## Where it was 54 Valley Crescent (PPLD record of survey photo B53), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/): 0.1 mi north - [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.2 mi southwest - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.2 mi northwest - [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.2 mi southwest - [D&RG icehouses, Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/d-and-rg-icehouses-palmer-lake/): 0.2 mi northeast - [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.3 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Santa Fe stone arch bridge - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-stone-arch-bridge/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0857, -104.8671 (mapped feature (OpenStreetMap)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Stone arch carrying the Santa Fe over Dirty Woman Creek; replaced by a concrete culvert, per the library's cataloger (PPLD records of survey B71). ## Where it was Where the Santa Fe track crossed Dirty Woman Creek south of Monument (PPLD records of survey photos B71): the crossing of the old Santa Fe grade (New Santa Fe Regional Trail) and Dirty Woman Creek in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05). A feature drawn in OpenStreetMap, such as a park or a lake. ## Nearby - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.4 mi northwest - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.4 mi northwest - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.5 mi northwest - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.5 mi northwest - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.5 mi northwest - [Gwillimville schoolhouse (now the Chamber's meeting house)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-schoolhouse-now-the-chambers-meeting-house/): 0.6 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Sawmill on the 1866 survey - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/ - Also known as: probably D. C. Oakes's mill, Huntsville - Kind: Sawmills - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.261, -104.8926 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The only mill on the line in 1866, 11.4 chains (about 750 feet) east of the People's Fort. Olive Oakes put her husband's fort 'about twenty-five yards to the south of D.C.'s sawmill' (as summarized on a draft panel, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 378); the survey's spacing is wider, so whose mill this was is not settled. ## Where it was General Land Office field notes, T9S R67W (Pierce, 1866), p. 93: '51.50 Saw mill 2 ch N. of line' between Secs. 21 and 16, 1.4 chains west of Plum Creek (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 120). 51.50 of 80.20 chains along the section line, 2 chains north; good to about 100 feet. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 0.1 mi west - [Huntsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/): 0.5 mi north - [Crull-Hammond cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/): 0.8 mi northwest - [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 2.2 mi south - [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 2.3 mi south - [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 2.3 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Schroyer grave - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/schroyer-grave/ - Also known as: Capt. Chas. A. Schroyer, 1832-1880 - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.2792, -104.6886 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know A single grave in a field on a ranch off Russellville Road (1999 form). ## Where it was GPS reading 39°16'45" N, 104°41'19" W (Cemetery Names Project form, 1999; Larkspur Historical Society binder 3 p. 2); 'From Russelville Rd & Hwy 83 intersection N approx. 1.25 mi. Grave is in field approx. 100 yds E'. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Rock Ridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/): 1.5 mi southwest - [Rock Ridge-Case cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-case-cemetery/): 2.0 mi southwest - [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 2.5 mi northwest - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 4.7 mi north - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 4.7 mi north - [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 4.7 mi north Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Sedalia - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sedalia/ - Also known as: Round Corral; Plum; Plum Station - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.4369, -104.9597 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Sedalia, 1872 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Located as the Round Corral in 1865, later Plum Station; PO Sedalia from April 8, 1872; platted May 15, 1882. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 204740 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Louviers](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/louviers/): 3.8 mi northwest - [Oakland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/): 4.6 mi south - [St. Philip-in-the-Field](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-philip-in-the-field/): 4.8 mi south - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 6.1 mi southeast - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 6.7 mi southeast - [Acequia](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/acequia/): 7.0 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Shamrock Ranch - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/shamrock-ranch/ - Also known as: Allen Ranch - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0412, -104.7699 (street address, interpolated (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Two-story French-farmhouse-style house built around a courtyard in 1911 by Benjamin O. Allen, with two half-timbered French-provincial barns about a quarter mile away; a working cattle ranch in 1976 (PPLD records of survey B33; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 2). The Allen Ranch passed in the 1940s to Channing Sweet and then to George Hardesty, who kept only the valley that became Sun Hills (von Ahlefeldt p. 91). Ellett (p. 3) puts the Edgar Lumber and Box Factory (1922) on the Allen Ranch; von Ahlefeldt puts the Edgar mill near Gov. Shoup's house, south of the Black Forest crossroads. ## Where it was 15555 Highway 83 (PPLD records of survey photos B33), U.S. Census geocoder (street-range interpolation, 2026-10-05); Shamrock Ranch Road in OpenStreetMap leaves Highway 83 eastward at the same latitude. Good to about a quarter mile. A street address placed along its block; good to a few hundred feet. ## Nearby - [Lazy M-D log cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lazy-m-d-log-cabin/): 0.2 mi southwest - [S. C. Stout ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/s-c-stout-ranch/): 0.5 mi southwest - [Bassett's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bassetts-mill/): 0.6 mi north - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 1.5 mi northwest - [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 2.0 mi northwest - [Black Forest Regional Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-regional-park/): 2.6 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Simla - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/simla/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.1417, -104.0838 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Simla, 1907 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Rock Island stop; town founded 1909; PO Aug. 12, 1909; incorporated 1911 or 1912 (sources differ). Today: Town of Simla ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193219 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Ramah Catholic Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah-catholic-church/): 4.6 mi west - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 4.6 mi west - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 4.7 mi west - [Matheson](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/matheson/): 6.2 mi east - [Kuhns Crossing](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kuhns-crossing/): 9.9 mi north - [St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/): 11.4 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Southwater - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0348, -104.8403 (from a cited description (good to half a mile)) - Post office: Southwater, 1872–1878 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The post office that replaced Bassett's Mills in April 1872; postmasters Dr. S. S. Wallihan (1876) and James M. Wadsworth (1877); Husted's sawmill 'near Southwater' burned in December 1877; the office moved to Husted and took its name at the end of 1878. Place Names of Colorado also calls it 'Borsts', but the 1872 guide lists Borstville as a separate station. ## Where it was Center of Sec. 1, T12S R67W, from Place Names of Colorado ('RR Post Office on D&RG 1872-1878. Moved from Bassetts Mills. 4 mi S of Monument'), via the BLM PLSS survey grid; good to about half a mile. The News's 1872 guide to the line puts Southwater 'at the sixtieth mile-post', with 'a postoffice and extensive siding for the loading of ties and lumber'; Husted, a mile south, was 61 or 62 miles from Denver (1873, 1881). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 1.0 mi south - [Gleneagle](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gleneagle/): 1.1 mi northeast - [Pring](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pring/): 1.4 mi northwest - [Borst](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/borst/): 2.2 mi northwest - [Black Forest Baptist Assembly](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-baptist-assembly/): 2.7 mi northeast - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 2.8 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Spring Valley - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/ - Also known as: Gile's station; the Spring Valley Fort - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1522, -104.7708 (from a cited description (about half a mile)) - Post office: Spring Valley, 1865–1885 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know First settled July 10, 1860 (Crofutt); PO March 27, 1865 at G. W. Redman's (SW1/4 Sec. 27), kept by J. F. Gile in 1877, moved to Jacob Geiger's in May 1885, closed July 1885. Divide Grange No. 53 met at the schoolhouse. Cemetery a mile north (39.159, -104.768). Place Names of Colorado's Sec. 1 is the Pratt farm, not Spring Valley. ## Where it was 1994 GPS readings of the store foundation (Larkspur binder, Spring Valley Book 1 p. 168), W1/2 NW, Sec. 27, T10S R66W, 40 m from GNIS's Spring Valley School. The 1877 post office site report puts the office in the NE1/4 of the same section (see 'Gile's ranch'). Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 0.3 mi south - [Spring Valley Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/): 0.5 mi north - [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.6 mi east - [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 1.0 mi northeast - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 1.3 mi east - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.5 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Spring Valley Cemetery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley-cemetery/ - Also known as: Killin Chapel (1966) - Kind: Cemeteries - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1592, -104.768 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 'In a grove of towering pine trees one mile north of Spring Valley' (Marr); oldest graves dated 1870; Daniel Holden gave the back portion to 'the People of Spring Valley' in 1877; chapel built 1966. GNIS's point is half a mile north of the store site. Among the graves: six Gile children who died in 1880, the diphtheria year, and a marker for three Gwillim children of Gwillimville (Charlie Searle, Tribune, May 5, 2020, with photographs). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Cemetery 193194 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Gile's ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/giles-ranch/): 0.5 mi southeast - [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 0.5 mi northeast - [Spring Valley](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spring-valley/): 0.5 mi south - [Redman Rancho](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/redman-rancho/): 0.8 mi south - [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 1.0 mi east - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.7 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Spruce - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/spruce/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.1567, -104.8783 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Crossover and named place. ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 193180 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Greenland](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland/): 2.2 mi northeast - [Greenland Ranch headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland-ranch-headquarters/): 2.5 mi northeast - [D&RG icehouses, Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/d-and-rg-icehouses-palmer-lake/): 3.0 mi southwest - [Columbine School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/columbine-school/): 3.2 mi southeast - [Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/): 3.2 mi southwest - [Katrina Murat cottage](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/katrina-murat-cottage/): 3.2 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-marys-orthodox-church-1932/ - Also known as: Saint Mary's Holy Dormition Orthodox Church - Kind: Churches - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1129, -104.2923 (mapped feature (OpenStreetMap)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Frame church of 1932 with two onion cupolas (PPLD record of survey A35). ## Where it was 'Five miles north of Calhan' (PPLD record of survey photo A35); the church at 19485 North Calhan Highway in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05), 5.4 miles north of GNIS's Calhan point. A feature drawn in OpenStreetMap, such as a park or a lake. ## Nearby - [Big Sandy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/big-sandy/): 1.9 mi south - [Calhan](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/calhan/): 5.4 mi south - [Fremont's Fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fremonts-fort/): 6.6 mi west - [Paint Mines](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/paint-mines/): 6.7 mi south - [Gammon house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gammon-house/): 6.7 mi east - [Ramah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ramah/): 6.8 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # St. Peter Catholic Church (1911) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/ - Also known as: Peter the Rock Chapel - Kind: Churches - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0905, -104.8716 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Small frame church of 1911; now Peter the Rock Chapel, joined to the parish hall of the newer St. Peter church at 55 Jefferson, per the library's cataloger (PPLD record of survey B69). ## Where it was 155 Jefferson Street (PPLD record of survey photo B69), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.0 mi northeast - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.2 mi north - [Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/): 0.3 mi west - [Santa Fe stone arch bridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-stone-arch-bridge/): 0.4 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # St. Philip-in-the-Field - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-philip-in-the-field/ - Also known as: Bear Cañon church; Bear Canyon Church - Kind: Churches - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.368, -104.9605 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Episcopal church off Perry Park Road (Highway 105), surrounded by the Bear Canyon (Bear Cañon) Cemetery; George Nickson helped establish the church and cemetery in the 1870s (Perry Park binder LHS_9, Nickson history). Built by Newton Grout in 1872 and consecrated as St. Philip in the Field in 1889, per a parish history in the same binder (helper's digest, pp. 349-352; not yet). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Church 185124 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Oakland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oakland-school/): 0.3 mi northeast - [Lone Tree School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lone-tree-school/): 2.9 mi south - [Sedalia](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sedalia/): 4.8 mi north - [Cedar Hill Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cedar-hill-cemetery/): 4.8 mi east - [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 4.8 mi southeast - [Coberly's Half-Way House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/coberlys-half-way-house/): 5.2 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Steppler potato cellar - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/ - Also known as: Steppler Ranch - Kind: Ranches and homesteads - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0854, -104.7334 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Potato cellar and outbuildings of the Steppler Ranch in the Table Rock area (PPLD records of survey B15; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 4, 'Steppler Potato Cellar'). ## Where it was 'On Steppler Road, 2 miles east of Highway 83 and 1/2 mile south of Highway 105' (PPLD records of survey photos B15); on Steppler Road in OpenStreetMap; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 4 agrees. Good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [McConnell homestead (1882)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcconnell-homestead-1882/): 1.8 mi east - [Pettigrew Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/): 2.0 mi west - [Pat Murphy homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pat-murphy-homestead/): 2.2 mi northwest - [Gwillimville church site (1893)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-church-site-1893/): 2.3 mi northwest - [Gwillimville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville/): 2.4 mi northwest - [Fairview School and Evans stage stop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fairview-school-and-evans-stage-stop/): 2.5 mi southeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Table Rock - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1182, -104.6854 (stand-in point) - Post office: Table Rock, 1873–1893; mail later sent to Monument - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 'In the timber … ten miles north of east from Monument' (Crofutt 1881); a new post office 'between here [Colorado Springs] and Gomer's Mill' (Gazette, Jan. 1874); 'on the head of East Cherry Creek' (1875). PO 1873 to Nov. 15, 1893, when its mail went to Monument (News, Nov. 14, 1893); the summit is at 39.121, -104.672. Moved south along Walker Road at some point (PLHS). ## Where it was USGS GNIS Cemetery 1834819, Table Rock Cemetery The official point of a school, cemetery or store of the same name, standing in for the place itself. ## Nearby - [Table Rock burial ground (reported)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock-burial-ground-reported/): 0.0 mi north - [Russell Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/): 0.5 mi east - [Pike View Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pike-view-ranch/): 2.1 mi west - [McConnell homestead (1882)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcconnell-homestead-1882/): 2.6 mi south - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.7 mi west - [J. G. Evans barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/j-g-evans-barn/): 3.2 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Table Rock burial ground (reported) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock-burial-ground-reported/ - Kind: Native American sites and finds (generalized) - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1182, -104.6854 (shown to about a mile) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know The 1976 survey records Table Rock Mountain as 'reported to be an old Indian burial grounds' (PPLD record of survey B11; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 7, 'Table Rock Indian Burial'). ## Where it was Shown to the nearest named place, within about a mile, to protect the site. Located from: PPLD record of survey photo B11; BLM PLSS grid. A sensitive site: shown at the nearest named place, within about a mile. ## Nearby - [Table Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/table-rock/): 0.0 mi north - [Russell Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russell-homestead/): 0.5 mi east - [Pike View Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pike-view-ranch/): 2.1 mi west - [McConnell homestead (1882)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcconnell-homestead-1882/): 2.6 mi south - [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.7 mi west - [J. G. Evans barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/j-g-evans-barn/): 3.2 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Teachout Ranch and Edgerton House - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/teachout-ranch-and-edgerton-house/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 38.9412, -104.8215 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Harlow Teachout's homestead of spring 1868 in Woodmen Valley: a cabin, a stone barn and a stone icehouse, whose walls still stood in 1976; a stage stop on the Pueblo-Denver road. Late in 1868 the Teachouts built Edgerton House, an inn with a dining room and eight bedrooms where Gen. Palmer sometimes stayed; in the 1870s up to 200 tuberculosis tents stood around it (PPLD record of survey B81). Not the Edgerton station mapped on Academy land; how the two Edgertons relate is open. ## Where it was 'Between railroad tracks and Monument Creek approximately 3500 feet north of the Edmonson Trail Head parking lot (250 E. Woodmen …' (PPLD record of survey photo B81); 400 feet east of the trail in OpenStreetMap, opposite Jenkin Place. Good to a few hundred feet. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Edgerton](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/edgerton/): 1.5 mi northwest - [Cascade Ice Company Reservoir No. 1](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade-ice-company-reservoir-no-1/): 1.7 mi northwest - [Pikeview](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikeview/): 1.8 mi south - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 2.5 mi northwest - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 4.3 mi northwest - [Roswell](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/roswell/): 4.7 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # The Pinery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/the-pinery/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.4553, -104.7344 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 1970s subdivision. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 1867091 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Hilltop](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hilltop/): 2.8 mi east - [Pikes Peak Grange hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pikes-peak-grange-hall/): 3.5 mi southwest - [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 4.5 mi south - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 4.5 mi south - [Ponderosa Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ponderosa-park/): 5.5 mi southeast - [New Memphis](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/new-memphis/): 7.6 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Tomah - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/ - Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures - Status: Living today - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3019, -104.89 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Santa Fe station at 6,436 feet (1906); 'not much more than a water stop' (Larkspur society). Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 185130 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Glade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/): 0.8 mi southeast - [Crull-Hammond cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/): 2.1 mi south - [Huntsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/): 2.4 mi south - [Douglas](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas/): 2.7 mi north - [Sawmill on the 1866 survey](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/): 2.8 mi south - [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 2.9 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Weir's Mill - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/weirs-mill/ - Also known as: Squirrel Creek Saw Mill; Old Easton post office (1872) - Kind: Sawmills - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0121, -104.6122 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Jerome Weir's mill on Black Squirrel Creek, from 1863 (bought with Judd from Robert Finley); the county's first planing mill (painting of 1880). The 1872 temporary post office, 'Old Easton', was probably here (von Ahlefeldt). Place Names of Colorado's 'head of Black Squirrel Creek', Sec. 26, T11S R66W, about seven miles west, and Ellett's mills on the Trump place (Park Forest) are other Weir sites, possibly later ones. ## Where it was Scott's 'Weir Mill' leader goes to the same symbol as 'Brush Corral Camping Place', with '(Old Easton 1872)' beside it: Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet). 0.4 mile southwest of the Eastonville cemetery, as von Ahlefeldt has it ('southwest of the Shadelands Cemetery', pp. 51, 54; her 1979 map about 1 1/2 miles west-southwest); 16.7 miles straight-line from downtown Colorado Springs, against Weir's ads, 'Easton P.O. … 18 miles N.E. of Colorado Springs' (1874-76). Scott 1999 may draw on von Ahlefeldt 1979, so the two are not wholly independent; the ads are. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Brush Corral](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brush-corral/): 0.0 mi northeast - [Eastonville Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eastonville-cemetery/): 0.4 mi northeast - [Ayer Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ayer-ranch/): 0.6 mi southeast - [Easton (first post office)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/easton-first-post-office/): 0.9 mi northeast - [Pine Cone Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-cone-ranch/): 3.2 mi northwest - [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 3.7 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # William Brown fox farm - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/ - Kind: Fox and fur farms - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0637, -104.792 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Lavelett, as quoted by Rob Carrigan (2008) and Danny Summers (2011), puts 'one of the largest and best fox farms in the west' off Baptist Road and credits it to a Mr. Shelby, with Dave Gibbs as first manager. Judy von Ahlefeldt instead puts Dr. Frank Shelby's Black Forest Silver Fox Ranch on Ayer's Road, and Gibbs's own large farm east of Monument. Who owned this farm is unresolved. A William Brown Ranch near Gwillimville was raising 'beefalo' in 1979 (von Ahlefeldt p. 97). ## Where it was 'A very large one over towards Monument. It was at the end of what is now Baptist Road. It recently …' (Ellett p. 66); 'the William Brown Fox Farm near Roller Coaster Road' (von Ahlefeldt p. 92). Placed at the park's center in OpenStreetMap; the farm's extent is not known. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Hardesty Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hardesty-ranch/): 0.8 mi south - [Black Forest Baptist Assembly](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-baptist-assembly/): 1.1 mi west - [Bassett's Mill](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bassetts-mill/): 1.7 mi southeast - [Lazy M-D log cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lazy-m-d-log-cabin/): 1.9 mi southeast - [Shamrock Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/shamrock-ranch/): 2.0 mi southeast - [Pettigrew Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/): 2.0 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Wilson's Store and Bakery - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/ - Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950 - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1191, -104.919 (street address) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Gambrel-roofed building of 1900 where Fred Wilson, from 1905, ran a bakery and sold groceries, dry goods and hardware (PPLD record of survey B52). ## Where it was 270 South Valley Road (PPLD record of survey photo B52), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05). A street address, located with the county's address points. ## Nearby - [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.1 mi southwest - [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.1 mi northwest - [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.2 mi northeast - [Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rocky-mountain-chautauqua-grounds/): 0.2 mi south - [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.2 mi north - [Palmer Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/palmer-lake/): 0.2 mi northeast Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Wolfcreek - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolfcreek/ - Kind: Post offices and stage stations - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Elbert County, Colorado - Point: 39.5631, -104.3751 (from Scott's 1999 trail map, with a second source (a few hundred feet)) - Post office: Wolfcreek, 1910–1919; Wolf Creek, 1910–1919 - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Post office 1910-1919, northeast of Kiowa. ## Where it was 'Wolfcreek 1910': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet (good to a few hundred feet). Place Names of Colorado: Sec. 6, T6S R62W, 'Rural Post Office 1910-1919. 15 mi NE of Kiowa.'; this point is 0.43 mile from that section's center. Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source. ## Nearby - [Hungate site (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hungate-site-1864/): 8.6 mi west - [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 9.8 mi south - [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 14.1 mi southwest - [Claud](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/claud/): 15.1 mi southeast - [Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/): 15.5 mi south - [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 15.7 mi south Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Wolford house (1934-38) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolford-house-1934-38/ - Also known as: Edith and Ira Wolford - Kind: Historic homes and cabins - Status: Historic or vanished - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.0129, -104.6818 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile)) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Edith Wolford came to teach at the Black Forest school in 1934; her husband died in 1938 (Ira, per the church's charter list), after which she boarded with the Tevebaughs, in their log house about half a mile east of the community center (Ellett pp. 28, 31). In 1941 her home was in the Falcon School District; in 1956 she sold land about a quarter mile west of the community center for the Truett-Frazier garage (Ellett pp. 30, 66). Ellett prints a 1987 photo of 'Edith Wolford's Place' (p. 14) without saying which house. She taught 52 years, retired in 1969, and the school was renamed for her (p. 44). ## Where it was 'A big two story house just off Shoup Road on Hering' (Ellett p. 28); placed at the Shoup-Herring junction in OpenStreetMap. Which side, and how far off Shoup, is not stated. One source; good to about a quarter mile. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 0.1 mi northeast - [Fishbeck fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fishbeck-fox-farm/): 0.2 mi south - [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 1.0 mi west - [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 1.0 mi west - [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 1.0 mi west - [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 1.0 mi west Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Woodland Park - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodland-park/ - Also known as: Summit Park; Manitou Park - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: Teller County, Colorado - Point: 38.9939, -105.0569 (USGS GNIS point) - Post office: Woodland Park, 1873 to today - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Ute Pass side; Summit Park PO 1873. Probably outside the book. Today: City of Woodland Park ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 204768 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Green Mountain Falls](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/green-mountain-falls/): 4.6 mi southeast - [Divide (Teller County)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/divide-teller-county/): 6.5 mi southwest - [Cascade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cascade/): 8.1 mi southeast - [Monument Nursery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-nursery/): 10.3 mi northeast - [Air Force Academy](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/air-force-academy/): 10.4 mi east - [Hand ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hand-ranch/): 10.8 mi east Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Woodmoor - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodmoor/ - Kind: Towns and settlements - Status: Living today - County: El Paso County, Colorado - Point: 39.1014, -104.8475 (USGS GNIS point) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know 'Tri-Lakes' from 1970, when Lake Woodmoor was built. Today: Census-designated place ## Where it was USGS GNIS Populated Place 1867092 The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name. ## Nearby - [Gwillimville schoolhouse (now the Chamber's meeting house)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-schoolhouse-now-the-chambers-meeting-house/): 1.0 mi southwest - [Monument Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-cemetery/): 1.1 mi west - [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 1.4 mi southwest - [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 1.5 mi southwest - [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 1.5 mi southwest - [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 1.5 mi southwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Wyatt's sawmill (1859) - URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/ - Also known as: Fisher's mill; 'the first saw mill in Colorado' - Kind: Sawmills - Status: Historic or vanished - County: Douglas County, Colorado - Point: 39.3469, -104.6999 (from a cited description) - Updated: 2026-10-06 ## What we know Judge Wyatt brought a sawmill early in 1859 and set it up at Russellville in February 1859; Mort Fisher bought it and 'cut much of the lumber that built early Denver' (1889 account, which calls it the first sawmill in Colorado, ahead of D. C. Oakes's). In February 1860 Fisher & Rogers planned to move it 'to the pineries near Bradford' to shorten the haul from 35 miles to 18 (News, Feb. 22, 1860). ## Where it was Placed just west of the Russellville marker: the mill stood 'on Cherry creek at a point afterwards known as Russellville' (Field and Farm, reprinted 1889); its exact site is unknown. Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note. ## Nearby - [Russellville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/): 0.2 mi east - [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 0.3 mi east - [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 3.1 mi west - [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.1 mi south - [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 4.2 mi northwest - [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 4.2 mi northwest Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0. --- # Places not yet located ## Godfrey's Station and Holon Godfrey's residence (Crofutt 1881); PO 1908-1916, then Buick. Location: Kansas Pacific, 74 miles east of Denver. ## Black Forest Silver Fox Ranch (Dr. Frank Shelby) 'On the southeast edge of the Forest on Ayer's Road' (von Ahlefeldt p. 92); Ellett's 'fox farm over near Ayers' (p. 66) is probably the same. Ayer Road runs about two miles, so not placed. Lavelett puts Shelby's farm off Baptist Road instead (see William Brown fox farm). ## Edgar Lumber and Box Company mill Three locations: 'built in 1922 and was on the Allen Ranch, now called Shamrock Ranch' (Ellett p. 3); 'for several years … located near the Shoup residence', about half a mile south of the Shoup-Black Forest crossroads (von Ahlefeldt p. 79); 'Shoup Rd., west side of Forest' (von Ahlefeldt's sawmill chronology, p. 113). The company bought 12,047 acres of the old Pinery in 1918. ## Divide Experiment Station (1887-96) Colorado State's dryland station on 'forty acres of Sam Hill's Ranch about a mile west of Table Rock' (von Ahlefeldt p. 46); her 1979 map marks D.E.S. near 39.10, -104.69 (one author); the 1896 annual report gives only a Monument address and its tenant, W. A. Diebold of Table Rock (archive.org agriculturalexpe0000unse_f9g2); the 1888-92 reports are on HathiTrust, not yet read; weather records 1889-96; the Sinton family owned the old Hill ranch in 1979. Which Table Rock (the mesa or the settlement) is meant is unclear; the station's annual reports (Breninger, 1888-96) should give the section. ## Santa Fe bridge collapse (July 17, 1895) The 300-foot Santa Fe bridge 'a quarter of a mile south of Monument' fell under a 22-car freight; five killed (von Ahlefeldt p. 40, citing the Evening Telegraph of July 17, 1895). Possibly the Dirty Woman Creek crossing, where the 1976 survey photographed a stone arch; not confirmed. ## Alfred Peterson's homestead cabin (1879) 'West of State Highway 217 just north of the El Paso County Line' (von Ahlefeldt p. 74). His brothers Andrew (shot by Evan Hall near Gomer's Mill, 1872) and Ephraim (shot in 1874 over strayed mules) died violently (p. 73). Highway 217's 1979 route needs checking. ## Dave Gibbs's fox farm Gibbs, first manager of the Baptist Road fox farm in Lavelett's account, 'later owned his own fox operation east of Monument on Highway 105' (Lavelett, as quoted by Carrigan, 2008); von Ahlefeldt (p. 92) lists 'Dave Gibbs' large farm east of Monument'. ## Breitweiser fox farm Still operating in 1951, when the Lincoln Fur Farm's new owners may have sold it their last ten pairs; Hamling counts three fox farms in Douglas and northern El Paso counties in the mid-20th century (Larkspur Historical Society binder 9 p. 60). Location not found. ## Kilgore family fox farm Log-cabin fox farm of the mid-1930s to the late 1940s described in Hermina Gertrude Kilgore's memoir Rough Road in the Rockies (quoted by the PLHS fox-farms page). John and Hermina Kilgore were 'fox farmers and residents of Palmer Lake during the 1940s' (von Ahlefeldt p. 126). Location not found; the memoir is not in the archive. ## Jack Duckels's turkey and fox farm, Palmer Lake Duckels 'first raised turkeys and foxes near Palmer Lake in the 1920s' before moving to Aurora in 1932 (William J. Convery, Colorado Heritage, as quoted by Carrigan, 2008). ## Elliott Store, Monument Two-and-a-half-story frame store of about 1880 'on Front Street'; R. C. Elliott sold general merchandise, harness, plows and wagons; it operated until 1963 (PPLD records of survey B61). No street number; Front Street runs about five blocks. ## Lierd's Store, Monument Built in 1888 as Lierd's Store, later the Monument Volunteer Fire Department building, 'on Washington Street' (PPLD record of survey B63). No street number. ## W. B. Walker's store (Walker Warehouse), Monument Walker sold general merchandise here from 1885 at the west end of 2nd Street; the building was moved to Highway 105 in 1928 as a restaurant and to the east end of 2nd Street in 1974 as an Episcopal church; gone by 2026 (PPLD record of survey B65). ## Woodmen Hall and the old town hall, Monument Woodmen of the World hall of 1896 on 2nd Street, sold in 1929 to W. E. Higby, given to the Monument Homemaker Club in 1941 and to the town in 1965; gone by 2026; a smaller frame building of about 1900 next to it was an early town hall (PPLD records of survey B66, B67). No street numbers. ## McIntyre House, Palmer Lake House of about 1885 on Glenside Road, bought in 1898 by Henry McIntyre of the D&RG's 1871 survey party; later a school and community center (PPLD record of survey B50). No street number. ## Falcon Hotel Two-story frame hotel of 1890 at 'Fort Worth and Fifth Streets in Falcon', with a 30-foot hand-dug well (PPLD records of survey A32). OpenStreetMap has Fort Worth Road but no Fifth Street in Falcon; the old townsite plat would settle it. ## Holden ranch house, Bijou Basin Two-story frame house of the 1870s or 1880s built by D. M. Holden, who came in 1860 and by 1878 ran 2,700 sheep and 1,500 cattle; 'at Bijou Basin [ghost town] located north-west of Calhan' (PPLD records of survey B3). ## Lindley Homestead on the Packard Ranch Two-story frame house of the late 1880s 'south of Elbert on Kiowa Creek in El Paso County' (PPLD records of survey B7). ## Edith and Ira Wolford's house(s), Black Forest Edith Wolford taught at the Black Forest log school from 1936 (still there in 1945; New Falcon Herald); the Wolfords are on the Black Forest Community Church's charter list. No house location found in the archive, PPLD's index or the 1976 survey. ## Monument Station; Stanley Camp 'On the south end of the Academy' (Carrigan); Stanley Camp appears only in Carrigan. ## Breed Santa Fe station (1906). ## Sommers Santa Fe station between Pring and Breed (1906). ## Plateau D&RG siding (1906). ## Hathaway, Struby, Gann, King Douglas County stations, 1906. ## Kelly's D&RG station 20 miles from Denver. Outside, north. ## John Irion's fort (the Spring Valley fort, 1860s) Scott's trail map: 'about a mile south of Giles Ranch at Spring Valley in the middle N 1/2 sec. 34, T10S R66W'. The Larkspur binders give five other spots; a surviving stone ruin at Spring Valley Rd and Lorraine Rd dates to about 1900-1910. Scott's 1999 map draws 'John Irions Fort 1864 (Fort Lincoln)' in that section, 0.9 mile south of his Gile Ranch swing station; it is in the Scott places layer, kept off the main map until a source independent of Scott agrees. ## Frost's Ranch Post office Feb. 8, 1871 to Feb. 1872, between Virginia and Rock Ridge; 'Frost's Rancho — Douglas; stock; population 15' (1874 list). Who Frost was is unknown. ## Bear Cañon, Keystone, Bennet Springs, Colfax Early Douglas County post offices (Golddale was Russellville renamed; see Russellville). ## Oakes' Mill, Happy Canon, Melvin's Early Douglas County settlements (Hall). ## Sidney D&NO/C&S station at 7,032 feet, listed between Elbert and Easton in 1885. ## Cameron, Bellevue D&NO stations (1885 list). ## Bierstadt C&S station (1906). ## Fairview, Pleasant Prairie, Bradshaw, Spencer, Log District, Forest View, Elton, Columbine, Stout School-district communities. ## Chenoweth, Laketon, Melville, Kanza, Graceland, Bland, Clemmons/Schley Elbert County post offices. Scott (1999) marks Chenoweth, Bland and Clemmons/Schley, but Schley and Clemmons fall 1.2-1.4 miles from their Place Names of Colorado sections, and Chenoweth and Bland have none to check against. ## Tip Top Rock Island station at 6,887 feet (1906). ## Resolis Rock Island post village; PO 1890-1914. ## Amo, Sun View, Suffolk, Squirrel Creek, Albano, Curtis, Halfway, Surber, Burt, Mosby, Gleneath, Majors, Dragoo, Bardeen Eastern El Paso post offices. ## Keysor, Yoman, Benko, Buick, Lowland Elbert and Lincoln post offices. ## Woodmen, Templeton Gap, McFerran South edge.