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62. Lucy Doll
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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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Brian Hall of the Porchlight Players, portraying both mountain man John Root during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
John Root was born in 1835 and died December 1919. He came to the Eagle River valley while the Ute...
64. Mabel Colerick
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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...
65. Holden Family
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The Holden family at Beaver Creek. Agnes Holden (Randall) is the girl at far right. Agnes and her family moved to their ranch at Beaver Creek from Washington state in 1912. "Agnes completed grades one through eight in Avon and then attended school in Minturn, Colo. for two years. She then attended school for two years in Gypsum, Colo. graduating from the high school there in 1928. In 1929, she was married to Harold Randall and they moved to Eagle,...
67. Booco Ranch
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"Members of the Booco family grouped by their cabins on Alkali Creek near Wolcott about 1920. From left to right: Isaac Booco, Cecil Terrell Playford and daughter, Grandmother Margaret Booco, Margaret Terrell, Mrs. Mary Booco, Jack, Billy, Gordon, Ben and Gern Booco." -- McCoy Memoirs p.185
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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WIlliam Henry "Bill" George was born April 21, 1850, in Cooper County, Missouri. His family moved to Valley View, Cooke County, Texas, to help his arthritis or rheumatism. While he was living in Valley View, Texas, Bill George met and married Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster. They married on October 23, 1873, in Cooke County, Texas. -- The Gates Genealogy
Bill died in 1900 in Breckenridge, Colorado.
69. Pioneer Day 1974
70. Virginia Alvord
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Virginia Ann Burk Beam Alvord "made Eagle her home for many years, and operated restaurants in various locations of Eagle from the early days until during the '30s." [Eagle Valley Enterprise, July 31, 1969] She died in Colorado Springs July 28, 1969, just 18 days after her 91st birthday, while living with a daughter.
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Section 3 of "A Glossary of Vail Valley Names" focuses on Beaver Creek resort. The name "Beaver Creek" might be guessed to have been adapted by the early pioneers and trappers in the area.
What's in a name? The Simontons link the rich heritage of Eagle County pioneers to the names of our trails, ski runs, lifts, streets, and restaurants. Arrowhead and Beaver Creek were once home to ranchers, livestock, and farms and many of our local areas today...
74. Doll cabin
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Studio photograph of Bird Crawford (Hockett) and her brothers. "Birdie" came to the Gypsum valley as a small girl with her parents. In 1898, she married Addison L. Hockett, member of another pioneer family. They had four daughters: Myrtie Stephens, Mary Margaret Robichaud, Arta Pharo, and Lucy Ronchetti.
77. Gypsum locals
78. Elsie Elliott
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A photo of Elsie DaLee Elliott taken on May 15, 1909. Elsie DaLee was born in Red Cliff Sept. 12, 1891, daughter of Elizabeth DaLee and niece of Dora Griener. Elsie was educated in the Red Cliff schools and Mt. St. Scholastica Academy, Canon City. She married Joseph P. Elliott who died in 1928. They had four sons, Lee, Jack, George and Robert, and one daughter, Babe.