FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO - GLENDALE STAGE STOP Submitted by Robyn Asimus Glendale Once Was A Popular Stage Stop From the Canon City Daily Record-1962 Special Edition Old timers know where Glendale Place is. It was once an important stop-off for freighters, travelers and stages between Colorado Springs and Canon City. Only parts of the once handsome, two-story brick building now stand, crumbling and deserted. Glendale Place is located where the old Colorado Springs, Canon City road crosses Beaver Creek northeast of Canon City. In an edition of the Colorado Springs News published April 16,1954, Guy Parker relates a story about Glendale Place. Part of the item follows: About 1881, my parents and I made a covered wagon trip to Glendale Place on Beaver Creek to gather wild plums. Glendale Place was a fine two story stone house with beautiful lawn, shade trees and flowers and just back of it the orchard and plum thicket with the ripening fruit and a large garden filled with vegetables and melons. At the height of the Pueblo flood of 1921 the water was nearly to the second story of the Glendale House, and the orchard and plum thickets were torn out. That ground is now grown up to young cottonwood and willow trees. William Callen helped to build the Glendale house. His son, Ernest, remembered hearing his father tell that one time two well dressed men rode up to the Glendale and ordered dinner and feed for their horses. After eating and resting a spell they asked Mr. McClure if a certain gun hanging on the wall was for sale. McClure answered he would take $25.00 for the gun. The men agreed to take it at that price but said they had no money except a $100.00 bill. Mc Clure accepted the bill, counted out their change and then they got on their horses and rode off. A few days after this incident a sheriff’s posse from Canon City rode into the Glendale Place looking for these two men who were found to be counterfeiters of $100.00 bills. The men were caught and sent to the penitentiary. Submitted by Robyn Asimus and her son Chris Asimus. William Callen was her gg-uncle. ------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) Archives and by the COGenWeb Project Archives (http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm) USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for presentation in any form by any other organization or individual. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist.