# Russellville

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/russellville/
- Also known as: Gold Dale (1880s); Golddale PO
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3469, -104.6969 (USGS GNIS point)
- Post office: Russellville, 1862; Golddale, 1882–1885

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Where the Russell party found gold on the head of Cherry Creek (late August 1857, per Robert McBride in 1873; June 1858 per Hall); the Russellville Town company was organized Dec. 8, 1858. In 1859 'chock-full of stores and saloons, boarding houses, blacksmith shops, sawmills'; by 1867 'only one house in the "city," and that's the stage stopping place for grub' on the Denver & Santa Fe line, kept by Palmer (1869-70). Military company organized here in 1868. Renamed Gold Dale for the 1880s placer revival (John Ferris's pumps and sluices, 1885); Golddale PO 1882-85.

## Where it was

USGS GNIS Locale 185142. 'Some six miles to the west of' Elizabeth station (News, 1884); 'five miles southeast of the present Frankstown' (Hall 1891); 'thirty-five miles up the Divide' from Denver (News, 1869).

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

## Nearby

- [Reynolds gang shot (Sept. 1864)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-gang-shot-sept-1864/): 0.2 mi east
- [Wyatt's sawmill (1859)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wyatts-sawmill-1859/): 0.2 mi west
- [Bartruff graves](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bartruff-graves/): 3.2 mi southwest
- [Castlewood Canyon Dam](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castlewood-canyon-dam/): 3.2 mi west
- [Franktown Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown-cemetery/): 4.3 mi northwest
- [Franktown](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/franktown/): 4.3 mi northwest

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