# Santa Fe depot, Monument (about 1887 to the 1940s)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-depot-monument-about-1887-to-the-1940s/

- Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0932, -104.87 (from a cited description)

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

The site of the Santa Fe's Monument depot, 'ca. 1887', which the society calls 'the second depot for the Santa Fe line' (PLHS walking tour, S-0235). The town granted the Santa Fe its right-of-way in 1887. Each Monument depot had an agent and two operators; E. W. Hunt was the Santa Fe agent for many years and W. N. Willis the last, and DeLos Barnhardt was its section boss (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 63, with a photograph of the depot and Willis about 1947, p. 67). After block signals came in during the 1940s, both Monument depots were closed, moved near Highway 105 and made into restaurants about 1949, then torn down and burned (pp. 63-64). The Santa Fe tracks were torn out in November 1974 (p. 64), and the grade became the trail in 1980 (S-0235). See Monument D&RG depot.

## Where it was

'300-314 3rd St.' (PLHS walking tour, S-0235); placed where the old Santa Fe grade, now the New Santa Fe Regional Trail, crosses Third Street in OpenStreetMap, which is also where the tour's map put it. Good to about 200 feet.

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

## Sources

- S-0002: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0002
- S-0011: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0011
- S-0103: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0103
- S-0235: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0235

## Nearby

- [Presbyterian parsonage, Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/presbyterian-parsonage-monument/): 0.1 mi west
- [Monument Presbyterian Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-presbyterian-church/): 0.1 mi west
- [Santa Fe agents' home, Monument (about 1890)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-agents-home-monument-about-1890/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [Santa Fe section crew bunkhouse, Monument (about 1890)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-crew-bunkhouse-monument-about-1890/): 0.1 mi southwest
- [Methodist parsonage (Father Dyer, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/methodist-parsonage-father-dyer-1874/): 0.1 mi southwest
- [Santa Fe underpass, Highway 105 (1927-28)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-underpass-highway-105-1927-28/): 0.1 mi southeast

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.