# Forest View School site

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/forest-view-school-site/
- Also known as: the Bleeker (Blecker) School, moved
- Kind: Schools
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 38.9502, -104.6996 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

One-room school first built on the Angling (now Vollmer) Road, 'just north of the intersection with Black Forest Road' (von Ahlefeldt) or 'about a half a mile from Black Forest Road' (Ellett), and named for its first teacher. It was moved to Black Forest Road (then Table Rock Road) about World War I (von Ahlefeldt) or in 1921-22 (Ellett) and renamed Forest View. Pupils went to Falcon from 1945, and the building was moved to Colorado Springs as a house. Six trees, the foundation and an ash pit marked the site (Ellett pp. 27-28, 42; von Ahlefeldt pp. 100-101).

## Where it was

On Black Forest Road 'right across from the Kit Carson Riding Club arena' (Ellett p. 28), the arena in OpenStreetMap; von Ahlefeldt (p. 101) has the Bleeker School moved 'a few hundred yards west' from the Angling (Vollmer) Road to Black Forest Road. Good to a few hundred feet.

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

## Nearby

- [Lindamood Homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lindamood-homestead/): 0.9 mi southwest
- [Indian Doctor's Place](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/indian-doctors-place/): 2.4 mi north
- [Howey's store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/howeys-store/): 3.3 mi north
- [Burrows Cabin](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/burrows-cabin/): 3.7 mi north
- [Collins and Morrell fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/collins-and-morrell-fox-farm/): 4.0 mi north
- [La Foret](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/la-foret/): 4.2 mi north

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