# Gwillimville church site (1893)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville-church-site-1893/

- Kind: Churches
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1008, -104.7717 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

The Welsh community's church, dedicated in 1893 by Chancellor Buchtel of Denver University and Elder Rader of Pueblo; services had been held in the schoolhouse until then. It stood on land given by J. J. Pettigrew. In 1979 only 'the crumbling stone foundation of the church' was 'barely visible in the grass' (von Ahlefeldt pp. 42-45). Whether anything survives today is not known.

## Where it was

'Built on the northwest corner of (Highway) 105 and Highway 83' (Lucille Lavelett, letter of March 15, 1985, quoted by Rob Carrigan, 2015 and 2020); PLHS also puts it 'at Highways 105 and 83'. Placed just inside that corner of the junction in OpenStreetMap; the corner itself rests on Lavelett alone. 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

- [Pat Murphy homestead](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pat-murphy-homestead/): 0.1 mi east
- [Gwillimville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/gwillimville/): 0.1 mi southwest
- [Pettigrew Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pettigrew-ranch/): 1.0 mi south
- [Steppler potato cellar](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/steppler-potato-cellar/): 2.3 mi southeast
- [William Brown fox farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/william-brown-fox-farm/): 2.8 mi southwest
- [Pine Grove](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-grove/): 2.8 mi northeast

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