PPLD's Special Collections has a few old Fountain phone books available on microfilm.  Here are the results for 1907, 1917 and 1937.  ...

Interviews with Mr Quick and Mr Williams, early Fountain settlers, were conducted by the historian from the Pioneer Museum in 1942.   Throu...

Ranch Life and Other Sketches by Michael Hendrick Fitch   1914 A. Jacobs owned a well equipped line of stages which ran from Denver to ...

That and other assorted newspaper clippings gleaned from the Colorado Springs papers: Colorado Springs Gazette November 10, 1878 Baled H...

I have been using Real Estate Transactions published in the old Gazette newspapers to try and identify who owned the Ark and nearby land in ...

Other information and photographs of local men and women who served in the Armed Services are welcome.  This page is arranged chronologica...

In a dramatic story retold by Elsie Keeton, and later published in Larson's History of the Fountain Valley, and in a bicentennial newspa...

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...