Pleasant Valley Grange No. 33

Pleasant Valley Grange No. 33 is a historic or vanished place in Douglas County, Colorado, on the Palmer Divide, listed here under other historic buildings.

Other historic buildingsHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

Organized Jan. 15, 1874 in the Bear Canon district, with H. H. Curtis as master and its post office at Bear Canon; it later merged with the Sedalia and Plum Creek granges into Plum Creek Grange (State Grange history; Douglas County News, 1975, via the county map, S-0123).

Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-070; S-0123), at the grange's meeting place; good to a few hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

See it on the map

Sources

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.

Know more about Pleasant Valley Grange No. 33?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.