The Railroad Red Book (Denver), December 1916 Monument a Thriving Farm and Dairy Community Monument is the shipping point for a large farming country known as the Divide section or [...]

Weekly Register Call (Central City), December 20, 1878 A Champion Walker According to the Monument Mentor, the Divide boasts a champion walkist [sic] in the person of Pat Murphy, who [...]

Colorado Sun (Denver), April 20, 1893 The Monument Reservoir State Engineer Cramer, after a thorough examination of the Monument reservoir, concludes that the appropriation of $4,000 made by the late [...]

Denver Republican, December 5, 1909 Work on Ice Houses Stopped Monument, Colo., Dec. 4. This has been the coldest day of the season. The thermometer has hovered close to zero [...]

Denver Republican, December 24, 1902 Monument Store Robbed—Barber under Suspicion The store of W.B. Walker was robbed again last night. George Shafter, who was running a barber shop between the [...]

Denver Republican, July 5, 1901 Colorado Shows Its Patriotism Monument, Colo., July 4. Hundreds of people came here today from Palmer Lake, Husted, Colorado Springs and towns east of here [...]

Denver Republican, April 13, 1893 Governor Waite at Monument Governor Waite paid Monument a visit today for the purpose of inspecting the Monument reservoir and determining whether the much-sought-for appropriation [...]

Colorado Springs Gazette, March 4, 1923 Ice Harvest Banquet Attracts Great Crowd at Monument All of Monument and a large portion of Palmer Lake and Colorado Springs turned out last [...]

Daily Republican (Denver), May 6, 1879 Monument Items On the fourth of November 1878, a private school was opened in Monument with fifteen pupils in attendance, which number was increased [...]

The Herald Defender (Leadville), October 13, 1938 Monument, Colo. Is First Town to Finish Project Under WPA To Monument, Colo., small Rocky mountain town five miles south of Palmer Lake, [...]

Colorado Springs Gazette, March 25, 1922 Monument Hotel Burns in Early Morning Fire One of Colorado’s oldest landmarks, the Monument Hotel, built in 1870, was burned to the ground yesterday [...]

Colorado Springs Gazette, January 5, 1916 Monument Hard Hit by Yesterday’s Wind Storm The town of Monument was badly hit by the storm, according to John Gilles, manager of the [...]

The Weekly Gazette, August 24, 1889 The Monument Fire Sunday about 11 a.m. the residence and harness shop of L.M. McFarland & Son was discovered to be on fire, and [...]

The Weekly Gazette, March 23, 1889 The Monument Fire Our city fathers visited every portion of the town ditch on Tuesday last, also the reservoir. The breaks in the ditch [...]

The Weekly Gazette, January 26, 1889 The Monument Fire After a long and vexatious delay, the new post office fixtures have arrived and are now placed in position and are [...]

Colorado Springs Weekly Gazette, January 19, 1889 Life’s Labor Ended Monument, Colo., Jan. 12. This morning our little city was thrown into a state of gloom and sadness by the [...]

Rocky Mountain News, August 21, 1895 Divide Potatoes Monument, Colo., Aug. 20. Carefully prepared statistics show that the potato crop now growing on the Divide is not up to the [...]

Rocky Mountain News, August 29, 1892 Finished by November Monument, Colo., Aug. 28. The state reservoir adjoining this place, so the contractor Hon. David McShane says, will be completed by [...]

Rocky Mountain News, July 16, 1892 Calamity Averted Monument, Colo., July 15. Another heavy rain which terminated into a flood visited this place today. The rain preceded an unusually warm [...]

Rocky Mountain News, May 6, 1892 New Mining Companies The Monument Treasure Mining & Milling company was incorporated yesterday by J.W. Mudge, J.W. McLean and Frank White. Capital stock $1,000,000. [...]

Rocky Mountain News, September 23, 1891 It Was a Success Monument, Colo., Sept. 21. “The Divide Potato Bake and Barbecue association” was organized in the autumn of 1889. The object [...]

Rocky Mountain News, August 13, 1891 Monument Wants the Seat of Government of Divide County Monument, Colo., Aug. 12. A largely attended and enthusiastic meeting was held in Walker’s hall [...]

Rocky Mountain News, February 4, 1891 Monument Wants the Seat of Government of Divide County Monument, Colo., Feb. 3. A largely attended mass meeting of the citizens of Monument was [...]

Rocky Mountain News, October 11, 1890 Monument had her potato bake, and it was a howling success. For more than a year the event has been discussed. A year ago [...]

Rocky Mountain News, June 11, 1890 Monument is excited over the postmastership. The late John M. Duffy was barely buried before the factions went to war over his successor. His [...]

Rocky Mountain News, October 25, 1889 The Potato Bake “Potato day,” which is to be celebrated at Monument one week from today, has awakened great enthusiasm all over the county, [...]

Rocky Mountain News, August 10, 1885 The Monument cheese factory is running with a full force and consumes about thirty-five hundred pounds of milk per day, equivalent to nearly four [...]

Rocky Mountain News, September 9, 1881 The building now used as a station house by the railroad company is soon to be made into a section house and a new [...]

Rocky Mountain News, August 19, 1881 Mrs. M. Lierd, an old lady living about a mile south of this city, had a very narrow escape from instant death on Wednesday. [...]

Rocky Mountain News, July 9, 1881 Our iron spring still continues to attract attention. The farmer’s heart rejoices—rain has come and plenty of it, and everything looks thriving once more. [...]

Rocky Mountain News, July 6, 1881 During the past week a new bell for the Baptist church [arrived], and with slight intermissions has been almost constantly rung since. It weighs [...]

Rocky Mountain News, June 29, 1881 Mr. H. Toothacker of Colorado Springs open a new blacksmith shop soon. Although this is one of the windiest towns in the state, it [...]

The [Denver and] New Orleans [rail]road has an agent constantly on the alert in this vicinity, and ties are picked up as fast as they make their appearance. [This railroad [...]

Rocky Mountain News, June 3, 1881 The Presbyterians are erecting a $2,000 house of worship, which will be completed and ready for occupancy in about two weeks. Mr. R.C. Elliott, [...]

Rocky Mountain News, December 28, 1879 The faculty of the State Agricultural college [at Greeley] will hold a farmers’ institute at Monument on Friday evening, January 2, and continuing over [...]

Rocky Mountain News, May 8, 1878 The Monument cheese factory and mercantile company filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state yesterday morning. The company had filed articles of [...]

Denver Post, January 1, 1910 Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan. 1. A windstorm which attained a velocity of seventy-five miles an hour caused innumerable small fires and considerable damage here yesterday [...]

Denver Post, January 19, 1901 Hanks and Doyle commenced cutting ice today on the Monument reservoir, filling their local orders. Should the weather permit they will have a number of [...]