What we know

Irving post office, moved from Case June 24, 1913 (John W. Hill, postmaster), discontinued April 15, 1920, mail to Cherry; NE1/4 Sec. 8, T9S R65W, 300 feet north of East Cherry Creek (Bauer, via S-0123). The county map says it was named for W. I. (Washington Irving) Whittier, postmaster, minister, teacher and editor of the Castle Rock Journal.

Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-150, S-0123), placed from Bauer's quarter-section description. 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.

See it on the map

Sources

S-0016: Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (coloradohistoricnewspapers.org)
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.

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