1860  Joseph Franklin Gile comes to Denver and settles on the Palmer Divide
 
July 10, 1860 Spring Valley is settled by George Redman, Jonathan Lincoln, Joseph Gile, Sheldon Spencer and “a small boy”

1864 Jacob & John Geiger come through the area accompanying a group of Confederate prisioners enroute to Bent’s Fort. Jacob Geiger was wounded and given a Civil War grant of land in Spring Valley.
 
Circa 1864 A  log fort is built in Spring Valley on the Pollick Ranch for protection from Indians.

1864  Stage stop Gile ranch which included a hotel

March 1865 Post Office established in the home of George W. Redman.

July 1865 Joseph Gile is postmaster succeeding Redman when Redman is killed by Indians.

1866 Frankstown and Giles Station Wagon Road Company incorporated (Gardner,  Brackett,   Gile).

Feb 9, 1866  Toll Road established from Frankstown to Spring Valley.

1867 Spring Valley “shown on Cherry Creek & Denver-Fountain City Trail” (notes of James Grafton Rogers).

1867   Area looted & burned by Cheyenne & Arapahoe Indians

1867     Jonathan Lincoln killed by Cheyenne Indians.
 
July 1874 200 Ute Indians camped 1 mile SE of the school

July 1884 Grange store ceases business & sells out to Jacob Geiger.

Jan 27, 1885  Lorenzo Leppert dies of smallpox, school children exposed

Feb 26, 1885  Janie Ritchey dies of smallpox.

1885  Spring Valley Store burns never to reopen.

July 3, 1885  Spring Valley Post Office closes.