Historic Larkspur Area Ranches

Covering - Glen Grove, Greenland, Huntsville, Larkspur, Perry Park, Spring Valley, Tomah and Williamsville

This ranch list will give you some insight into where the early ranches were and what became of them.  The story of the Douglas County Pioneers continues through these ranches.  The Douglas County Ranching Family Tree has a span of over 150 years and shows an ever changing county.  When the ranch’s name changed, sometimes, so did the acreage.  Future additions to this list will show an overlapping of ownership and an ever changing map.

This is the life that many dreamed of cutting out of the frontier for themselves.  The life that these pioneers made for themselves did not only include cattle and horses, as you will read. Photos and maps are also shown to help round out the story.

The information that you will find is not all inclusive, if you have additions, corrections or questions, please write to the e-mail address provided on this web site.  Click on the ranch names to read the biographies.  The links will be going live over time, please check back often for additions to our list.

Abbe Ranch, James = Perry Park

Albin Ranch, George E. = Larkspur .  aka; Kinner Ranch, John; Joseph Kerr Ranch. (see Kinner Ranch.)

Alderman Ranch, Newton aka; Silver State Farm, Cherry Creek Ranch= Spring Valley   E. Cherry Creek.

Allis Ranch, Charles = Greenland

Babcock Ranch, Jerome C.  = Greenland.  Aka;  Simeon Green Ranch;  HX Ranch or Noble, Munson & Black Cattle Company; Mr. Church.  (See Green Ranch.)

Banner Ranch = 

Ben Lomond Ranch =  Greenland. aka; Bennet, Oakes & Daniels Ranch, Joseph F. Bennet Family, Harold Higginson Family.

Bennet, Hiram P. = Greenland. (See Ben Lomond Ranch.)

Best Ranch = Spring Valley

Binford Ranch = Tomah   

Brand Ranch, Charlie = Greenland (See Cold Springs Ranch.)

Brennan Ranch, Peter = Larkspur /Perry Park aka: Ford Place, Wallace Turner ranch.  

Brown Ranch = Spring Valley 

Bucks Ranch = Spring Valley

Butler Ranch = Greenland.  (See Hudson & Butler Ranch.)

Cantril = Perry Park

Cherry Creek Ranch = Spring Valley.  Aka; Silver State Farm, Newton Alderman Ranch.  (See Alderman Ranch.)

Cold Springs Ranch  = Greenland.  aka; Charlie Brand Ranch, Angus McBane/McIntosh Ranch, Tom Oxley, E. E. Myers Ranch, Tom Oxley Family, Wilbur Dowdy, Colonel Danks, Edward Serrell Family, Jerry R. Noe

Crosswhite, Charles Edgar = Cherry/Spring Valley/Williamsville

Crull Ranch, William = Huntsville.  aka; Hammond Ranch, Crull Cabin ( also spelled Kruel and Krull)  

Crystal Springs Ranch = Greenland 

Dakan Ranch, Allan & George = Perry Park

Daniels Ranch = Greenland  (See Ben Lomond Ranch.)

Dillon, William =

Divide Ranch = Divide/Larkspur

Donley Ranch = Larkspur.

Eagle Mountain Ranch = Greenland.  aka; The Noe Family, I.J. Noe.

Feather Ridge Farm = Spring or Cherry Valley.   aka; Andy Seaburg Ranch, Russell Dahlberg Ranch.

Fritz Ranch =   Greenland.

Gard, John = Greenland.  Aka; Melvin Olson Ranch

Gandy, Henry Harper = Spring or Cherry Valley

Gard = Greenland

Geiger Ranch = Spring Valley

Gove Ranch, Asa = Perry Park.  aka; Gilbert & Harland Palm Ranch. Gove Canon and Gove Creek

Grant Ranch = Perry Park.  Aka: Haystack Ranch

Green Ranch, Simeon = Greenland . aka;  HX Ranch or Noble, Munson & Black Cattle Company; Mr. Church; Jerome C. Babcock Ranch.

Greenland Ranch = Greenland.  aka; Greenland Breeding Farm.

Grout Ranch, Newton = Glen Grove. (see Jackson Creek Ranch.)

Hammond Ranch, John =  Huntsville.  (see Crull Ranch)

Haystack Ranch = A.K.A. = Sandstone Ranch. AR Sandstone LLC, John Burke, Burkhardt, May Byran, Eugene Campagnola, R. Edson, Kathleen Chambers, Thomas Cornish, Boyd Cousins, Nathan Dozois, Ruth Duryea, Mandi England, Frank Fazio

Carl Gross, John Koontz, ,Gerald Leiser, Memmex, Anna Palm, Gilbert Palm, Harlan Palm, Charles Perry, Betty Prince, Dan Reid, Charles Richardson, George Robinson, Harry Starr, Tom Starr, Seth Thompson, Earl and Elsie Tucker, Floyd - Wilma Turner, Wallace Turner, Sherrod Vincent, Benjamin Webb

Higby = Greenland

Hidden Valley Ranch = Greenland 

Higginson, Harold = Greenland.  (See Ben Lomond Ranch also).

Hopkins Ranch, Isaac = Greenland. (See Hudson & Butler)

Hudson & Butler Ranch, Algernon Hudson & Henry R. Butler   Greenland.   aka; Isaac Hopkins Ranch.

Hunt Ranch = Huntsville

HX Ranch = Greenland.  Aka; Noble, Munson & Black Cattle company; Mr. Church, Jerome C. Babcock Ranch. (See Green Ranch.)

Jackson Creek Ranch = Glen Grove.  Newton Grout Family.

Johnston, Samuel L. = Greenland

Keene Ranch = Larkspur (Tomah)

Kerr Ranch, Joseph = Larkspur.   aka; Kinner Ranch, George E. Albin Ranch. (See Kinner Ranch)

Kinner Ranch, John = Larkspur . aka; Joseph Kerr Ranch, George E. Albin Ranch.

Lamb Ranch = Larkspur

Lambert = Spring Valley

Lavelett Ranch = Spring Valley 

Lincoln Fur Farm = Larkspur.

Lincoln Ranch = Spring Valley 

Lombard = Greenland

Lorraine Ranch, Joseph = Spring Valley

Lowell Ranch = Greenland/Round Top

Machurst Ranch, James P. McInroy = Larkspur.  McInroy family

McDowell Ranch = Greenland 

McClure Ranch =

McInroy, James P. = Larkspur  (See MacHurst Ranch.)

Metz Ranch = Metz canyon

Ministar/Mintspar Ranch =

Morehead Ranch = Greenland 

Myers Ranch, E.E. = Greenland.  (See Cold Springs Ranch) 

Nickson Ranch, George = Perry Park.  aka; Park Valley Ranch, Nickson Brothers Ranch.  

Nimerick Ranch, James M. = Greenland.

Noe, Jerry = Larkspur

Noe Ranch, Isaac Jegirtha = Greenland.  (See Eagle Mountain Ranch.)

Norris Ranch, George Whitefield = Greenland (Also spelled Nores)

Oakes, Daniel C. = Greenland.  (See Ben Lomond Ranch.)

Olson Ranch, Melvin = Greenland.  (See Gard Ranch)

Palm Ranch, Gilbert & Harland = Perry Park.  aka; Gove Ranch  (See Gove Ranch)

Palm/Simey & Potts = Perry Park

Park Valley Ranch = Perry Park  (see Nickson Ranch)

Perry Park Ranch = Perry Park. aka; John Dietz Perry, Bela M. Hughes, William E. Hughes, J. George Leyner, Robert P. Lamont, Jr., Walter Paepcke, Boyd E. Cousins, Lee Stubblefield.

Peterson Ranch = Lake Gulch

Petrie Ranch = Greenland

Plum Creek Ranch =  Perry Park or Tomah

Pollock Ranch = Greenland

Quick Ranch, Benjamin = Perry Park  

Ratcliff, George = Larkspur

Remington = Greenland

Robinson Ranch = Perry Park 

Rock Ridge Ranch = Cherry Valley

Salomon Ranch = Greenland.  aka; Fed Z. Salomon, Salomon Brothers, Salomon Gas, Oil & Coal Company.

Seaburg Ranch, Andy = Spring Valley or Cherry Valley.  (See Feather Ridge Farm.)

Sedbrook = Greenland

Simey & Potts Ranch = Perry Park.  (See Charles J. Palm Ranch.)

Silver State Farm = Spring Valley.  Aka; Newton Alderman Ranch; Cherry Creek Ranch. (See Alderman Ranch.)

Sinclaire Ranch = Perry Park

Smith Ranch = (Greenland) 

Smith, Jacob = Larkspur.  (See Whitehead Ranch.)

Smith Ranch, Upton Treat = Larkspur

Spring Creek Ranch = Larkspur, Mrs. Crull

Starr Ranch= Perry Park.  Harry, Tom & Walter.

Swinney Brothers Ranch = Perry Park

Swinney, King Ranch = Perry Park

The Old Waddy Place = Larkspur. (See Dan Whitehead Ranch.)

Thompson, William Jackman= Larkspur

Turner Ranch, Wallace = Larkspur or Perry Park

U.T. Ranch = (see Upton Treat Smith Ranch)

Ware Ranch = Larkspur

Whitehead Ranch= Williamsville and Larkspur  aka; Waddy Place, Jacob Smith Ranch.

Williams, David R. = Williamsville

Winkler Ranch = Spring Valley