Palmer Divide Research

Black Forest Community Hall

Other historic buildingsLiving todayEl Paso County

What we know

Log community hall at the Black Forest crossroads, next to the 1922 log school. The Community Club organized in March 1929; Cort Burgess gave the land north of the store, and residents cut and hauled the logs, building it in 1929-30 (Ellett pp. 21, 54).

Where it was

A street address, located with the county's address points.

See it on the map

Sources

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.

Know more about Black Forest Community Hall?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.