What we know
Dr. William Thompson, the town's founder, gave Palmer Lake a schoolhouse in 1888: grades 1-8, one teacher, 20 to 30 pupils. It served until 1934, when Palmer Lake Elementary opened on Upper Glenway, and became a residence (Case 2019).
Where it was
275 South Valley Road ('still standing at 275 S. Valley Road', Linda Saulnier Case, Tribune, Feb. 13, 2019, S-0110), El Paso County address point (EPCPortalLocator2026, 2026-10-06).
A street address, located with the county's address points.
Sources
- S-0104: El Paso County GIS: address locators and parcels
- S-0108: The Gazette and The Tribune (Pikes Peak Newspapers) on gazette.com: local-history columns and features
- S-0110: Linda Saulnier Case, "Monumental Happenings and Histories" (The Tribune, 2018–2019), part of S-0108
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.