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Quick Facts about Queen Palmer
& William Jackson Palmer |
| Queen Palmer
Elementary School was built in 1948. An addition was built in 1955, and
we have a capacity of 450 students. |
Queen Palmer was
the first school teacher in Colorado Springs.
She rented the
home of publicist W.E. Pabor to serve as a school and began teaching in
November of 1871. |
After Queen
died, Palmer moved his children back to Colorado and began remodeling
Glen Eyrie,
the home they bought in 1872. |
| We were
originally named Palmer Grade School, after General and Mrs. Palmer, our
city's founders. |
Queen Palmer had
a heart attack in 1880 when she was thirty years old. Soon after she
moved to England with her three daughters-born in 1872, 1880 and 1881.
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In 1906
Palmer was thrown from his horse while riding in
Garden of the Gods and was paralyzed
from the neck down. |
In 1959, Palmer
High School was built, so we became "Queen" Palmer Elementary.
(Mary Lincoln "Queen" Mellem was her maiden name.) |
General
Palmer visited her and the girls in England once or twice a year. Queen
Palmer died in England on December 27, 1894. She was forty-four years
old. |
In 1909 General William Jackson Palmer died at Glen Eyrie
with his daughters at his side. His ashes are at Evergreen Cemetery. He
was 72. |
