A Brief Introduction to the Blog

Greetings to our many blog followers!  Be sure to check the research pages at right for other new articles.

Fountain is a small town about 10 miles south of Colorado Springs that was founded in 1859.  Formerly, it was a railroad shipping center for local ranches and farms. Now, a lot of residents work on Fort Carson or other nearby bases, but the town still maintains it own identity.  

The blog is an online repository of photographs, stories, land records and biographies of the settlers of Fountain, Colorado.  Many of these sources were given to me to add by the Fountain Museum and Historical Society.  My goal was to make this information freely available to researchers.  Use of this data for personal research is encouraged.  Reproduction of any or all of the content for commercial purposes is prohibited, or we'll track you down and bury you in an ant hill! Just kidding.  Contact the Museum to request photo rights. The image above shows a foot race down Main Street in the early 1920s.

The search feature only looks in the main column at left.  Those articles added to the subsets at right (people, gossip, railroads, etc) are not indexed, but I've tried to add a note to the index at the top of each column. 

 

Lastly, as is true of all history, we all have our own recollection or opinion of what happened. I've had people tell me that an article was wrong! The guy didn't know what he was talking about!  I have tried to include my source for each story or article. 

The new entries on Fairview Cemetery are a work-in-progress.