What we know
Built in 1914; the Yule Log hunt, begun in 1934 in a private home (PLHS newsletters), has long centered on the Town Hall (OCN gives 1933); Colorado State Register of Historic Properties, Sept. 25, 2019. The town's star on Sundance Mountain, first lit in December 1935, was listed in January 2013 (OCN reports of PLHS talks, S-0112).
Where it was
42 Valley Crescent (OCN, 2024; a 2026 OCN item gives 28 Valley Crescent, which the county locator puts 13 m away), El Paso County address point (EPCPortalLocator2026, 2026-10-06).
A street address, located with the county's address points.
Sources
- S-0002: Palmer Lake Historical Society website (palmerdividehistory.org)
- S-0104: El Paso County GIS: address locators and parcels
- S-0112: Our Community News (ocn.me), Monument: items on the Chamber's meeting house (the Gwillimville schoolhouse)
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.