What we know
Founded 1907 as the Mt. Herman Planting Station: Walter Schrader spaded its first seed bed that year (Lavelett, S-0011 p. 92, and a CRN post; a 2007 PLHS newsletter says 1904). It grew trees to replant the 15,000 acres burned in the Mt. Herman fire of the 1880s and later for shelterbelts; a CCC camp from 1933; closed in 1965 and moved to Basalt (Lavelett pp. 92-94).
Where it was
USGS GNIS Locale 193247
The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.
Sources
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.