Palmer Divide Research

Pratt / Cherry School

Also: School District No. 20

SchoolsHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

The Pratt district school (District 20) on land given by Gideon C. Pratt; it burned in 1899 and was rebuilt; later the Cherry School, 11201 S. Hwy 83 (NE corner, Sec. 12, T10S R66W), sold in 1953.

Where it was

USGS GNIS Locale 193198, Cherry School (GNIS)

The official point of a school, cemetery or store of the same name, standing in for the place itself.

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 Pratt / Cherry School?

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