Images of America: Communities of the Palmer Divide
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The Palmer Divide, Colorado
Native American tribes once traversed the east-west anomaly of the Rocky Mountains known as the Palmer Divide as a passage between the high ranges and the Great Plains. Lying between Denver and Colorado Springs, the offshoot range divides the great Platte and Arkansas River systems. Settlers homesteaded, farmed and ranched the area. Railroad constrctions in the 1870s led to towns supporting commerece and tourism, particularly in the western section of the Palmer Divide, in what eventually beame known as the Tri-Lakes Area. The area drew tourists who enjoyed hiking, wildflowers, and the outdoors, and facilitated such local industries as ice harvesting, lumber milling, ranching, and potato farming. A vast area north of Colorado Springs, the Palmer Divide retains a picturesque rural nature and cohesive smalll-town feeling--creating such social events as the Rocky Mountain Chautauqua and the Yule Log Festival, as well as the enduring Palmer Lake Star on Sundance Mountain.
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Copyright 2011 by Palmer Lake Historical Society
Published by Arcadia Publishing
Paperback, 127 pages
Dimension: 6.5" x 9"
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