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Butters set the table for Parker

By CPC | Dec 1, 2025

Parker is an appealing Front Range bedroom community with an Old West flavor. The town is vastly different from its beginnings when it was a bullwhackers’ haven, a mere stopping…

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Cherry Creek: An outsized impact on Douglas County

By CPC | Nov 1, 2025

Water is the lifeblood of civilization. Responsibly managed with a rational long-term outlook, it has been of singular importance in the development of our western states. When first observing the…

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Doc and the “quack” up the canyon

By CPC | Oct 1, 2025

It was by fate and then luck that Olin John “Jack” and later “Doc Jack” Butterfield and Dorothy Benway of Sedalia met and married. Both were born in the late…

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Abbe Ranch – Part 2: Evolution into an equestrian haven

By CPC | Aug 27, 2025

  Picking up where we left off last month, James Abbe’s roaring lifestyle had a way of unraveling marriages. In 1944, he and Polly separated. After co-authoring three travel books,…

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Ranchers and cowboys: Douglas County trademarks

By CPC | Jun 27, 2025

  In May, the Wiens Ranch in south Sedalia hosted a cutting horse competition, reminding us that ranching was and remains significant to the economic welfare of Douglas County. William…

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Matrimony: The third time was a charm

By CPC | May 28, 2025

Born in 1828 in Sligo, Ireland, Mary Jane Gallagher was the incorrigible child of a priest and a nun. Her father disowned her, when at 16, she took passage on…

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Sandstone Ranch: a history sculpted by strong women

By CPC | May 1, 2025

March 13 made for a remarkable presentation by Beryl Jacobson, a volunteer historian for Douglas County, on the history of Sandstone Ranch at the Douglas County Libraries – Philip &…

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Beans galore in Douglas County

By CPC | Apr 1, 2025

  Our Douglas community thrived on Beans in the late 19th and early 20th Century. But not the kind you think… The Bean family lineage began with John Marean Bean…

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The father of Franktown, and more

By CPC | Mar 1, 2025

  Our early settlers were tough and resilient. Even so, James Frank Gardner from Attica, New York, stood out. Tired of living with his parents at age 22, Frank came…

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Chasing windmills

By CPC | Feb 1, 2025

  Windmills played important roles on our county’s often-parched ranchlands.  Simple and necessary, some also see them as works of art, even symbols. In 2021, the Highlands Ranch Historical Society…

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