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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />June 2017 <br />I�f city <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO * SINCE 187E <br />310 (330) County History <br />This parcel today has the address of 310 County Rd. Boulder County records show that two <br />structures are situated on it. They have the addresses of 310 and 330. Historically, when there <br />was one house on the parcel, it had the address of 330 County. That is the older house on the <br />north side of the parcel that is the subject of this report. A house situated farther south on the <br />parcel bears the address of 310 County Rd. This report will discuss the history of the house at <br />330 County and will refer to it that way, with the recognition that today the address of the <br />entire parcel is 310 County Rd. <br />Legal Description: Tract 708, Louisville, Colorado; also known as part of Section 8, T1S, R69W. <br />This parcel was not platted as part of a historic Louisville subdivision. <br />Year of Construction: circa 1900 <br />Summary: According to members of the Elliott family, this house at 330 County Rd. was located <br />in the 1930s near the construction of the Ralston Dam and Reservoir in Jefferson County, and it <br />was moved to Marshall before being moved to its current location. The Walter and Helen Elliott <br />family was associated with it from the 1930s to the 1960s. <br />Development of Tract 708 <br />Union Pacific Coal Company obtained ownership of this property. It appears that it obtained the <br />property in the 1880s or 1890s, possibly from the Union Coal Company, along with other <br />property in this area, including what would become the Louisville Grain Elevator parcel. In <br />1905, Union Pacific Coal Company sold this parcel and other parcels to Peter Murphy. <br />The parcel is bordered by County Road and the historic neighborhood of Frenchtown to the <br />west. The house at 330 County Rd. faces the alley between Parkview St. and Rex St. in <br />Frenchtown. To the north is a residential parcel (Tract 709) and to the east is the railroad. To <br />the south was, historically, was a railroad spur called the Ajax / Leader Spur. It went off of the <br />main tracks to the Ajax / Leader Mine located to the west. <br />1 <br />