Meet at the LHS Information Cabin, just south of Town Hall, for a walk along Larkspur’s past. Join us for a moderate walk and refreshments.
It was an overcast, snowy Saturday in the Palmer Divide area on February 26, 1944, when Flight AF3155 went down in a rugged area of the Pike National Forest. Upon […]
Meet at the LHS Information Cabin, just south of Town Hall, for a walk into the history of Spruce Mountain Road. Join us for a moderate walk and refreshments.
No History Lesson
On June 16, 1965, it started raining late in the morning, and 14 inches of rain fell in five hours. The storm started in Palmer Lake, where a tornado was […]
Douglas County Roots
Divide Country refers to a region along the Colorado Front Range that separates the drainage basins of the Arkansas River to the south and the South Platte River to the […]
Juan Rivera’s Colorado, 1765. Juan Antonio María de Rivera (1738–?) was a Spaniard and the first Euro-American to intensively explore the territory that eventually became the state of Colorado. In 1765, he […]