Palmer Divide Research

Black Forest Baptist Assembly

ChurchesHistoric or vanishedEl Paso County

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.

See it on the map

Sources

Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.

Know more about Black Forest Baptist Assembly?

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