Palmer Divide Research

Gomer's Mill

Also: the Kiowa Mill · P. P. Gomer's sawmills

SawmillsHistoric or vanishedElbert County

What we know

P. P. Gomer's sawmills, 'considered the largest in the State' in the 1870s; the post office 'at Gomer's Mills' opened June 13, 1870 and became Elbert in 1882, when the business moved to the railroad. S. C. Stout was tie inspector here from 1869. Andrew Peterson was shot near Gomer's Mill by Evan Hall in 1872 (von Ahlefeldt p. 73).

Where it was

'Gomers Mill 1864': Scott, Historic Trail Map of the Denver 1x2 Quadrangle (USGS I-2639, 1999, S-0106), symbol read from the reprojected sheet good to a few hundred feet). Sec. 22, T10S R64W. 4.6 miles from Scott's Bijou Basin point, against 'five miles from Bijou Basin' (1870); 10 miles north-northeast of the first Easton post office, against 'about eight miles north-east of Easton' (fire reports, 1874, 1876); 'on the head of Kiowa Creek' (Crofutt). Place Names of Colorado's Sec. 15, T10S R62W does not fit any of them.

Read from Glenn R. Scott's USGS historic trail map of 1999 and confirmed by a second, independent source.

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.

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