# Monument Nursery

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-nursery/
- Also known as: Mt. Herman Planting Station
- Kind: Cheese factories, creameries and other works
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.085, -104.9053 (USGS GNIS point)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Founded 1907 as the Mt. Herman Planting Station: Walter Schrader spaded its first seed bed that year (Lavelett, S-0011 p. 92, and a CRN post; a 2007 PLHS newsletter says 1904). It grew trees to replant the 15,000 acres burned in the Mt. Herman fire of the 1880s and later for shelterbelts; a CCC camp from 1933; closed in 1965 and moved to Basalt (Lavelett pp. 92-94).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Locale 193247

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

## Nearby

- [Hanks and Doyle icehouses, Monument Lake](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hanks-and-doyle-icehouses-monument-lake/): 1.5 mi east
- [McShane's stone fort](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshanes-stone-fort/): 1.8 mi northeast
- [McShane Home](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mcshane-home/): 1.8 mi northeast
- [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 1.8 mi east
- [Lierd's Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lierds-store/): 1.8 mi east
- [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 1.8 mi east

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