Own Your Own Piece of History! in Colorado Springs, Colorado For Sale

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Address: xxxx S. Russellville Road Type: Lots and Land Style: Single Story Suite: No Living Area: Year Built: 0
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Own your own piece of history! We have 9.79 acres of pristine land located at xxxx S. Russellville Road! With multiple building sites, this parcel offers serene views, meadows for your horses, natural year-round stream, mature trees, wildlife, easy access and well. This rare parcel of land comes complete with its own piece of history.
Russellville Ranch, a 33-acre private ranch just southeast of Franktown, is the earliest settlement in Douglas County. It has several ties to Confederate history as well as “Pike’s Peak or Bust” gold rush tales. From the first gold discovery, the first sawmill, the first cabin and the first Settlers Town before Denver!
After the War Russellville became a lumber supplier with as many as 6 mills operating in the xxxx’s. It’s location within the Black Forest provided plenty of Ponderosa Pine lumber for the booming Colorado economy. The town eventually faded into history and became part of a private ranch. In xxxx Douglas County designated the ranch a historic landmark.
Franktown takes its name from James Frank Gardner, a would-be gold miner who built a squatter's cabin four miles north of here in xxxx. A popular rest stop on the busy Jimmy Camp Trail (which followed Cherry Creek into Denver), "Frank's Town" was designated the seat of Douglas County in xxxx; the settlement moved to its current location two years later. Though railroads made the trail obsolete after xxxx, and the county offices moved to Castle Rock in xxxx, Franktown remained a ranching and farming hub, held together by its church, school, grange, and handful of businesses. It never incorporated, and during the twentieth century no more than a hundred people called it home, but that's how the locals liked it. Even as suburban sprawl surrounded it in the xxxxs, Franktown resisted efforts to develop, maintaining a distinctly rural identity.
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