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History · Beulah Valley

43% of Beulah Valley’s homes were built before 1940

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What stands out about Beulah Valley’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Beulah Valley are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Beulah Valley’s homes were built before 1958.
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The story

How Beulah Valley came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Beulah Valley.

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The town of Mace's Hole was settled in 1862. The town was named for Juan Maes, anglicized to "Mace," a bandit who used the valley for a hideout. The Mace's Hole, Colorado Territory, post office opened on April 23, 1873, and Colorado became a state on August 1, 1876. A local preacher took umbrage at the town's name and suggested the biblical name Beulah as a more wholesome alternative. The Mace's Hole post office was renamed Beulah on October 25, 1876. The name is a reference to Isaiah 62:4; it comes from the Hebrew for "married."

Bishop Castle, constructed by Jim Bishop, otherwise known as a "one man castle", is located between Beulah and San Isabel, Colorado.

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Timeline

Beulah Valley, 1873 to 1876

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873Post officeThe Maces Hole post office opens
  3. 1876Post officeThe Maces Hole post office closes
  4. 1876Post officeThe Beulah post office opens
By decade

Beulah Valley, decade by decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Beulah Valley

Nobody well known was born in Beulah Valley itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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David PackardAmerican electrical engineer, businessman, and … · b. 1912
Connie SawyerAmerican actress · b. 1912
Donald Howard MenzelAmerican astronomer · b. 1901
Grant WithersAmerican film actor · b. 1905
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Joe BordeauxActor · b. 1886
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Stanley WagnerCanadian ice hockey player · b. 1908
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Maces Hole, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Maces Hole
1873–1876
Beulah
1876–today
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Hamlets and corners on the map
BeulahValley View
1cemetery inside Beulah Valley
Beulah

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.