Palmer Divide Research

Larkspur's first school lot (1872)

Also: School District No. 15

SchoolsHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

The district's first school site; the schoolhouse was moved into Larkspur in 1889-90.

Where it was

NE1/4 NW1/4 Sec. 9, T10S R67W: 'Morris Blodget did take the patent on NE1/4NW1/4 Section 9-10-67 on 6-10-1872. That quarter section is identified in the school deed recorded 6-29-1872 in Book C Page 29' (Larkspur society email, 2010, Larkspur Historical Society binder 1 p. 305).

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

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 Larkspur's first school lot (1872)?

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