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"Great Buildable, Pristine Piece of Prop!"
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Address:
1150 S. Russellville Road
Type: Lots and Land
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Lot Type: Irregular
Lot Size:
10.22acres
Taxes: $88.00 (2009)
MLS®: 742477
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Own your own piece of history! We have 9.79 acres of pristine land located at 1150 S. Russellville Road! With multiple building sites, this parcel offers serene views, meadows for your horses, natural year-round stream, mature trees, wildlife, easy access and well. This rare parcel of land comes complete with its own piece of history.
Russellville Ranch, a 33-acre private ranch just southeast of Franktown, is the earliest settlement in Douglas County. It has several ties to Confederate history as well as “Pike’s Peak or Bust” gold rush tales. From the first gold discovery, the first sawmill, the first cabin and the first Settlers Town before Denver!
After the War Russellville became a lumber supplier with as many as 6 mills operating in the 1880’s. It’s location within the Black Forest provided plenty of Ponderosa Pine lumber for the booming Colorado economy. The town eventually faded into history and became part of a private ranch. In 2004 Douglas County designated the ranch a historic landmark.
Franktown takes its name from James Frank Gardner, a would-be gold miner who built a squatter's cabin four miles north of here in 1859. A popular rest stop on the busy Jimmy Camp Trail (which followed Cherry Creek into Denver), "Frank's Town" was designated the seat of Douglas County in 1861; the settlement moved to its current location two years later. Though railroads made the trail obsolete after 1870, and the county offices moved to Castle Rock in 1874, Franktown remained a ranching and farming hub, held together by its church, school, grange, and handful of businesses. It never incorporated, and during the twentieth century no more than a hundred people called it home, but that's how the locals liked it. Even as suburban sprawl surrounded it in the 1990s, Franktown resisted efforts to develop, maintaining a distinctly rural identity.
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Historical Site
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No Covenants
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Zoned for Horses
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Easy Access
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Year-Round Stream
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Multiple Building Sites
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Mature Trees and Meadows
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Peaceful Community
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