Knob Hill, Colorado

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The Colorado Institute of the Education of the Mutes (now Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind) was founded by Jonathan R. Kennedy and opened on April 8, 1874. The school began with a Territorial appropriation of $5,000. It first operated in a rented house with seven students. Kennedy, who had worked at the Kansas State School for the Deaf, was the director of the school. He and his wife had children who attended the school.{{r|Sherlock}}{{r|CSDB}} William Jackson Palmer donated land to build a permanent school on Knob Hill, {{convert|1|mi|km}} east of Colorado Springs.{{cite book |author=Sherlock |first=Tom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T46bBnZIX6sC&pg=PA191 |title=Colorado's Healthcare Heritage |date=April 12, 2013 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-1-4759-8026-4 |page=191}}{{cite web |title=140th Birthday of CSDB |url=http://www.csdb.org/articles/140th-birthday/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210093930/http://www.csdb.org/articles/140th-birthday/ |archive-date=February 10, 2015 |accessdate=February 9, 2015 |publisher=Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind}} In 2014, there are 500 students across the state.{{r|CSDB}}

The Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers was dedicated on May 12, 1892.{{Cite news |date=May 13, 1892 |title=Childs-Drexel Home |url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18920513.2.17 |format=CDNC collection: image and transcript |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |accessdate=November 5, 2013}} It was run by the International Typographical Union to take care of ill and elderly patients.{{cite book|title=The Typographical Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztUGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156|year=1910|publisher=International Typographical Union.|page=156}} The home was bought by Heart Living Centers in 2014.{{cite web | url=http://more.ppld.org:8080/SpecialCollections/Index/ArticleOrders/2014/39/840399.pdf | title=New owners plan to keep status quo; Few changes for Union Printers Home | date=September 24, 2014 | newspaper=The Gazette | page= E 3:1 | accessdate=February 9, 2015 }}

The inventor Nikola Tesla's wireless power experimental station was located on Knob Hill at a site near the current Kiowa and Foote Streets, between the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind and the Union Printers' Home.{{cite book |author=Carlson |first=W. Bernard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5I5c9j8BEn4C&pg=PA266 |title=Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age |date=May 7, 2013 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=1-4008-4655-2 |pages=266–267}} It was built and operated in 1899 and was torn down in 1904.{{cite book |author=Peterson |first=Eric |url=https://archive.org/details/ramblecoloradowa0000pete |title=Ramble Colorado: The Wanderer's Guide to the Offbeat, Overlooked, and Outrageous |publisher=Fulcrum Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-933108-19-3 |page=36 |url-access=registration}} A street car came to Knob Hill, at that time at the edge of the prairie.{{cite book |author=Carlson |first=W. Bernard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5I5c9j8BEn4C&pg=PA268 |title=Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age |date=May 7, 2013 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=1-4008-4655-2 |page=268}}

The St. Francis Hospital was built on Institute Heights at the east end of Pike's Peak Avenue, near the Knob Hill street car line.

The Pikes Peak Gun Club was on Knob Hill near the city limits.

The Knob Hill Auction Company held monthly auctions on the hill to sell horses.{{cite book |author=Knox |first=Bob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCyk8aNoDJUC&pg=PA92 |title=Growing Up to Cowboy: A Memoir of the American West |date=January 2002 |publisher=Sunstone Press |isbn=978-0-86534-353-5 |page=92}} Livestock was sold weekly on Knob Hill, where there was also a nearby cafe.{{cite book |author=Knox |first=Bob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCyk8aNoDJUC&pg=PA94 |title=Growing Up to Cowboy: A Memoir of the American West |date=January 2002 |publisher=Sunstone Press |isbn=978-0-86534-353-5 |page=94}}

In 1950, 3,612 people lived in Knob Hill.{{cite book|author=United States. Bureau of the Census|title=Census of Population: 1950: Number of inhabitants|year=1972|url=https://archive.org/details/1970censusofpopu02unit|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=6:18}} On June 14 of that year, Knob Hill was annexed into Colorado Springs and became the Knob Hill neighborhood.{{cite book |author=Hayward |first=Kathy |url=https://archive.org/details/drinkingdrivingi0000hayw |title=Drinking and Driving in Colorado: A Guide to Colorado's Brewpubs |date=1 November 2009 |publisher=Inner Source Designs |isbn=978-0-9822571-1-1 |page=116 |url-access=registration}}

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• {{cite book|author1=Kathleen Murphy Beatty|author2=Phillippa Ormond Kassover|author3=University of Colorado at Colorado Springs|title=The Knob Hill Neighborhood Survey|year=1983|publisher=University of Colorado}}
• {{cite book|author1=Colorado Springs (Colo.). Community Development Department|author2=Colorado Springs (Colo.). City Planning Department|title=Knob Hill: Neighborhood Redevelopment Plan|year=1984|publisher=The Department}}

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