Timeline
1875 - Burton C. Myers | 720 Acre farm
1875 - Frederick Pitkin purchased Myers’ farm
William Dixon purchases several hundred acres running south along slopes
and base of Cheyenne Mountain
1878 - Cheyenne Mtn. Toll Road | George Baird builder
1881 - Myers property plus 880 acres
purchased by William Willcox
created Broadmoor Dairy Farm
1885 - Dr. Solly introduces Count James M. Pourtales to Willcox
Pourtales creates Cheyenne Lake, Land and Improvement Company
1889 - Pourtales plants 2000 trees, marking streets, held water rights to Cheyenne Creek
1887- City of Colorado Springs steals Pourtales’ Cheyenne Creek water (due to drought)
resulting in the demise of the Count’s 2000 trees
1989 -Pourtales paid $20,000 pledge for electric street car company replacing
horse-drawn Tejon Street line and extending tracks to Cheyenne Canon through
Broadmoor
1890 - Cheyenne Lake (ten-acre) filled with Cheyenne Creek water leaked away due to
prairie dog holes.
1891 - Construction of Broadmoor Casino on top of dam
1900 - Stratton purchases Dixon ranch 20 acres at junction of
north and South Cheyenne Creeks from Dixon
June 6, 1901 - Stratton Park opens
September 6, 1902 - Stratton dies, leaves Colorado College $20K, Colo. D&B, $25K
1916 - Spencer Penrose announces plans for Broadmoor Hotel
1921 - Penrose achieves building of Lake Avenue
1922 - Short Line Railroad put up for auction
1922 - First exhibitions of Cheyenne Mtn. Zoo animals built by Penrose
1923 - Penrose part owner of Gazette and invites Jack Dempsey
to stay at Broadmoor and attempt to run the 7 steep miles of the Cheyenne Mtn. Highway, attempting to beat the 57 minute record of a Hopi Indian named Amesoli Patazoni.
1924 - W.D. Corley opens Corley Toll Highway (Gold Camp Road)
1925 - Penrose completes construction of Cheyenne Mountain Highway to top of Cheyenne Mountain
1925 - Zlmon G. Junior sells Cog Train to Penrose for $50K
1931 - Construction of shrine on Cheyenne Mountain
1932 - bus system introduced to park
1937- Fred Chamberlain donated 160 acres to park.
1946 - Rock climbing Amphitheatre constructed
1957 - Bruin Inn burns down
1990 - Relocation and opening of Starsmore House at the foot of the canon.
1998 - 314 acres of additional land added to park (originally owned by Stratton).
1966 -“Helen Hunt Falls” officially names
