# Guire homestead ('Willow Grove')

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/guire-homestead-willow-grove/
- Also known as: Henry Guire's
- Kind: Historic homes and cabins
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0932, -104.8555 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Henry Guire's homestead. The Guires came from Iowa in the 1860s with willow cuttings kept alive in barrels; the willows still stood at the Guire and Dolan homes in 1974. Their house was stone with two-foot walls and portholes. The settlement's first community Christmas tree was here, and Utes camped in the Guire meadow (Lavelett, S-0011, pp. 3-6). The survey lists David Guire's (1 mile west) and Joe Guire's (2 miles southwest) homesteads under the same name.

## Where it was

'Willow grove, guire homestead, hwy. 105, 1 mi. e. of monument' (survey B41, S-0101); Henry Guire's home 'just one mile east of Monument' (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 6). Placed one mile east of Front and Second streets along Highway 105 in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-06); the old road's line may differ. Good to about half a mile.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Gwillimville schoolhouse (now the Chamber's meeting house)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-schoolhouse-now-the-chambers-meeting-house/): 0.4 mi west
- [Woodmoor](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodmoor/): 0.7 mi northeast
- [Santa Fe bridge collapse (July 17, 1895)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-bridge-collapse-july-17-1895/): 0.8 mi southwest
- [Santa Fe stone arch bridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-stone-arch-bridge/): 0.8 mi southwest
- [Monument Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-cemetery/): 0.8 mi northwest
- [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.8 mi west

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