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.
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.