What we know
Perry Park post office, March 11, 1892 to Jan. 31, 1906, Frank Gilpin first postmaster, mail to Larkspur; NE1/4 Sec. 22, T9S R68W, 1 1/2 miles west of West Plum Creek (Bauer, via S-0123; the 1892 site report agrees, S-0113).
Where it was
Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-160, S-0123), placed from Bauer's quarter-section 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-0044: Books to borrow on the Internet Archive (controlled lending, in copyright)
- S-0113: U.S. Post Office Department, Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950 (NARA microfilm M1126), Colorado rolls 73 and 74: Douglas, Elbert and El Paso counties
- 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.