Jacob Fowler's Lookout - Fountain City

Jacob Fowler could barely spell, and he wrote everything down. Second in command of Hugh Glenn's twenty-man trading party out of the Verdigris River, he kept a daily journal that Elliott Coues published in 1898, the first detailed account of the southern plains since Pike. In January 1822 the party built a log house and horse pen near the mouth of the Fountain, first on the Spanish south bank of the Arkansas and then across on the American side. Paul, a man Fowler enslaved, was among them. The gold seekers' Fountain City of 1858 grew into Pueblo.

What the plaque says

This tablet is the property of the State of Colorado The hill one block east is Jacob Fowler's Lookout later called Sugar Loaf Hill. Near it in a log house Fowler and his trappers lived in Jan., 1822. Fountain City predecessor of Pueblo and founded in the fall of 1858, ran west from the hill to the Fountain River. Men who came as goldseekers remained to farm, trade, and found a city. Erected by the State Historical Society of Colorado from the Mrs. J.N. Hall Foundation and by the Fontaine Qui Bouille Chapter, N.S.D.A.R. 1936

Where it stands

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