What we know
District 36, founded June 1913 for the children of the Du Pont powder works' employees, in a building and teacherage Du Pont supplied; usually three classrooms; children from the 'flats' and the 'hill' were the 'flat rats' and 'hill brats.' Closed and torn down in 1961 (county map, S-0123).
Where it was
On the fringe of the Divide outline (3.1 miles outside its edge), included as a fringe place. Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-195; S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- 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.