# Sawmill on the 1866 survey

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sawmill-on-the-1866-survey/
- Also known as: probably D. C. Oakes's mill, Huntsville
- Kind: Sawmills
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.261, -104.8926 (from a cited description (about half a mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

The only mill on the line in 1866, 11.4 chains (about 750 feet) east of the People's Fort. Olive Oakes put her husband's fort 'about twenty-five yards to the south of D.C.'s sawmill' (as summarized on a draft panel, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 378); the survey's spacing is wider, so whose mill this was is not settled.

## Where it was

General Land Office field notes, T9S R67W (Pierce, 1866), p. 93: '51.50 Saw mill 2 ch N. of line' between Secs. 21 and 16, 1.4 chains west of Plum Creek (Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 120). 51.50 of 80.20 chains along the section line, 2 chains north; good to about 100 feet.

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

## Nearby

- [People's Fort (1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/peoples-fort-1864/): 0.1 mi west
- [Huntsville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville/): 0.5 mi north
- [Crull-Hammond cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/crull-hammond-cabin/): 0.8 mi northwest
- [American Federation of Human Rights headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/american-federation-of-human-rights-headquarters/): 2.2 mi south
- [Larkspur](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur/): 2.3 mi south
- [Larkspur School (1896)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/larkspur-school-1896/): 2.3 mi south

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