What we know
Lawrence and Olive Waterhouse homesteaded 160 acres among the Roxborough red rocks in 1910 and built a 14-by-24-foot brick house with brick from the Silica Brick Company; corn, cane, wheat, oats, cattle and hogs. He died in 1925 and she sold in 1927; the land became part of Roxborough State Park in 1997 (county map, S-0123).
Where it was
On the fringe of the Divide outline (3.9 miles outside its edge), included as a fringe place. Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-031; S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. 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.