What we know
Organized Feb. 18, 1874 at Spring Valley; it met at the schoolhouse (1878, 1900) and ran a co-operative store, sold to Jacob Geiger in April 1884 ('Call on the wild Dutchman,' his 1881 advertisement); Jacob Geiger was master in 1900 (Castle Rock Journal and Douglas County News items quoted on the county map, S-0123).
Where it was
Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-075; S-0123), at the grange's meeting place; good to a few hundred feet.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0016: Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (coloradohistoricnewspapers.org)
- 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.