Palmer Divide Research

Monument Nursery

Also: Mt. Herman Planting Station

Cheese factories, creameries and other worksHistoric or vanishedEl Paso County

What we know

Founded 1907 as the Mt. Herman Planting Station (per a CRN post).

Where it was

USGS GNIS Locale 193247

The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.

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 Monument Nursery?

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.