What we know
Marked 'Coal Shed?' beside the railroad between Larkspur and Greenland on the society's Earth map, with the society's own question mark and no description (S-0123). In 1902 the Santa Fe was reported ready to move its coal chutes from Palmer Lake to Larkspur (S-0122); whether this is related is not known.
Where it was
Pin in the Larkspur Historical Society's Google Earth version of the county map ('DC Resources,' top-level point), read from the feature's card on screen, 2026-10-07 (S-0123). Good to a few hundred feet as a pin; what stood here is unconfirmed.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0045: Larkspur Historical Society website (larkspurhistoricalsociety.org)
- S-0122: CHNC newspapers: the Larkspur sweep, 1873–1930 (headline search "Larkspur," 1871–1930)
- S-0123: Douglas County Historic Resource Map (Douglas County Community Planning and Sustainable Development, the Douglas County History Research Center of Douglas County Libraries, and the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board, 2012), as put on Google Maps and Google Earth by the Larkspur Historical Society
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.