Doyle Settlement

 NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, abandoned settlement, historic ruins

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The Doyle Settlement was one of the earliest non-mining communities established in Colorado. Structures were built here beginning as early as the 1850s and continued through the 1860s. Today, only a small schoolhouse still stands, with evidence of foundation ruins elsewhere on the site. The most prominent building that existed here was the "Casa Blanca", a large white wood-frame house built by Joseph Doyle. Elsewhere there were a number of smaller adobe houses, an adobe store, a gristmill, a blacksmith shop and an earlier schoolhouse. At the northwest corner of the property is a small cemetery containing interments of some of the residents of this early community. The settlement is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for its significance in the areas of archaeology, commerce, exploration & settlement, architecture and agriculture.