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.
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.