Battlement Mesa, Garfield County, Colorado 39.44137 -108.02507 USA http://sws.geonames.org/5412887/about.rdf Battlement Mesa, Colorado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlement_Mesa,_Colorado Wikipedia entry for Battlement Mesa A small community on Battlement Mesa, near Parachute, Colorado. It was settled around 1895, with the Battlement Mesa School being constructed in 1897. According to Beatrice (Bailey) Underwood, an early resident, the area was largely agricultural at that time, with ranching, fruit orchards, and cash crops grown. According to Underwood, whose family arrived in Battlement Mesa in 1917, residents of the Mesa around that time included the Mahaffey, Gardener, Duplice, Sipperille, Chaffee, Morrow, Nordstrom, Werhonig, Williams, Kerr, and Kerle families. Her father, Thaddeus Bailey, owned farm and ranch land and owned and operated the Doll Brothers and Smith General Store in Grand Valley (Parachute). yes yes