What we know
Robert Woodhouse's father bought 80 acres from Greenleaf Lowell in 1873, added a timber claim and a pre-emption, lived in a dugout while building a house that burned, and sold butter in Denver; houses, a barn and three windmills over 50 years old remain. Colorado Centennial Farm, 1986 (county map, S-0123; S-0128).
Where it was
On the fringe of the Divide outline (2.6 miles outside its edge), included as a fringe place. Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-042; 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
- S-0128: Colorado Historical Society, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Colorado Centennial Farms list (2010) and award texts
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.