What we know
'The large mountain west of Monument over-shadowing Monument Lake,' named for Herman Schwanbeck, a German pioneer who homesteaded just east of town (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 7). The Mt. Herman Planting Station of 1907, the start of the Monument Nursery, took its name. A fringe place, just outside the Divide outline.
Where it was
USGS GNIS summit 'Mount Herman', El Paso County (2021 Colorado file, S-0007). Good to a few hundred feet.
Sources
- S-0006: USGS Geographic Names Information System, Colorado file, 2021-08-25 edition
- S-0007: USGS GNIS DomesticNames, Colorado (current edition)
- S-0011: Lucille Lavelett, Through the Years at Monument, Colorado: The Story of Monument, Colorado, 5th printing (Palmer Lake: Palmer Lake Historical Society, 2004); first published Colorado Springs: Valliant Press, 1975
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.