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Piney Creek Chapter National
Society Daughters of the American Revolution |
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Welcome! The Piney Creek Chapter, NSDAR, was organized on December
11, 2004, with 21 members. The name Piney Creek was chosen from the once
prominent creek that flowed through this area. In addition to the historic
Piney Creek, the Melvin schoolhouse is shown in our chapter logo. It
preserves the memory of John G. Melvin, one of the area's first permanent
settlers. History of the Piney Creek
Area For centuries, native American Indians roamed and hunted
the land along Piney Creek.
Descendants of early settlers recount many tales of the Arapahoe Indian
camps along its northern bank. They
tell how, as children, they scoured the area looking for arrowheads following
heavy rains each Spring. The white man arrived in the Piney Creek area around 1859
when gold was discovered in the Rockies.
Hoping to strike it rich, thousands of immigrants poured over an
ancient Indian trail that traversed Kansas along the Smoky Hill River to the
new supply town of Denver. This main
“highway” to the gold fields of the Rockies became known as the Smoky Hill
Trail. Near the present day city of
Limon, in Eastern Colorado, this trail divided into three branches. The shortest, and the most treacherous,
route to Denver continued along the trail’s middle branch. One section of this harsh trail followed a
stream bed along the north bank of Piney Creek. Until commencement of construction to build
a housing subdivision, pronounced trail ruts from the wagons of these early
settlers could still be seen. Today, Piney Creek is located in the southern most portion
of 700 acres of a planned community that bears its name. It lies east of Parker Road at Orchard in
South Arapahoe County. For information about
this site, please contact the webmaster. Last updated August 16,
2008. The
DAR Insignia is the property of, and is copyrighted by, the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Web hyperlinks to non-DAR sites are not the responsibility of the
NSDAR, the state organizations, or individual DAR chapters. |
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