The Dodge Expedition, entering the Palmer Divide and Palmer Lake area. From the Expedition Journal, July 26, 1835 [ July 26, - Marched twenty-five miles in a direction S. 30° [...]

The bronze statue of Dizzy may be seen in the Village Green of Palmer Lake. Dizzy helped build the Star of Palmer Lake in 1935, during the Great Depression. Dizzy [...]

The Palmer Lake Chautauqua Assembly is a revival of the annual summer cultural gatherings that took place in the town’s rustic Glen from 1886 until 1910. The summer-long “tent university” [...]

The Star of Palmer Lake An original watercolor by local artist Dan Fraley                 It was summer of 1935, in the middle of [...]

The Palmer-Divide, a geological ridge running from Palmer Lake eastward, creates its own weather patterns and separates the Arkansas River drainage to the South & the Platte River Drainage to [...]

     "As Rare As Fairies" - Lucretia Vaile The most famous pioneer woman of Colorado was sixty-three years old when she retired to Palmer Lake in the spring of [...]

Lucretia Vaile's name has been associated with Palmer Lake since the 1880's when, as a small child, she came with her parents to spend the summers here. Throughout her lifetime [...]

The Historical Society and the Town of Palmer Lake have completed a memorial honoring William (Bill) J. Crawford. Bill, late of Palmer Lake, was awarded the Medal of Honor for [...]