Ranches – Larkspur Historical Society

Ranches of Southern Douglas County and the Divide Country

This ranch list will give you some insight into where the early ranches (primarily before 1970) were and what became of them. The story of the Douglas County Pioneers continues through these ranches. The Douglas County Ranching Family Tree has a span of over 150 years and shows an ever changing county. When the ranch’s name changed, sometimes, so did the acreage. Future additions to this list will show an overlapping of ownership and an ever changing map.

This is the life that many dreamed of cutting out of the frontier for themselves. The life that these pioneers made for themselves did not only include cattle and horses, as you will read. Photos and maps are also

shown to help round out the story. A piece of poetry about these old timers from 1922 gives more insight into how meaningful these people were to each others lives and can be read here.

The information that you will find is not all inclusive, if you have additions, corrections or questions, please write to the e-mail address provided on this web site. Click on the ranch names to read the biographies. The links will be going live over time, please check back often for additions to our list.

Grazing Cattle on Pike National Forest

Abbe Ranch, James = Perry Park

Albin Ranch, George E. = Glen Grove . a.k.a.; Kinner Ranch, John; Joseph Kerr Ranch. (see Kinner Ranch.)

Alderman Ranch, Newton a.k.a.; Silver State Farm, Cherry Creek Ranch= Spring Valley E. Cherry Creek.

Allis Ranch, Charles = Greenland

Babcock Ranch, Jerome C. = Greenland. a.k.a.; Simeon Green Ranch; HX Ranch or Noble, Munson & Black Cattle Company; Mr. Church. (See Green Ranch.)

Banner Ranch = Glen Grove (see James P Mcinroy Ranch)

Bay state Ranch = Greenland a.k.a.: J. C. Babcock ranch (see Babcock Ranch and Simeon Green Ranch)

Beggs. C. W. = Glen Grove (see Cantril and Henry Vogt )

Bell Mountaian Ranch

Ben Lomond Ranch = Greenland. a.k.a.; Bennet, Oakes & Daniels Ranch, Joseph F. Bennet Family, Harold Higginson Family.

Bennet, Hiram P. = Greenland. (See Ben Lomond Ranch.)

Berger = Larkspur (see w. J. Thompson ranch)

Best Ranch = Spring Valley

Binford Ranch = Tomah Story Pending

Blake, Ephraim = Larkspur

Brand Ranch, Charlie = Greenland a.k.a. Red Polled Breeding Farm, Ross Ranch (See Cold Springs Ranch.)

Brennan Ranch, Peter = Larkspur /Perry Park aka: Ford Place, Wallace Turner ranch.

Bromwell, William = Glen Grove (See Cold Spring Ranch)

Brown Ranch, Samuel = Spring Valley Melvin Brown, Jr., includes William Ross & Alfred Guthrie homesteads

Bucks Ranch = Spring Valley

Burke Ranch = Glen Grove (see Haystack/Sandstone Ranch)

Butler Ranch = Greenland. (See Hudson & Butler Ranch.)

Calhoun, John = Spring Valley

Cantril = Glen Grove

Chamberlain Ranch = Larkspur. William and Ellis Chamberlain

Cherry Creek Ranch = Spring Valley. a.k.a.; Silver State Farm, Newton Alderman Ranch. (See Alderman Ranch.)

Church Ranch = Greenland. (See Sim Green Ranch)

Cold Springs Ranch = Greenland. a.k.a.; Charlie Brand Ranch, Angus McBane/McIntosh Ranch, Tom Oxley, E. E. Myers Ranch, Tom Oxley Family, Wilbur Dowdy, Judge Leon M. King, Colonel Danks, Ted J. Weber, William Bromwell, Edward Serrell Family, Jerry R. Noe

Cousins, Boyd E. = Glen Grove (see Perry Park Ranch)

Crosswhite, Charles Edgar = Cherry/Spring Valley/Williamsville

Crull Ranch, William = Huntsville. a.k.a.; Hammond Ranch, Crull Cabin ( also spelled Kruel and Krull)

Crull Cabin Poem= by Larry Schlupp LHS

Crystal Springs Ranch = Greenland

Dahlberg, Russell = Spring or Cherry Valley. (See Andy Seaburg Ranch, Feather Ridge Farm)

Dakan Ranch, Allan & George = Glen Grove

Daniels Ranch = Greenland (See Ben Lomond Ranch.)

Danks, Colonel = Greenland (See Cold Springs Ranch and Paul Brown Ranch)

Dawson, Thomas = Tomah

Diamond G Ranch = Larkspur a.k.a. MacHurst ranch, James P. McInroy

Dillon, William = TBD

Divide Ranch = Divide/Larkspur TBD

Donley Ranch = Larkspur (See Paul Brown Ranch)

Dowdy, Wilbur = Greenland. (See Cold Springs Ranch)

Eagle Mountain Ranch = Greenland. a.k.a.; The Noe Family, I.J. Noe.

Eagle Mountain Ranch Story = Greenland. a 1902 Story visit to the , I.J. Noe ranch.

Echo Ranch = Greenland a.k.a. Jacob D. Tourtillott ranch

Elk Creek Ranch = Loney Ranch

Evergreen Ranch=Ditmar Ranch

Feather Ridge Farm = Spring or Cherry Valley. a.k.a.; Andy Seaburg Ranch, Russell Dahlberg Ranch.

Fritz Ranch = Greenland.

Gandy, Henry Harper = Spring Valley

Gard, John = Greenland. a.k.a.; Melvin Olson Ranch

Geiger Ranch = Spring Valley

Gile, Joseph Franklin = Divide, Spring Valley

Gove Ranch, Asa = Glen Grove a.k.a.; Gilbert & Harland Palm Ranch. Gove Canon and Gove Creek

Grant Ranch = Glen Grove. a.k.a.: Haystack Ranch

Green Ranch, Simeon = Greenland . a.k.a.; HX Ranch or Noble, Munson & Black Cattle Company; Mr. Church; Jerome C. Babcock Ranch.

Greenland Ranch = Greenland. a.k.a.; Greenland Breeding Farm.

Green Valley Ranch = Butler Canyon on Cook Creek. a.k.a.; Ross Johnson Ranch, Raymond Maulsby Ranch, James Thomas Ranch

Grout Ranch, Newton = Glen Grove. (see Jackson Creek Ranch.)

Guthrie, Alfred M. = Spring Valley (see Samuel Brown)

Hammond Ranch, John = Huntsville. (see Crull Ranch)

Haystack Ranch = Glen Grove. a.k.a.. = Sandstone Ranch. AR Sandstone LLC, John Burke, Burkhardt, May Byran, Eugene Campagnola, R. Edson, Kathleen Chambers, Thomas Cornish, Boyd Cousins, Nathan Dozois, Ruth Duryea, Mandi England, Frank Fazio,Carl Gross, John Koontz, ,Gerald Leiser, Memmex, Anna Palm, Gilbert Palm, Harlan Palm, Charles Perry, Betty Prince, Dan Reid, Charles Richardson, George Robinson,Harry Starr, Tom Starr, Seth Thompson, Earl and Elsie Tucker, Floyd – Wilma Turner, Wallace Turner, Sherrod Vincent, Benjamin Webb

Higby = Greenland, Greenland Breeding Farm or Greenland Ranch

Hidden Valley Ranch = Greenland, Lockhart, RC Noe

Higginson, Harold = Greenland. (See Ben Lomond Ranch also). Amy (Amelia Pearl Stewart) Higginson

Hopkins Ranch, Isaac = Greenland. (See Hudson & Butler)

Hudson & Butler Ranch, Algernon Hudson & Henry R. Butler Greenland. a.k.a.; Isaac Hopkins Ranch.

Hughes, Bela M. = Glen Grove (see Perry Park Ranch)

Hughes, William E. = Glen Grove (see Perry Park Ranch)

Hunt Ranch = Huntsville. a.k.a.; Norm Smith Ranch, J.A. Cattle Co

HX Ranch = Greenland. a.k.a.; Noble, Munson & Black Cattle company; Mr. Church, Jerome C. Babcock Ranch. (See Green Ranch.)

Jackson Creek Ranch = Glen Grove. Newton Grout Family.

James, Marcus Linzy= Glen Grove

Johnston, Samuel L. = Greenland

Jordan Brothers = Tomah, Adam Smith

Keene Ranch = Larkspur (Tomah) TBD

Kerr Ranch, Joseph = Larkspur. a.k.a.; Kinner Ranch, George E. Albin Ranch. (See Kinner Ranch)

Killin = Spring Valley (see Lincoln Ranch)

King, Judge Leon M. = Larkspur (see Cold Spring Ranch)

Kinner Ranch, John = Glen Grove . a.k.a.; Joseph Kerr Ranch, George E. Albin Ranch.

Koontz, John A. = Glen Grove (see Haystack Ranch & Carr Lamb Ranch)

Lamb Ranch, Carr = Larkspur

Lambert = Spring Valley

Lamont, Robert P. Jr. = Glen Grove (see Perry Park Ranch)

Lavelett Ranch = Spring Valley

Leyner, J. George =Glen Grove (see Perry Park Ranch)

Likes, Fred = Perry Park (see Carr Lamb Ranch)

Lincoln Fur Farm = Larkspur.

Lincoln Ranch = Spring Valley aka; Killin Ranch

Lombard = Greenland, Butler Canyon

Loney Ranch aka Elk Creek Ranch= Spring Valley

Lorraine Ranch, Joseph = Spring Valley

Lowell Ranch = Greenland

Machurst Ranch, James P. McInroy = Larkspur. McInroy family

McDowell Ranch = Spring Valley (see Best Ranch)

McClure Ranch =

McInroy, James P. = Larkspur (See MacHurst Ranch, Diamond G Ranch)

McIntosh Ranch = Greenland (See Cold Springs Ranch)

Metz Ranch = Metz canyon

Ministar/Mintspar Ranch =

Moorhead Ranch = Greenland. (see Eagle Mountain Ranch, IJ Noe)

Myers Ranch, E.E. = Greenland. (See Cold Springs Ranch)

Murphy, Patrick = Spring valley

Nickson Ranch, George =Glen Grove. a.k.a.; Park Valley Ranch, Nickson Brothers Ranch.

Nimerick Ranch, James M. = Greenland.

Noble, Munson & Black Cattle Company = Greenland. (see Sim Green Ranch)

Noe Ranch, Isaac Jegirtha = Greenland. (See Eagle Mountain Ranch and Greenland Ranch, Noe Ranch Visit)

Noe, Jerry R = Larkspur (see William Jackman Thompson Ranch)

Norris Ranch, George Whitefield = Greenland (Also spelled Nores)

Oakes, Daniel C. = Greenland. (See Ben Lomond Ranch.)

Olson Ranch, Melvin = Greenland. (See Gard Ranch)

Oxley Family = Greenland. (See Cold Springs Ranch)

Paepcke, Walter = Glen Grove (see Perry Park Ranch)

Palm Ranch, Gilbert & Harland = Glen Grove. a.k.a.; Gove Ranch (See Gove Ranch)

Palm/Simey & Potts = Glen Grove. Charles J. Palm (See Tucker Ranch also)

Park Valley Ranch = Glen Grove (see Nickson Ranch)

Paul Brown Ranch = Larkspur (AKA Donelly and Danks)

Perry, John Dietz = Glen Grove (see Perry Park Ranch)

Perry Park Ranch = Glen Grove. a.k.a.; John Dietz Perry, Bela M. Hughes, William E. Hughes, J. George Leyner, Robert P. Lamont, Jr., Walter Paepcke, Boyd E. Cousins, Lee Stubblefield.

Peterson Ranch = Lake Gulch

Petrie Ranch = Greenland

Pleasant Park = Glen Grove (see Perry Park Ranch)

Plum Creek Ranch = Glen Grove

Pollock Ranch = Greenland

Quick Ranch, Benjamin = Glen Grove

Ratcliff, George = Glen Grove

Red Polled Breeding Farm = Larkspur a.k.a. Cold Springs Ranch, Ross Ranch, Charlie Brand Ranch

Richardson, Charles = Glen Grove (see the Haystack Ranch)

Remington = Greenland

Robinson Ranch = Glen Grove (Earl Tucker )

Rock Ridge Ranch = Cherry Valley