What we know
The Pine Grove post office, applied for in July 1863 'on the bank of Cherry Creek,' established Dec. 8, 1870, with the local name '20 Mile House' (1871), NW1/4 Sec. 22, T6S R66W; discontinued Nov. 1877, re-established Dec. 18, 1877 with James S. Parker as postmaster, and renamed Parker on March 17, 1882 (Bauer, via S-0123). Nelson and Susan Doud owned the 20-Mile House in 1870. The society's Earth map marks the Twenty Mile House stage stop here.
Where it was
Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-161, S-0123), placed from Bauer's quarter-section description. 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-0044: Books to borrow on the Internet Archive (controlled lending, in copyright; catalog records in archive/railroads/catalog/IN-COPYRIGHT-CATALOG.tsv)
- 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.