[6] The town—bounded by the present El Paso Street, Templeton Gap Road, and Fillmore Street—had a steel company, power plant, farms, and a large greenhouse.

[11] A social program was implemented about 1919 by Professor A. P. R. Drucker and his students from Colorado College for immigrants to teach English, civics, history, and math.

[15] Subsequently, there were water development construction projects by the federal government to protect Colorado Springs and Papeton from floods.

[16][17] An airstrip was built on 320 acres owned by the Colorado Springs Company west of Papeton by Winfield E. Bowersox, who learned to fly and attained his pilot's license in 1913 from the Wright Aviation School.

In 1954, the Venetian Village subdivision was established between Templeton Gap, Columbine and Hancock Roads[d] with streets named for flowers, like Primrose and Larkspur.