Palmer Divide Research

Perkins and Barrett fox farm

Fox and fur farmsHistoric or vanishedEl Paso County

What we know

Jim Perkins and Roy Barrett's fox farm, 1930s (von Ahlefeldt p. 92).

Where it was

'At the northeast corner of Shoup and Herring Roads' (von Ahlefeldt p. 92); Ellett (p. 66) has it 'on Vollmer and Hering Roads'. Placed at the NE corner of the junction in OpenStreetMap; good to about a quarter mile.

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 Perkins and Barrett fox farm?

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