What we know

Golddale post office, June 29, 1882 to Feb. 12, 1885, George S. McCracken postmaster, mail to Franktown (Bauer, Post Offices of Douglas County, 2003, via S-0123). Bauer puts it about three miles south of Russellville, so the office was not at Russellville itself (see the Russellville entry).

Where it was

Bauer's description, as given on the county map (DCHR-144, S-0123): a ranch in the northeast quadrant of Russellville Road and Anderson Road (County Road 52), 3.3 miles south of Tomichi Road, the road to the Russellville site; the map's pin is there. 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

S-0044: Books to borrow on the Internet Archive (controlled lending, in copyright; catalog records in archive/railroads/catalog/IN-COPYRIGHT-CATALOG.tsv)
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.

Know more about Golddale post office?

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