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F E A T U R E S 6 Tri-Lakes Saw Mills

10 History of Palmer Lake

12 Western Museum of Mining & Industry

18 Tri-Lakes Fur Trade

24 Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts

T R I - L A K E S I N F O 8 Town of Monument Town of Palmer Lake

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Black Forest, a very prosperous land, thick with trees in the mid-1800s; and railroads, with a need for lumber to sup-ply growing towns along the tracks, were soon dot-ted by sawmills on the landscape.

Those who owned saw mills reaped in prosperity, especially General Wil-liam Jackson Palmer, who once owned most of Black

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Forest which at that time was called the Pinery.

“General Palmer bought a huge amount of land out there. He bought it for $2 an acre,” Judy von Ahle-feldt, author of “Thunder, Sun and Snow: The His-tory of Colorado’s Black Forest,” said.

It all began in 1860 when a man by the name of Robert Finley came to Black Forest and brought in the fi rst sawmill opera-tion. The sawmill industry lasted well into the 1940s with just a handful still operating in the 1950s and 1960s. The sawmills also operated in outlying ar-eas of Black Forest as well including Spring Creek, Husted, Table Rock, Ea-tonville and possibly even Monument. In 1970 von Ahlefeldt moved to Black Forest and remembers a sawmill that was still up and running.

In her book von Ahle-feldt talks about the differ-ent sawmills. Jerome Weir and business partner Judd bought the Finley mill in 1863. According to an arti-cle in the Douglas County News dated June 23, 1966 the very fi rst post offi ce in Eastonville was located in the Weir sawmill. In 1865 Calvin Husted started his mill on Monument Creek near Husted while Phil-ip P. Gomer established Gomer’s Mill northeast of Eastonville on Kiowa Creek.

Gomer’s Mill was a ma-jor supplier of timber to the Kansas Pacifi c Rail-road which was located

north east of Black Forest according to von Ahle-feldt’s book. She goes on to say that Palmer was di-rector of construction for the railroad but had plans to start his own railroad and would need timber for that. In 1869 he formed the Colorado Pinery Trust Company and purchased more than 43,000 acres of land in Elbert and El Paso Counties.

Another big mill op-eration came in 1917 and that was the Edgar Lum-ber and Box Company. A majority of the saw mills according to von Ahle-feldt’s book were located in Black Forest.

Saw mills in outlying areasH.C. Blakely owned a

saw mill north of Monu-ment, possibly in Palmer Lake, in 1875. Someone by the name of Huddle owned a mill in Monu-ment in the early 1900s,

according to von Ahle-feldt’s book, but no details are given. Rogers Davis, museum director for the Lucretia Vaile Museum in Palmer Lake, said one well known family from Mon-ument owned a saw mill.

“The Schubarth fam-ily had one but no one knows specifi cally where it was,” Davis said, adding that Schubarth most like-ly had a portable saw mill.

“Schubarth had a por-table set-up. He would go where the timber was,” confi rmed Jim Sawatzki, local fi lmmaker.

Sawatzki said a well-known saw mill in the area was owned by D.C. Oakes.

Oakes saw mill was northeast of Larkspur. He was one of the earliest saw mills,” Sawatzki said. “Wood from his mill built some of the early struc-tures in Denver. He was a very early pioneer, an in-

teresting fi gure.According to the Lark-

spur Historical Society Daniel Cheeseman Oakes set-up his saw mill in 1859 in Douglas County in an area called Riley’s Gulch. His saw mill also housed a post offi ce and was washed away in the fl ood of 1864.

In her book von Ahle-feldt lists a G.W. Higby mill and in “History Colo-rado, Volume Four” au-thored by Wilbur Fiske Stone he mentions a J.W. Higby who bought 1,640 acres near Monument and erected a number of saw mills. Wood from his saw mills provided 50,000 railroad ties for the Den-ver & Rio Grande Railroad Company. It is not known if the two were related or not.

The saw mill industry was just one of the many industries of the area that is no more.

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It has been said that nature -- with all its over-whelming power -- knows what we need and the doctors know nothing.

Almost from its very be-ginning, Palmer Lake, a town initially tied to the very idea of being a health destination, has tested that theory.

“Dr. W. Finley Thomp-son assumed such a prominent leadership role in Palmer Lake dur-ing the 1880s that every-one has regarded him as the founder of the town,” writes Daniel W. Edwards in his new book “Dr. Wil-liam Finley Thompson: Dental Surgeon and Founder of Palmer Lake”

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that was published in July. Thompson was the town’s fi rst mayor and built area landmark Estamere House (Estemere).

Dr. Thompson himself, in a promotional piece published in the summer of 1884, laid it out pretty clearly.

“The healthfulness for the locality of Palmer Lake is fully recognized by all, and the prominent mem-bers of the medical faculty have frequently urged the establishment of a sum-mer and health resort at this point...”

Thompson saw the area being developed in the same manner as Euro-pean sanitariums in the Alps created for ‘lung-ers,’ a term often used to

describe those suffering from tuberculosis and asthma.

“It is now conclusively proved that dry and rari-fi ed atmosphere is won-derfully curative, even in cases of tubercular dis-ease. Colorado is full of people who came here in actually dying condition, who now are enjoying even robust health. Asth-matics are especially ben-efi ted in this altitude, and sufferers from this most distressing of all maladies have received permanent relief by residence here … The climate of Palmer Lake (Divide) presents without question, ad-vantages of very superior character…” according to Thompson in the promo-

tional fl yer.Marion Savage Sabin,

in her1957 book, “Palmer Lake: A Historic Narra-tive,” makes a similar ob-servation about Thomp-son’s intentions.

“Here was the very place for a health resort and va-cation community of lux-urious type and not to be out-done by famous spas he had visited in Europe. Here in ideal combina-tion were scenic beauty, pure bracing mountain air and warm sunshine, icy springs rich in mineral content, healing pine for-ests, the seclusion – and at the same time accessibil-ity by rail – which should assure the success of such an undertaking.”

Daniel Edwards notes

that, “By May of 1888, he (Dr. Thompson) was ac-tively engaged in making this happen – building a 70-room hotel with at-tached sanitarium – his last vigorous attempt to develop Palmer Lake.”

Edwards writes that two prominent physicians, experts in the treatment of lung problems, played important roles in that development. Dr. Alfred Tucker-Wise, the medi-cal director for the Swiss Hotel Kursaal in Maloja, and Dr. Charles Denison, professor of diseases of the chest and of climatol-ogy at the University of Denver, consulted with Thompson regarding the construction and early operation of hotel.

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When the pumps, en-gines and mills come to life at the Western Muse-um of Mining & Industry, the sights and sounds of mining fi ll the air to the delight of the many chil-dren and adults who visit the museum every day.

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seum is 27 acres of indoor and outdoor displays that include a steam shovel, other steam- and pneu-matic-powered engines and pumps, a 5,000-book research library that is also available online, an old farmhouse, a theater, an authentic assayers’ of-fi ce, two burros and a gift shop that has recently be-come a source for pros-pecting and small-scale mining equipment.

The museum was founded in 1970 as the Museum of the West, us-ing as its nucleus mining artifacts donated by Fred-erick McMenemy and Katherine Thatcher Far-rar. In 1972, the museum was renamed to the West-ern Museum of Mining & Industry. Since then it has won many awards includ-ing the 2012 Best Cultural Attraction Bronze Award.

In 1978, the museum staff recreated a 19th cen-tury stamp mill using au-thentic building methods and materials. Much of the equipment inside the working stamp mill came from The Yellow Jacket Mine in Montezuma. Don’t know what a stamp mill does? Why not come out for a visit?

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Thompson also brought in his friend, Thomas Gaddes, a den-tist associated with Thompson from his time in London, to become the medical superintendent of the sanitarium at the Rocklands.

Interestingly enough, Gaddes became the fi rst elected Town Physician for Palmer Lake in March 1889, the same year he also obtained his M.D. from the Denver College of Medicine. Later in life, he also received patents for a number of inven-tions produced in Eng-land -- among them a wave mill which generat-ed electricity from ocean waves, an automatic egg boiler, a window sash fas-tener, and a strainer that worked with a tea or cof-fee pot.

The dentist/physician combination was fairly common at that time, and in fact, Dr. Thompson, M.D., received his license to practice medicine on April 1, 1890, from the Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners.

“Finley’s hopes for a sanitarium at Palmer Lake were dashed by sev-eral factors,” writes Dan-iel Edwards. “First, not enough money was raised to implement his plan for a main sanitarium build-ing with detached cottage and grounds. Then, Dr. Charles Denison appar-ently abandoned his sup-port for Finley’s project.”

Two new sanitariums in Colorado Springs (Bellev-ue and Albert Glockner) apparently didn’t help matters either.

By late summer of 1890, the fi nancial burden of the Rocklands and oth-er ventures compelled Thompson to leave town, basically skipping out owing a lot of people a lot of money. The hotel was never wildly successful and was eventually de-stroyed by fi re in 1920.

Thompson’s personal residence, Estamere, lives on of course, and is con-sidered the ‘crown jewel’ of Palmer Lake, as does the town plat recorded in November of 1883, by Dr. Thompson and Dr. Wil-liam A. Bell.

Bell was a Manitou Springs physician, direc-tor and fi nancial recruiter for Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and developer of Briarhurst Manor, his personal residence.

His Monument Farms organization began buy-ing property in the Palm-er Lake area as early as 1870 and had amassed nearly 3,000 acres by the time Thompson showed on the scene. Bell, and his organization, actually realized a healthy profi t from land sales in the area.

Just what the doctor or-dered. Perhaps there is a distinction between what various doctors know, and don’t know?

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United States Air Force Academy• Established April 1, 1954• First class sworn in at temporary location at

Lowry Air Force Base in 1955• Construction began at current location

north of Colorado Springs on July 11, 1955• Classes began at current location on Aug.

29, 1958 with a cadet wing of 1,145 • First graduating class of 207 cadets took

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Academy District 20• Founded in 1874• Number of schools – 33, four are in the Tri-

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Lewis-Palmer School District 38• The Lewis School District #5 was founded

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• Student population:• Lewis-Palmer High School – 963• Palmer Ridge High School – 1077• Lewis-Palmer Middle School – 828• Lewis-Palmer Elementary School – 428• Palmer Lake Elementary School – 340• Bear Creek Elementary School – 801• Prairie Winds Elementary School – 399• Ray Kilmer Elementary School – 404• Home School Academy – 51• 353 teachers• 2012/2013 General Fund Budget Revenues-

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Some folks blame the Russians for the end of the fur trade in the Tri-Lakes area.

“In 1946 the fox farms were a good thriving business,” wrote Lucille Lavelett. “The United States made a trade agree-ment with Russia; Russia traded their furs to the U.S. for a metal we had, to be used to harden steel. The fur market soon be-came fl ooded with Rus-sian furs. There was no sale for U.S. furs, and all the fur farmers had to get out of the business.”

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Baptist Road was once one of the largest and best fox farms in the west. The farm, established by a man by the name of Shel-by in the 1930s, was fi rst managed by Dave Gibbs. Gibbs later owned his own fox operation east of Monument on Highway 105.

Famous fur farmers fl ourished all over the Tri-Lakes area in the middle part of the last century. Jack Duckels, Colorado’s largest mink rancher dur-ing the height of the state’s fur industry in the 1960s, got his start in the Palmer Lake area.

“Duckels fi rst raised turkeys and foxes near Palmer Lake in the 1920s. In 1932, he brought three pairs of foxes to today’s First Avenue and Ha-vana Street – far enough away from Denver, he supposed, not to bother anyone with the smell,” according William J. Con-very in a recent edition of Colorado Heritage, the state historical society’s magazine.

“To supplement his thriving fox business, Duckels added mink in 1933. The small sideline eventually eclipsed all other operations on his ranch. By 1961, the Au-rora rancher employed twenty full-time hands to help feed the daily ration of some 15,000 pounds of meat byproducts, fi sh, cereal and fresh horse-meat to his 20,000 hungry charges,” Convery said.

According to Lavelett, the Baptist Road fox farm had eight units of fenced pens that accommodated 3,500 breeding foxes. “In 1937, the farm shipped 200,000 furs to eastern markets.”

Other factors might share some of the blame for the collapse of the fur industry here. Rising social criticism (Doris Day, the star of “A Touch of Mink”, turned animal rights activist led the Hol-lywood charge), the slug-gish economy, and the advent of synthetic fur all were factors. But many blame the Russians.

“The rise of foreign competition ironically demonstrated how do-mestic fur producers had sown the seeds of their own demise. In the heady days of the 1950s and early 1960s, American fur farm-ers had gladly supplied foreign breeders, trained those breeders’ interns, and sold them breeding stock. Jack Duckels, for one, made extensive busi-ness contacts in Japan, Norway, and the Soviet Union. In the 1960s he traveled to Soviet trade shows and invited Rus-sian merchandisers back to the United States to tour his own farm. Shad-owed by FBI agents, the Soviets learned the ins and outs of mink ranch-ing and signed lucrative contracts to buy Duckel’s brood minks,” wrote Con-very.

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Above: Fox pelts stacked for market, circa 1920. Photos courtesy History/Genealogy Dept. Denver Public Library.

Below: Men work fox pelts in a workshop in Denver, circa 1920.

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The Tri-Lakes area is served by four fi re departments: Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, Westcott Fire Protection District, Black Forest Fire and Rescue Fire Protection District and Palmer Lake Volunteer Fire Department. These four departments, along with the Larkspur Fire Protection District in Douglas County, make up the North Group. Because of mutual-aid agreements, the departments roll on each other’s calls.

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fi reWestcottFire Protection District • The Westcott Fire Protection

District was named after Donald Westcott, a fi refi ghter who died in the line of duty while fi ghting structure fi re in 1976.

• Established: 1981• Fire Chief: Vinny Burns• Main phone number: 719-

488-8680• Area covered: The district

boundaries are Interquest Parkway north to Baptist Road, East of I-25 to east of Colo/ 83 and along Highway 83 to Hodgen Road. 11,611 acres or 18 square miles.

• ISO rating: 5• Personnel: Fire chief and

assistant chief, one station captain, two duty shift offi cers, Nine fi refi ghters/emergency medical technicians, 30 volunteers, one administrative assistant.

• Stations: Station #1: 15415 Gleneagle Drive, district headquarters.

• Station #2: 15505 Colo. 83, opened in March 2012.

• Station #3: 15000 Sun Hills Drive, training station and fi re marshal’s offi ce.

• Equipment: one ladder truck, three engines, one tender, two brush trucks, two chief vehicles, a Hummer, an ATV and an air trailer.

• Annual tax revenue for 2012: $1,678,074.

Tri-Lakes MonumentFire Protection District • The Tri-Lakes Monument

Fire Protection District was formed in 2008 with a merger of the Woodmoor-Monument Fire Protection District and the Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District (formerly the Monument Volunteer Fire Department). It has a paid staff offering both medical and fi re services.

• Established: 2008• Fire Chief: Pending• Main phone number: (719)

484-0911• Area covered: 68 square

miles• ISO rating: ISO rating 3

within the Town limits of Monument. ISO rating 4 within one-thousand feet of a fi re hydrant located outside of the town limits of Monument. ISO rating 9 in areas more than one thousand feet from a hydrant or that don’t have hydrants.

• Personnel: Approximately 50 fi refi ghters/emergency medical technicians/paramedics

• Stations: Administration Complex: 166 Second St., Monument, CO 80132

• Station #1: 18650 Colo. 105, Monument, CO 80132

• Station #2: 18460 Roller Coaster Road, Monument, CO 80132

• Station #3: 1855 Woodmoor Drive, Monument, CO 80132

• Equipment: A variety of engines for wildland and structure fi refi ghting and ambulances.

• Annual budget for 2013: $5,520,580.

Palmer Lake Volunteer Fire Department• The Palmer Lake Volunteer

Fire Department is a local volunteer fi re department with no paid staff. The department provides both fi re and emergency medical services.

• Established: 1937 • Fire Chief: Pending.• Main phone number: 719-

499-1066• Area covered: 5 square miles• Personnel: 27 volunteers, a

combination of emergency medical responders, fi refi ghters and support staff.

• Stations: The department has a single, three-bay station at 12 Valley Crescent in Palmer Lake near the town hall and the Lucretia Vaile Public Library.

• Annual budget for 2013: $121,850.

Black Forest Fire and Rescue Fire Protection District• Black Forest Fire and Rescue

has been protecting the Black Forest area since 1945. The department provides both fi re and emergency medical services.

• Established: 1945 • Fire Chief: Bob Harvey• Main phone number: 719-

495-2300• Area covered: 48 square

miles• ISO rating: 5/10. Homes

within 5 miles of a station are rated 5, outside of 5 miles the ISO rating is 10. As of 2009 when station #2 opened, most of the coverage area is within 5 miles of a station.

• Personnel: Total 54, eight paid fi refi ghters including two senior offi cers and 46 volunteers. All personnel must qualify for at least one medical and one fi re position.

• Stations: Station #1, Headquarters, 11445 Teachout Road (corner of Teachout and Burgess roads), built 2002-03. The station houses administrative offi ces, meeting and classroom space, sleeping and living quarters for 10, maintenance and parking bays for equipment and supply storage.

• Station #2, 16465 Ridge Run Road, houses one ambulance, one structure fi re engine, one wildland fi re engine, and one water tender. The station has sleeping and living space for four.

• Equipment: Three ambulances, two engines, one wildland fi re engine (brush truck), four tenders (water haulers).

• Annual budget as of 2012: $1,420,425

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MonumentPolice Department

• Originated in 1974• 1 chief• 1 lieutenant• 2 sergeants• 1 corporal• 7 patrol offi cers• 1 community resource offi cer• 1 detective• 1 reserve offi cer• 1 support services manager• 2 records technicians• Cover approximately fi ve square miles• 2013 Expenditure Budget- $1,446,940• Police department is located at 645

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offi cers• 1 lieutenant• Covers 3.1 square miles• 2013 budget- $275,506• Police department is located at next to

town hall at 42 Valley Crescent• Main number- 719-481-2934

El Paso CountySheriff’s Offi ce

• Originated in 1861• El Paso County is made up of 2,158

square miles with 1,900 square miles of unincorporated area

• Sheriff’s offi ce covers a population of 168,000

• Currently 121 patrol offi cers, approximately 10 deputies patrol 8 districts per shift

• Budget for 2012-• $7,853,068 allocated for patrol division• $14,415,419 allocated for detentions-

operations• $13,460,816 allocated for detentions-

fl oor security• $2,453,598 for investigations• $406,911 for emergency services• $3,363,832- administration• $5,437,349- operations• With the public safety tax that voters

approved in November of 2012 the sheriff’s offi ce will soon hire 131 new positions and 22 unfunded positions that were cut in 2009

• One to two deputies patrol the Tri-Lakes area but with the new hires it will increase to two to four deputies

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“We draw talent in from Colorado Springs, Cas-tle Rock and Woodland Park,” Dr. Michael Mad-dox, executive director for TLCA, said.

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in 1998 by a group of art-ists who wanted to band together to open up an art center for the Tri-Lakes area. When Maddox be-came a member of the board of directors he told them that those outside of Palmer Lake looked at the TLCA as merely a small town arts and crafts center. He had previously worked with other art centers around the re-gion including the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs.

Maddox was eventually named executive director and said he’d accept the position “only if we can re-brand. We need to cre-ate a broader appeal.”

And so they did and since then they have had well known musicians such as: We Five, Dotsero, Wendy Woo, Willy Porter, Thin Air Jazz, Positively Pikes Peak paying a trib-ute to Bob Dylan and the John Adams Band paying tribute to John Denver. Actor Ronny Cox, also a singer and songwriter, has given a concert at the TLCA. Other performanc-

es have included: “Sense and Sensibility” present-ed by Tin Roof Produc-tions, WYNOT Radio The-atre Show, Wisdom Within These Walls, improv group Stick Horses in Pants and

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The TLCA still has plen-ty of art exhibits through-out the year. There’s been the Refl ections of Modern Art Exhibit, Glass Magic

and a Resident Artists Ex-hibition and the outside north wall will soon have a giant mural painted by world renowned artist Mi-chael Noel Wallace.

“We have our annual Vi-

sions of Light Show and our Lewis-Palmer School District 38 art show to in-spire up and coming art-ists,” Maddox said. “We want to do all we can to inspire young kids.”

The TLCA is making his-tory by bringing these top notch performers and art-ists to the town nestled up against the mountains and in a building that has quite a bit of history it-self. In 1898 the building was the Thomas A. Hanks Livery Stable and Trans-fer Service, the fi rst livery stable in Palmer Lake. In 1957 it was owned by Charles Orr who used it for an Angora wool pro-cessing plant. The Denver Rio Grande Railroad used to repair cars at the south end of the building and in 1969 Fred Walker pur-chased part of the build-ing. Walker loved to pur-chase and restore Kaiser and Frazer cars and up until recently the build-ing bore the Kaiser/Frazer sign.

The TLCA has a mission to nurture emerging art-ists, demonstrate cultural creativity and promote fi ne arts and humanities to the Tri-Lakes region and outside the area. The center is located at 304 Colo. 105.

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