On a recent visit to Fairview Cemetery we tried to decipher the epitaph on the headstone of Anna Pettengill, her son James, and his wife Ger...

This story is based on census data, newspaper articles from the Colorado Springs Gazette , and land records. Amos Terrell was issued a...

This article identifies some of the earliest burials at Fairview Cemetery, but it also shows how the census and other records can help y...

  The Sears House: 11190 Old Pueblo Road As you drive south on Old Pueblo Road, the newish Ventana subdivision is on the east side of the ...

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...