What we know
George W. Redman, county school superintendent in 1862 and Spring Valley's first postmaster (1865); his place 'was known as the Redman Rancho'. The office later moved to Gile's ranch in the NE1/4 of the same section.
Where it was
Center of the SW1/4 of Sec. 27, T10S R66W: George W. Redman's patent of Aug. 5, 1869 (Spring Valley School landmark nomination, Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 132); 'Redman's claim in SW 1/4 of sec 27' in the 1866 survey notes (Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 5). Good to about a quarter mile.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
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.