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Standing on boardwalk in front of log building in Wolcott (l. to r.): Mrs. Playford, Mrs. Johanna Holland, and Mrs. Mary Jane Hanscome. The screen door is open, front door is shut. The doors are located between two long windows. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"M. H. [Martin H.] and Clara Waldo came to Brush Creek around 1902 and ranched across the creek from the Shryacks until 1917, when they retired in California. Tom Carlin bought the ranch, and subsequent owners were Hans and Thelma Larsen and Glenn and Denzel Norman." -- [History of Brush Creek p.26] The Waldo's had one daughter who married Ralph Wolverton. This couple had a son, Charles Wolverton.
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Duroux - Albert house built in 1906 in El Jebel.
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The Derby Mesa Schoolhouse, Burns, Colorado, in 1980, being used as a private residence. The front of the school has had an addition at the front door with a roof overhang. The house number reads 13060. Gaylord Clark taught in this school from 1933-1935.
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Tom Knight standing in front of his home in 1959. [print copy date June 1984] "Thomas Knight was born near French Lick, Ind. May 28, 1886 and completed his education at Central Normal College, Ill. He first came to Colorado with his parents and brother, Robert in 1908. ... He first came to Eagle County in 1929 from Canon City and went to work for the Empire Zinc...until his retirement in 1949." --Eagle Valley Enterprise Aug. 11, 1960
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Peggy Whittaker and Eileen Randall outside a cabin at Brush Creek.
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Barn on the Crawford place, built in 1913, in El Jebel.
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Snowy day at the Beecher Gulch Place. Dixie the horse in front of barn; dogs, Boots and Rex in front of a 1937 Hudson Terraplane automobile. House in right midground.
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From left, Paul Roebling, Clarence and Helen Dubach examining ore core by barn in Triangle Park. Photograph is dated November/December 1966.
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Post office at Tigiwon, Colorado. Located on the way to Notch Mountain trail, it was used to postmark letters for people on pilgrimage to view the Mt. of the Holy Cross. The Post office was established June 5, 1929 and discontinued September 30, 1942 [from Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989, by Bauer, Osment and Willard, 1990]. There are several people standing next to an automobile and a camper with bedroll standing in front of the log building. [Title...
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LaGrow home, builit on East Cooley Mesa near Gypsum, in 1900. The LaGrow family moved to Gypsum in the 1970s.
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Front view of the Newquist Family cabin. Log construction with roof collapsing. Sagebrush surrounding the site. A spring was located on the slope below the cabin; water was hauled up to the cabin routinely.
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Taken from the hill above the Newquist Family log cabin, the deterioration of the roof structure and back wall is clearly visible. Additional structure visible in left background is a root cellar.
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Catherine "Katie" Lemley Gates and J. P. Gates with their grandchildren. From left, Katie Gates is holding Albert, Ruth, James P. Gates is holding Mary. In front, James and Frank Gates.
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"Always referred to as the Harris house, it has had considerable face lifting since the large Harris family occupied it for twenty eight years or from 1917 to 1945. Quite a number of people lived here before and since the Harrises. Earlier residents were the Towers, Porters and Robinsons." -- McCoy Memoirs p.173 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Sheephorn ranch, Eagle Co Colo." Photo postcard showing ranch house, outhouse and barn in background.
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Ellis, in uniform, Elizabeth, Rolland and Ray Bearden in front of the truck at the Bearden place.
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Bill Gates building constructed on Derby Mesa in 1929.
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"Cabin on former Ad Stifel Ranch in the Antelope section of McCoy." -- John Ambos caption [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The former Quinlan Ranch house on what is now the Ronald Kirby ranch. The Quinlan family lived here many years before the original dirt roof was replaced with one of boards." -- McCoy Memoirs p.143 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]