# Lucas dairy

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lucas-dairy/
- Also known as: Shady Springs Ranch; Essington; Hagspiel
- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2576, -104.6771 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Settled by Caleb Essington about 1890 and part of the Hagspiel ranch from 1907; Verna and Hugh Lucas dairied and raised wheat and hay here from 1920 for 61 years. On East Cherry Creek; fossil titanothere bones have been found on the place. Douglas County landmark, 2009 (county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-015; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, 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-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Whittier farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/whittier-farm/): 1.3 mi west
- [Great Divide Grange No. 166](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/great-divide-grange-no-166/): 1.3 mi west
- [Dumont barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dumont-barn/): 1.3 mi west
- [Rock Ridge School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-school/): 1.4 mi northwest
- [Case post office (1897)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/case-post-office-1897/): 1.5 mi west
- [Rock Ridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/): 1.6 mi west

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