The El Paso County Poor Farm was built in 1900.  It was located where Bear Creek Park is today, north of the community garden.  I found addi...

The 1871 plat of the town of Fountain shows two churches, or at least the lots reserved for them.  One may have been a Societ...

Coal powered steam engines were phased out in the early 1960s.  This photo was taken in Fountain in December, 1962 and shows the last run of...

The blogger service allows me to see what you are searching for when you query google or another site for information, and are directed to t...

"Back in the old days"... when a couple was married, their friends would host activities to celebrate the wedding.  True, these ev...

Anna K. Pettingill is buried in Fountain’s Fairview Cemetery.   A tall monument marks the family plot and bears the names of Anna, James Art...

 Rocky Mountain News Dec 10, 1897  Weekly Rocky Mountain News Sept 15, 1898

 Rocky Mountain News 6-7-1888  Soon after the great explosion of 1888 and the destruction of the AT&SF depot, the D&RG was pet...

Did you know that the Pikes Peak Library has indexes of local newspapers, dating back to 1872, online?  The Security Advertiser and Fountain...

Marquerite's papers, which contain stories about Fountain and sketch maps of early residences, are housed in the Carnegie Library/ Speci...

 1881 Denver newspaper article  Since the 1970s, local newspaper articles have mentioned that Fountain was at one time in the ru...

In the April 6, 1872 issue of Out West, appeared this article, meant to entice easterners to migrate to the Territory.   “Colorado: Pure air...

In the 1860s, there was a general store known as the Lincoln Trading Post on the stage coach road south of Fountain.  This stood near Little...

Marguerite Bulkley's files contain maps of Fountain, as she remembered it and had heard about it from her family. These can be found o...

The following are notes from the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Springs Gazette on the 1888 explosion. The morning edition of the Puebl...