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Name the area’s first neighborhood and how it was founded. If you answered: downtown at the southeast corner of Pikes Peak and Cascade avenues where Gen. William Jackson Palmer’s men drove the first stake to lay out the city on July 31, 1871, you are wrong. Palmer’s men did pound a ceremonial stake on that spot to line the streets of his alcohol-free Little London. But that ceremony took place two decades after the first real neighborhood formed near the confluence of Camp Creek and Fountain Creek just south of the Garden of the Gods along what is now 31st Street. Camp Creek was the summer campsite of Ute Indians; and then it became a place where prospectors gathered and bought supplies before heading up Ute Pass. 

Pleasant Valley is an early example of a neighborhood created with design covenants. The developer required a number of things intended to ensure the neighborhood remained a cultured neighborhood. Those rules included minimum and maximum setback lines for homes, common now in city codes. The covenants strictly prohibited barns and chicken coops and imposed square-footage rules, nothing smaller than 800 square feet. 

Four homes in Pleasant Valley were built on farmland between 1870 and 1927 along Camp Creek. The majority of homes were built in the 1950s and 60s and are ranch style or split-level with mature trees and amazing views of Pikes Peak. 

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