Sugar Creek School


Sugar Creek Area near the Ox Yoke Ranch.
The school may have been in this area next to Sugar Creek.
Photo taken June 2000.

.....This may have been a joint district with Jefferson County. The Ox Yoke Ranch had a sawmill, and there were several families living in the area.
.....Josephine Marr (who identifies Sugar Creek as District 21 which is actually Horse Creek) states that William and Silas Kendall were on the 1888 School Board for this district. Silas Kendall purchased one quarter section at the site of what is now Trumbull, about 3 miles south of Sugar Creek.
.....The 1887 Castle Rock Record Journal states that " The Kendalls and Haughts have 20 children between them are organizing a school with comfortable seats. Listed as attending include Alphonso, and Alma Haught, Mary and Nellie Kendall, and Aley Burch.
.....The Sugar Creek School may have been discontinued in 1929, with the students being sent to Indian Park (District 7) and Sylvia (District 21). The 1899 Tax List indicates that District 26 was Sugar Creek at that time, though by 1902, the number appears to be assigned to Columbine School on County Line Road in extreme southern Douglas County.

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