# Freedom School

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/freedom-school/

- Kind: Schools
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1883, -104.9234 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Named on the county map without a description (S-0123). Robert LeFevre, then a Gazette-Telegraph editorial writer, founded the Freedom School at Larkspur in 1956 and added Rampart College, an unaccredited four-year school, on the same campus in 1963, with its Pine Tree Press; a flood in 1965 devastated the campus (Wikipedia, 'Robert LeFevre,' rev. of Oct. 1, 2026, S-0048). The article says both that the school moved to Santa Ana, California, after the flood and that LeFevre ran it in Larkspur until 1973; PPLD's clipping file tags the Freedom School with a flood. The county's landmark page (designated March 24, 2015) says LeFevre established the school in 1955, it 'officially opened on June 3, 1957' with four students, and by late 1963 it was renamed Rampart College; 13 rustic stone-and-log buildings contribute (S-0126).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-047; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. 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-0017: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0017
- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0048: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0048
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123
- S-0126: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0126

## Nearby

- [Stone Canyon School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/stone-canyon-school/): 0.1 mi south
- [Huntsville post office (1871)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville-post-office-1871/): 0.7 mi northeast
- [Stone Canyon Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/stone-canyon-cemetery/): 1.2 mi northeast
- [Stensma child's grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/stensma-childs-grave/): 1.5 mi north
- [Larkspur's first school lot (1872)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspurs-first-school-lot-1872/): 1.6 mi northeast
- [Eagle Mountain Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/eagle-mountain-ranch/): 1.7 mi east

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