May is an anniversary month for the town of Fountain and it’s in all their history books for the most explosive of reasons. It’s called “The Blast” and it flattened the little town south of Colorado Springs.
It’s just part of an interesting history. Fountain’s roots go back to the Ute Indians who wintered at Jimmy Camp Creek and Fountain Creek. Trappers had trading posts along the Fountaine Qui Bouille, or “bubbling springs.”
Fountain had been homesteaded and founded in 1859 along Fountain Creek and by the 1880s had two railroad lines, the Denver & Rio Grande and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. It wasn’t incorporated as a town until 1903…