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October 1956: Clarence Dubach shows off his buck head in front of the New Cabin in Triangle Park, Fulford, Colorado.
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1900-1920: The Perch [sic.] house is now the oldest standing building on Squaw Creek. The log cabin structure, is shown in the snow. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Lucy Doll standing in front of the original Doll family cabin at Dotsero. Franklin and his brother Samuel arrived at Dotsero in 1886. They purchased a ranch in Gypsum Valley which became the Doll Brothers and Condon ranch. Franklin brought his wife Lucy and children Sam and Susan to Dotsero in 1887, coming from Ohio. The family spent the winter of 1887 in this cabin. [Either this photo or 2012.012.001 is flipped.]
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Full view of Red Cliff town park at the foot of Monument Street. Playground equipment, log cabin, picnic benches and barbecue grill are in place. On the left on Pine St. is Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church. The center building is a house being constructed for Mary Pacheco.
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Myret Beal's husband, Biz, holding the hand of Jim Powell (son of Maxine King Powell) in Red Cliff. The small log cabin behind the pair is the first cabin built in Red Cliff by Wm. Greiner and G. J. DaLee in 1879. This cabin was later occupied by Jack Elliott in the 1940s.
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Sarah Mabel Brown was born in Polk City Iowa July 14, 1877 and her family later moved to Chicago. She was the last Fulford school teacher 1909-1912. She went by Mabel S. Brown. She met surveyor/miner William (Billy) Colerick (1869-1944) in Fulford. She died Oct.1, 1964, age 87 in Los Angeles Ca. She would have been about 80 in the 1957 photo of Mabel's Madhouse. Mabel bought and owned the Fulford cabin in her name alone (1927). The original 1893...
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Interior of the Howe cabin, restored by Jack Oleson. Jack created the "stove" from actual stove parts and a wooden box. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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A cabin at The 21 place on the Benton ranch, built in 1919. Partially burned down.
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1920s: Construction of the Forest Ranger's cabin, Basalt, Colorado. Scaffolding and support work visible around the log cabin; roof not yet finished. Logs in foreground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Jolly family cabin on the Flat Tops (at the head of Grizzly Creek) during a fishing trip in 1950. Sod roof on the cabin. Buster Beck, Frank Robinson and Chuck Colby participated.
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July 1957: Clarence's Dubach's "spread" in Triangle Park, Fulford, Colorado. Many buildings and barns are visible, including a car, yellow/orange truck on the right side of the photograph, wood piles, and fencelines. View NE.
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Olsen dwelling built 1919 south of State Bridge. Unidentified man standing by fence.
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Buerger dwelling built in 1941, at 5798 Sweetwater Road. Fence encloses yard.
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"Doc" Warren Jacobson and Lislotte Anderson Jacobson standing in front of one of six homesteads on the Jacobson Ranch. This cabin was built by Ada Slusser, sister of Lucy Ellen Slusser Doll (married Frank Doll), in 1890. It was called the honeymoon cabin because, according to the late Myrtie Stephens, the girls from Sweetwater used to go there on their honeymoons (the Stephens girls, as well as others in the community). It is one of six homesteads...
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Log homestead on the west side of Castle Peak, Eagle County. Owned by Palmroy (or Palmory...conflict in sources) and no longer in existence. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Last of the homesteader's cabins, northwest side of Castle Peak, taken in 1988.
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Hunting at the Doll family cow camp on Onion Ridge. Frank (H. F.) Doll is at left; trailer bed contains deer and equipment.
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Mabel Colerick bought and owned the Fulford cabin in her name alone (1927). The original 1893 cabin burned in 1949 and was rebuilt as Mabel's Madhouse in the early 1950s by Dick Turgeon. That was the cabin Harvey Ickes inherited (we are not sure how). The 1972 photo of me, Mike, and Harvey Ickes [Easter Sunday] shows the west side of the former Colerick cabin in deep snow. The Ickes family still has the Mabel's Madhouse sign. -- Rich Perske,...
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The log cabin built by Frank and Lucy Doll in Dotsero and which was moved to Gypsum around 1890. Most likely Lucy and Frank on the porch with large crate and antlers.
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Mabel Colerick bought and owned the Fulford cabin in her name alone (1927). The original 1893 cabin burned in 1949 and was rebuilt as Mabel's Madhouse in the early 1950s by Dick Turgeon. That was the cabin Harvey Ickes inherited (we are not sure how). This photo shows Mabel Colerick (71), Olive Gabelman, and an unidentified visiting couple at the front (north side) of the 1893 era log cabin -- Rich Perske, 2014