What we know
Organized Dec. 8, 1907 at Manhart Hall, Sedalia, with 81 members (A. H. White, master); its own 32-by-80-foot hall, built with donated labor, opened in 1916; the Plum Creek flood of June 16, 1965 wiped it out, and the grange rebuilt with a barracks from Lowry Air Force Base; about 100 members in 1921 (State Grange history, pp. 141-143; Record Journal, 1921; via the county map, S-0123).
Where it was
Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-078; 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.
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.