Edgerton, Colorado

Edgerton is an extinct town at the confluence of Monument Creek and West Monument Creek eight miles (12.9 km) north of present-day Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

[6] In the 1860s, Edgerton Hotel was established as the first stage station north of Old Colorado City on the route to Denver.

The station and two-story Edgerton Hotel, along old Camp Creek Road, were run by Leafy Teachout and her son, Harlow.

[4][5] The site of the hotel, stables, and stone barn are in a meadow along the Santa Fe Regional Trail.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho were hostile to the settlers, who make their houses to be like fortresses–make of stone and wooden walls as much as three-feet-(0.9-meter)-thick.

[3] Academy School District 20 was organized in 1886 by residents of Douglass, Pine, and Woodmen Valleys over a 36-square-mile (93.2 km2) area in 1874.

It became a farm and ranch house, and then the property was leased as pasture land, and the building burned down in 1941.

[2] When the highway, now Interstate 25, was built in the 1920s, there were even fewer visitors and it eventually ceased to exist as a village.

[9][11][10] It is along the Santa Fe Regional Trail[9] that connects to the Pikes Peak Greenway at the Ice Lake trailhead.