# Huntsville (1860 site)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville-1860-site/
- Also known as: the first Huntsville post office
- Kind: Post offices and stage stations
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2567, -104.9486 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

The first Huntsville post office, March 25, 1860 to July 9, 1861, Henry H. McAfee postmaster; a sawmill town that failed for want of water in West Plum Creek (Bauer, via S-0123; other sources give March 24, 1860). H. P. Bennet's 1862 letter puts the first town 'some two miles west' of the later Huntsville on East Plum Creek (S-0113).

## Where it was

Bauer's best determination, as given on the county map (DCHR-147, S-0123): on West Plum Creek a short distance south of where Tomah Road meets Perry Park Road, probably 'Plum Creek Hollow,' 7335 Perry Park Road; the map's pin. Good to about a quarter mile.

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

## Sources

- S-0044: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0044
- S-0113: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0113
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Glen Grove School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-school/): 0.3 mi north
- [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 0.4 mi southeast
- [Quick stone house (1884)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1884/): 0.7 mi northwest
- [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 0.8 mi north
- [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 1.0 mi northwest
- [Kinner house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kinner-house/): 1.2 mi northwest

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