What we know
A coal, sandstone and limestone camp: about 50 people, two boarding houses, six houses and a store in 1887; ten carloads of coal and two of lime shipped one week in December 1888; the mine caved in early in 1892; the rails came up in 1902 and the mine reopened in 1903 (Castle Rock Journal, 1887-92, via the county map, S-0123). Served by the D&RG's Lehigh branch.
Where it was
On the fringe of the Divide outline (2.9 miles outside its edge), included as a fringe place. Point in the 2011 KML of the county's Historic Resource Map (Settlement folder; S-0123). Good to a few hundred feet as a pin.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0016: Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (coloradohistoricnewspapers.org)
- 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.