Spring Creek Cemetery, Teller County, Colorado Donated to the Colorado Archives by the Pikes Peak Genealogical Society, July 10, 2001. Questions may be directed to: Cemetery Project, Pikes Peak GS, P.O. Box 1262, Colorado Springs, CO 80901 See the USGenWeb copyright notice at the end of the file. ___________________________________________________________________ To find the remains of Spring Creek Cemetery, from the town of Florissant on U.S. Highway 24 drive south on Teller County Road 1 approximately 13.6 miles and turn left onto Anges Road. Follow it for 1.1 miles and turn right at Troy Drive; follow it for 1.4 miles and turn left at Copper Mountain Drive. When you reach the T intersection of Copper Mountain Drive and Monarch Drive, park. South of the T is a pasture with a disintegrating log cabin. Fenced with barb wire, the cemetery is in a grove of aspen trees about 150 feet behind the cabin. On foot, follow the old road up the hill, and past the cabin on the left. The cemetery is visible south of a fork in the old road. The original wooden fence is falling down, but the cemetery (about 6 yards by 5 yards) has been fenced again with iron posts and barbed wire. According to GPS-derived geolocation (accurate to within 10 meters), the cemetery's coordinates are 38ø 46'16.6"N and 105ø10'50.9"W. At one time there were as many as 16 graves in this cemetery, which is said to have been established in 1893. The one remaining marker is for the young son of Spring Creek residents Jacob and Josephine Abby: Lloyd L. Abby born Mar. 21, 1890 died Jan. 25, 1896 =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.