Palmer Divide Research

Crull-Hammond cabin

Also: Huntsville historical site

Historic homes and cabinsHistoric or vanishedDouglas County

What we know

Log cabin whose logs were felled between August 1873 and June 1874 (University of Arizona tree-ring report, 2000, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 pp. 121-126), on land Christopher Crull entered in 1869; who built it is unsettled. Crull reopened the Huntsville post office on April 8, 1869.

Where it was

The county's 0.73-acre 'Historical Site' in the NW1/4 of Sec. 16, T9S R67W, just west of Bear Dance Drive, computed from the 2005 survey description (David E. Archer & Associates, Larkspur Historical Society binder 4 p. 144); good to about 100 feet.

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

See it on the map

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.

Know more about Crull-Hammond cabin?

Corrections, family stories, photographs, deeds, letters and maps are all welcome. Messages and files come to Michael Christensen privately; nothing appears on the site until it has been checked, and you'll be credited the way you ask.