Palmer Divide Research

Forest View School site

Also: the Bleeker (Blecker) School, moved

SchoolsHistoric or vanishedEl Paso County

What we know

One-room school first built on the Angling (now Vollmer) Road, 'just north of the intersection with Black Forest Road' (von Ahlefeldt) or 'about a half a mile from Black Forest Road' (Ellett), and named for its first teacher. It was moved to Black Forest Road (then Table Rock Road) about World War I (von Ahlefeldt) or in 1921-22 (Ellett) and renamed Forest View. Pupils went to Falcon from 1945, and the building was moved to Colorado Springs as a house. Six trees, the foundation and an ash pit marked the site (Ellett pp. 27-28, 42; von Ahlefeldt pp. 100-101).

Where it was

On Black Forest Road 'right across from the Kit Carson Riding Club arena' (Ellett p. 28), the arena in OpenStreetMap; von Ahlefeldt (p. 101) has the Bleeker School moved 'a few hundred yards west' from the Angling (Vollmer) Road to Black Forest Road. 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.

See it on the map

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.

Know more about Forest View School site?

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