St. Philip-in-the-Field

Also: Bear Cañon church · Bear Canyon Church

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What we know

Episcopal church off Perry Park Road (Highway 105), surrounded by the Bear Canyon (Bear Cañon) Cemetery; George Nickson helped establish the church and cemetery in the 1870s (Perry Park binder LHS_9, Nickson history). Built by Newton Grout in 1872 and consecrated as St. Philip in the Field in 1889, per a parish history in the same binder (helper's digest, pp. 349-352; not yet).

Where it was

USGS GNIS Church 185124

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

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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.

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