Palmer Divide Research

Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds

Other sitesHistoric or vanishedEl Paso County

What we know

Site of the Rocky Mountain Chautauqua Assembly, 1886/87 to 1910 (PPLD records of survey B54).

Where it was

'Near Crescent and Walnut Avenues in Glen Park' (PPLD records of survey photos B54); that junction in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05). Good to a few hundred feet.

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 Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.