# Huntsville

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/
- Also known as: the 1869 post office (Crull)
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2678, -104.8953 (from a cited description (good to half a mile))
- Post office: Huntsville, 1860–1871

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Larkspur's predecessor. PO from March 24, 1860; reopened Jan. 22, 1862 under D. C. Oakes; closed Aug. 29, 1867; reopened under Crull April 8, 1869; renamed Larkspur Dec. 13, 1871, when the office moved to the railroad. Hiram P. Bennet's 1862 application says an older Huntsville two miles west had been abandoned after a failed water mill (Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 408, via a digest; not yet).

## Where it was

Center of Sec. 16, T9S R67W: the post office site report signed by William Crull, May 1869, gives 'Huntsville … Section No. 16, in Township nine' south, nearest creek 'Plum', Monument 12 miles southerly (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 58, OCR; the range is illegible in the OCR). Good to about half a mile. The 1866 survey puts a road, the People's Fort and a sawmill on the south line of Sec. 16 (Pierce, Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 120); local accounts put Huntsville 'at the clay pits, two miles north of Larkspur' (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 pp. 20, 24, via a helper's digest).

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

## Nearby

- [Crull-Hammond cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/): 0.3 mi northwest
- [Sawmill on the 1866 survey](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/): 0.5 mi south
- [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 0.5 mi south
- [Glade](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glade/): 2.2 mi northeast
- [Tomah](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/tomah/): 2.4 mi north
- [Cantril homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cantril-homestead/): 2.7 mi west

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