What we know
Charles F. Wilson's 'beautiful addition, Palmer Lake park': in May 1890 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson of Denver chose a site there for a home and meant to build a cottage at once; their tenth-anniversary party was held at their home at Palmer Lake park that August, and summer visitors from Denver, Omaha and Monument were 'sojourning at Palmer Lake park' in July 1891 (Rocky Mountain News, May 12 and Aug. 19, 1890; July 5, 1891; S-0118). The society's map places it in Douglas County, northwest of the lake.
Where it was
Pin in the Larkspur Historical Society's Google Earth version of the county map ('DC Resources,' Settlement folder), read from the feature's card on screen, 2026-10-07 (S-0123). The card has no description; good to about a quarter mile.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0016: Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (coloradohistoricnewspapers.org)
- S-0045: Larkspur Historical Society website (larkspurhistoricalsociety.org)
- S-0118: CHNC newspapers: the Palmer Lake sweep, 1884–1900 (headline search "Palmer Lake")
- 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.