# Casteel cabin and store

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/casteel-cabin-and-store/

- Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0176, -104.7001 (street address)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Two-story log cabin with a stable and a large log building that PPLD's cataloger calls 'likely a former store' (survey B24, summer 1976; the 1987 Black Forest Preservation Plan's Map 2 No. 14). Phoebe Casteel, wife of a Brentwood employee, ran a store and restaurant in her large cabin from 1925 (von Ahlefeldt p. 96, who puts it 'just south of the Black Forest intersection'). Ellett (p. 7) puts her store 'a quarter of a mile north of Shoup Road on Black Forest Road', as the survey address does: an unlocked cabin store ('help yourself, but close the door'), Sunday chicken dinners for twenty, and boarders in her eight-room house. Her daughter Beth Cadle was one of von Ahlefeldt's sources.

## Where it was

12845 Black Forest Road (PPLD records of survey photos B24), El Paso County address point (county locator, 2026-10-05).

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

## Nearby

- [Black Forest Community Hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-hall/): 0.3 mi south
- [Black Forest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest/): 0.3 mi south
- [Black Forest Log School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-log-school/): 0.3 mi south
- [Black Forest General Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-general-store/): 0.3 mi south
- [Black Forest Community Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/black-forest-community-church/): 0.4 mi south
- [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 0.6 mi south

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.