Palmer Divide Research

Wilson's Store and Bakery

Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950Living todayEl Paso County

What we know

Gambrel-roofed building of 1900 where Fred Wilson, from 1905, ran a bakery and sold groceries, dry goods and hardware (PPLD record of survey B52).

Where it was

270 South Valley Road (PPLD record of survey photo B52), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05).

A street address, located with the county's address points.

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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.

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