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Excerpts
“Stand with me on top of one of those highest hills – what do you see? No humble cabin made by a white man’s hands – no roads made by rude wagons. It is almost as God made it – the timber stands serenely – here and there a path worn deeply by moccasined feet winds about...”
Indian Creek Ranch – Jarre Canon
“So ere the departing sun drew through the mountain gaps her golden ribbons, we turned up a green valley which, though miles in length, was as straight as the last threads of light that stream down this magic way. It was so regular, so lovely, I imagined an angel had inverted a rainbow and with it plowed his course far into the mountains........”
Perry Park
The Douglas County News for July 8, 1876 summarizes Douglas
County’s progress since her first settlement was made at Russellville in
June 1858, until July 1876, thus:
Douglas County has advanced from a wilderness county with scarcely fifty
white inhabitants and not a decent dwelling house on her whole 5,000 square
miles of territory to two counties (Elbert and Douglas) with a population of
6,000 inhabitants.
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