Colorado Springs Eastonville Ghost Town Little Red School House Shoe Trade Card

Description: Colorado GHOST TOWN: ca. 1880's: Eastonville Mercantile Company, Eastonville, Col. - from an 1880's series of "Little Red School House" cards / all with Farm & Country School Scenes Eastonville: Black Forest, Castle Rock, Colorado Springs, Monument, Fountain, Elbert, Peyton, Kiowa For more about the El Paso County, Colorado, Ghostown of Eastonville, * SEE FAR BELOW * This is NOT a postcard ... but because many researchers & local history collectors search for main street businesses and vintage town history items like this under the Postcard category, the Dave Cheadle Card Store is listing some GREAT 19th Century Historical Trade Cards under various Post Card categories. To See More Colorado Postcards & Trade Cards Click Here: (( MORE COLORADO CARDS )) Red School House Shoes / C.M. Henderson & Co., Chicago / Factory: Dixon, Ills. Little Red School House Shoes: (some cards in the series say "Little" - some do not) / One-room School House Advertising Poetry Rhyme Poem: "Tis Harry's week to bring in wood..." - Boy, stove, stern Teacher, etc. * Eastonville * ... (now a Colorado Springs area Ghost Town) was once located in eastern Colorado from c. 1880-1935. It is no longer incorporated. The former town limits now reside in El Paso County, in the Colorado Springs metro area, near Black Forest. The area around Eastonville began settlement around 1872 when a post office was established a mile to the south of its eventual location on Squirrel Creek. The area was located in the Black Forest of Colorado and was found to be suitable for potato farming and many pioneers homesteaded in the vicinity. In 1881 the Denver and New Orleans Railroad (later the Colorado and Southern Railway) laid their tracks through the area and created a stop named "McConnellsville" near what is now Eastonville; this was the main standard gauge line from Colorado Springs to Denver until the 3-foot-gauge Denver and Rio Grande was 3-railed. Shortly after, in 1883, the area post office was moved north and named "Easton" for a local pioneer, John Easton. The town soon became Eastonville. At the behest of the railroad, the town moved a short distance to its current site. By the 1900s the town had 350-500 people. It had three churches, three hotels, a newspaper, a school house, race track, baseball field, and many businesses. Nine to ten passenger trains passed through everyday, and with at least that many freight trains using the tracks a constant rolling of locomotives could be heard day and night in the burgeoning city. It had become the self-proclaimed "potato capital of the world" and some years couldn't find enough workers to harvest the crops. Colorado Springs newspapers would print large advertisements offering work at respectable wages on the potato farms of Eastonville. It was one of the most prosperous farm centers in eastern Colorado that are now ghost towns. Eastonville continued as a stable town until the 1930s when drought and depression hit the west. In 1935 the area endured a potato blight and a flood which washed away many buildings in Elbert, the next town north on the railroad; the railroad was then abandoned. The town couldn't recover without the railroad, especially since Peyton (6 miles away) still had the Rock Island railroad. Little now remains of the original town other than a few buildings and the Eastonville Cemetery. 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Price: 85 USD

Location: Loveland, Colorado

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