History

The Indian Creek area was an area of multiple homesteads with minor farming but did have dairy and ranching in the late 1800's. Prussian Count Louis Pourtales even had a homestead in the central part of what is now Indian Creek Subdivision around the late 1870's to 1880's. The area was consolidated in ownership sometime in the early to mid 1900's. In the mid 1960's the Gregg family from Texas began subdividing and building roads, starting in the western part of Indian Creek and by the late 1960's the whole Indian Creek subdivision was set up and road access provided. In January 1984, Teller County grudgingly accepted the Indian Creek Roads. The above is what John Rakowski has learned over the years. When he first came through the area in 1962-63, Trail Creek Road and Wildhorn Road were the only improved roads that he remembers and were pretty narrow roads. They were still running cattle out here and he met the ranch owners, who at the time were living in the summertime in what is now the Castello Coffee House. They shipped cattle up from Texas to fatten over the summer.

Moonshiners were active up here during Prohibition. John has also seen the remains of cabins people lived in during the Depression 1930's or so based on artifacts around. Mineral specimen mining was big business from the late 1860's to recently.

Retired Ambassador Alexander Kirk, Castile Soap heir, may have been the one who consolidated the scattered ownership of the various Indian Creek area properties in the late 1940's/early 1950's into the cattle ranching enterprise that A.W. Gregg later subdivided.

Some of the eastern parts of Indian Creek didn't get subdivided until later, in the early 1970's by Gregg.

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