# Cherry / Williamsville

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cherry-williamsville/
- Also known as: Cherry Valley
- Kind: Towns and settlements
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.21, -104.719 (from a cited description (about half a mile))
- Post office: Cherry, 1900–1920

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

David Rice Williams's homestead and cheese factory on West Cherry Creek (from 1873 per the binders; 'Williamsville' in the newspapers from 1895). Cherry PO opened spring 1900, 'locally known as Williamsville'; closed 1920.

## Where it was

Approximate (about half a mile): 'The Pratt schoolhouse, a mile south of Williamsville' (1899); the Cherry School lot at the NE corner of Sec. 12, T10S R66W (deeds); the post office on the later Anderson ranch, 10425 S. Hwy 83, placed by interpolating addresses along Hwy 83; Place Names of Colorado's Sec. 6, T10S R65W is half a mile east.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Pratt farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-farm/): 0.5 mi west
- [Pratt / Cherry School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pratt-cherry-school/): 0.7 mi south
- [Rock Ridge-Case cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-case-cemetery/): 3.3 mi north
- [Rock Ridge](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge/): 3.6 mi north
- [Bucks Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bucks-place/): 3.9 mi southwest
- [Jotham Lincoln killed (Sept. 4, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jotham-lincoln-killed-sept-4-1868/): 3.9 mi southwest

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