Douglas County is the seventh-most populous of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado. The county seat is Castle Rock.
Douglas County is part of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located midway between Colorado’s two largest cities, Denver and Colorado Springs.
These amazing photos from Archives and Local History at DCL that captured everyday life of Douglas County, Colorado in the late 19th century.
Arthur White outside the Manhart Store and Sedalia Post Office, Plum Avenue, Sedlia, Colorado, 1885
Manhart Store and Sedalia Post Office, Plum Avenue, Sedalia, Colorado, 1885
Manhart Store and Sedalia Post Office, Plum Avenue, Sedalia, Colorado, 1885
A couple (George Nickson and Sarah Paddison Nickson) stands outside their cabin was which made of logs and has a stone chimneyin the West Plum Creek area, 1887
Group of people posed near debris after ‘a big fire’ in Sedalia, Colorado, 1889
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