# Monument creamery (Carlson & Frink)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-creamery-carlson-and-frink/

- Kind: Cheese factories, creameries and other works
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0911, -104.8688 (street address)

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Carlson and Frink's creamery; P. C. Hagedorn and his sons Bryan and Marion ran it from 1911 to 1917, when selling milk and cream was the farmer's only cash income before harvest (S-0011). In the blizzard of 1913 Melvin Olson and his brother broke a trail through five-foot drifts so the milk wagons could reach the Monument creamery; it took three days, with 20 other wagons following (Olson's obituary, May 12, 1983; S-0199). Andrew and Florence Cobel, later operators, made 'thousands of pounds of Black Diamond cheese every year', and the creamery shipped several loads of milk a day by rail (S-0021, p. 35, with a photograph of the 'MONUMENT CREAMERY'). Clarence B. Frink's 1918 sketch lists Monument among the company's branch creameries, run from Larkspur (Stone, S-0193, vol. 4 p. 406).

## Where it was

'Site of the Monument Creamery', 366 Second Street (PLHS walking tour, S-0235), El Paso County address point (EPCPortalLocator2026, 2026-10-14). Lavelett: 'It was located just east of the Santa Fe tracks and at the time was located at the east end of Second Street' (Through the Years at Monument, S-0011, p. 89), which fits. Good to about 100 feet.

A street address, located with the county's address points.

## Sources

- S-0002: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0002
- S-0011: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0011
- S-0021: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0021
- S-0104: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0104
- S-0193: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0193
- S-0199: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0199
- S-0235: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0235

## Nearby

- [Santa Fe underpass, Highway 105 (1927-28)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-underpass-highway-105-1927-28/): 0.0 mi north
- [Monument public school (1890s)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-public-school-1890s/): 0.1 mi west
- [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.1 mi west
- [Colonel and Mrs. Ford's home, Monument (about 1875)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/colonel-and-mrs-fords-home-monument-about-1875/): 0.2 mi west
- [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.2 mi west
- [Santa Fe depot, Monument (about 1887 to the 1940s)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-depot-monument-about-1887-to-the-1940s/): 0.2 mi northwest

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