# The Big Cabin (Hageman place)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/the-big-cabin-hageman-place/
- Also known as: the old Hageman place
- Kind: Historic homes and cabins
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.021, -104.6911 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

A large jack-pine log house with a story told by the Black Forest News in 1960, not yet checked against other sources: built by a woman spiritualist who held seances, then used by a bootlegger with a still, who traded it to Rev. and Mrs. E. D. Hageman just ahead of the law. In the 1930s it was the meeting place of the Seth Parker meetings, when the Forest had no church, and of summer Christian Endeavor gatherings, with a bunkhouse out back; Hageman preached in the schoolhouse. Hageman recalled the Decoration Day storm of 1935, when hail lay seven inches deep and a wall of water 70 feet wide came down the ravine beside the house; the paper adds that the creek was called Kettle Creek because settlers traded copper kettles to Indians camped there, a story it gives without a source (S-0141). Mrs. Hageman wrote the 'Black Forest Gazoottee,' a mimeographed weekly of Forest news from 1934 through World War II, and mailed 80 copies a week to servicemen overseas (Black Forest News, April 1, 1960, S-0141).

## Where it was

'At the junction of Brentwood Dr. and Pinery Rd., stands a large log house' (Black Forest News, May 13, 1960, S-0141); placed where Brentwood Drive meets today's Pinery Drive in OpenStreetMap. 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-0016: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0016
- S-0103: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0103
- S-0141: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0141

## Nearby

- [Casteel cabin and store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/): 0.5 mi southwest
- [Perkins and Barrett fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/perkins-and-barrett-fox-farm/): 0.7 mi southeast
- [Wolford house (1934-38)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wolford-house-1934-38/): 0.7 mi southeast
- [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.8 mi southwest
- [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.8 mi southwest
- [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.8 mi southwest

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