Keystone post office (1871-72)

Name: Keystone post office (1871-72)
Address: CO, US

Keystone post office (1871-72) is a historic or vanished place in Douglas County, Colorado, on the Palmer Divide, listed here under post offices and stage stations.

Also: Keystone #2

Post offices and stage stationsHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

Keystone's second site, NW1/4 SE1/4 Sec. 34, T6S R68W, a quarter mile east of Plum Creek, from March 28, 1871 until the office closed Oct. 28, 1872 (Bauer, via S-0123). The first site, from 1869 at Craig's Ranch near the forks of Plum Creek, is our Keystone point.

Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-152, 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-0044: Books to borrow on the Internet Archive (controlled lending, in copyright)
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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