Black Forest Community Club

Black Forest Community Club

12530 Black Forest Rd Black Forest, CO, 80908 719-495-3217 (Message only)

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Officers and Board:

President: Mack Sharp

Vice president: Kelly Marchbank

Secretary: Shelly Still

Treasurer: Cherie Erler

Board: Theresa Vialpando-Knoll (1 yr left)

Board: Tiffany Coles (2 yrs left)

Board: Sherrie Lidderdale (3 yrs left)

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About the Community Club

The Black Forest Community Club was chartered in 1929 as a social organization for families living in the Black Forest north of Colorado Springs. The club, which has 134 member families today, occupies a unique, community-built log building at the corner of Black Forest and Shoup Roads that is over 80 years old. The club has been the site of many events over the years including Black Rose Society concerts and many local clubs. The Community Club also sponsors Boy Scout Troop 70 and Cub Scout Pack 70.

The Black Forest Community Club is available for rentals for all occasions. If you are interested, please click here for more information.

Information on the purchase of the property to the north

History of the Black Forest Community Club

by Anna Mae Hawkins
"Keeper of the Forest" 1986

The Black Forest Community Club came into being in the mid 1920s. About 30 families lived in about a 420 square mile area bounded in the west by foothills, on the north by Douglas County line, on the east by Elbert County, across the south by a line from Falcon to Rattlesnake Hill, and then west to the foothills.

The people needed a place to hold meetings and social get-togethers. The little log school house on Shoup Road, just west of Black Forest Road, was not quite large enough. At that time, Black Forest Road was known as Templeton Gap Road because it was the road into Colorado Springs going through Templeton Gap northeast of Colorado Springs. In 1924 the people decided to build a hall. Gertrude Burgess donated the land for the building, and the people of the area donated trees from their properties. Everyone pitched in to put up the building which still stands near the corner of Black Forest and Shoup Roads. The men cut the trees with axes and cross-cut saws and hauled them to the building site. The women and children helped by peeling the bark from the logs. It was a big project for so few families.

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