D&RG station 'Divide'; PO Weissport from July 21, 1875; Thompson's resort platted in the 1880s; Chautauqua at Glen Park from 1887; incorporated Feb. 23, 1889.
Today:Town of Palmer Lake
Where it was
USGS GNIS Populated Place 204794
The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.
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.
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