# Crull-Hammond cabin

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/
- Also known as: Huntsville historical site
- Kind: Historic homes and cabins
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2716, -104.899 (from a cited description (about half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Log cabin whose logs were felled between August 1873 and June 1874 (University of Arizona tree-ring report, 2000, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 pp. 121-126), on land Christopher Crull entered in 1869; who built it is unsettled. Crull reopened the Huntsville post office on April 8, 1869.

## Where it was

The county's 0.73-acre 'Historical Site' in the NW1/4 of Sec. 16, T9S R67W, just west of Bear Dance Drive, computed from the 2005 survey description (David E. Archer & Associates, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 144); good to about 100 feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Huntsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/): 0.3 mi southeast
- [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 0.8 mi south
- [Sawmill on the 1866 survey](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/): 0.8 mi southeast
- [Glade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/): 2.1 mi northeast
- [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 2.1 mi north
- [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 2.6 mi southwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.