What we know
After about 1864 Sarah Coberly kept her stage stop on East Plum Creek, beside the People's Fort, until about 1869 (Scott, S-0106); she later married William Crull, who kept the Huntsville post office here from 1866 (Jackson, via S-0123). The society's Earth map marks this as 'Coberly Halfway House #2'; its #1 matches our Coberly's Half-Way House on Spring Creek.
Where it was
Pin in the Larkspur Historical Society's Google Earth version of the county map ('DC Resources,' Stage Stop folder), read from the feature's card on screen, 2026-10-07 (S-0123). Scott places the Coberlys' second site in the S1/2 of Sec. 16, T9S R67W, beside the People's Fort (S-0106); this pin is 0.3 mile from the Crull-Hammond cabin. 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.
Sources
- S-0045: Larkspur Historical Society website (larkspurhistoricalsociety.org)
- S-0106: Glenn R. Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1° × 2° Quadrangle, Central Colorado (USGS Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2639)
- 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.