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"After the abandonment of the Pioneer Cottonwood school in 1911, another schoolhouse of log construction was built on Antelope Creek a mile or so west of Cottonwood. Ed Robinson donated the land and Arthur Panting, Phil Maxwell and Perry Ault donated the labor with an assist from Tom Wohler. Ault and Maxwell cut the logs for the building on King Mountain, but Panting, who was to do the skidding, had the misfortune to break a leg while doing that,...
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Students and teacher, Miss Patterson, in front of Spring Valley School, Gypsum. The log school building has six tall, paned windows providing light to the classroom.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Saint Marys Catholic Church in Eagle, Colorado, circa 1980. The church was originally the Eagle School at 215 Capitol St. Built in 1890, it was used as a school until 1916 when it was sold to the Catholic Church.
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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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Sixteen school children and their teacher lined up in front of the Avon School. School horse barn is visible in far right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"It still has the appearance of one, but hardly resembles the old Yarmony Creek log school that was built by volunteer labor in 1906, only the windows look the same. It served its purpose well until the one room schools were discontinued in favor of consolidated shcools in 1950. Homer and Ellen Reed made it into a home and lived here for many years before Mr. Reed's death in 1974. At this writing it is still Mrs. Reed's home." -- McCoy Memoirs,...
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"The Blacktail School near Radium, Colo., in 1909. Back Row: Dewey Leroux, Dora Mugrage, Jessie Cannon (teacher), Alonzo Hudson, Leon Leroux. In front: Andrew Henry, Laura Mugrage, Leander Hoyt, Ammi Hoyt." -- verso caption
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Back view of School section, Benton Ranch, built in 1904.
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Side view of the teacherage next to the Derby Mesa Schoolhouse, 1980. The then owner was using it as a tool shed.
10. Wolcott School
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Standing in front of the Wolcott School in 1918.
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A view from the road of the Avon School. The horse barn is at midground. A fence surrounds the school grounds.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Sweetwater School, known also as Middle Sweetwater School or Gannon School. The teacher was Myrtie Hockett (later, Mrs. James Stephens). Snow on ground and on the roof of the log school with a path visible in right foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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School section, Benton Ranch, built in 1904.
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"Yarmony Creek School, 1909. Ethel McCoy, Lucille Kibbler, Frank Groh and the teacher." -- McCoy Memoirs p.213
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1976, Gore Creek School, near Vail, which was in School District No. 11, Minturn [Outside].
The building was moved to Ford Park in Vail by Gore Creek Preservation Society.
16. Nottingham Barn
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Old barn just west of the Emmett Nottingham place. The barn was probably built by Clyde Nottingham around 1908. Beaver Creek is to the left. The old Avon School is just right of center. The first Avon bridge is visible in the foreground in front of the school (west of current bridges about 100 yards and lower to the water). The Joe Smith house is to the right.
This bridge was probably built in the early 1900s. It was replaced by the second...
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Lake Creek School, the first school in Edwards, Colorado. The log school building is in the background with two women on horseback outside the schoolyard fence. The woman on the right is riding side-saddle.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Back view of the teacherage at Derby Mesa Schoolhouse. There appears to have been additional structures or an addition to the building between 1933 and 1980 (extension in the leftside of the photograph). In 1980, the building was being used as a tool shed.
19. Avon School
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Five children lined up by the fence in front of the Avon School. Snow is on the ground. One boy holds a sled, another a pair of skis. Addition to the school is visible. Used on p. 54 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Original Avon School before addition, taken prior to 1915. The horse barn has not been built. Fence surrounding school yard visible. Shows the Eagle River on right with "water spruce" hanging over the river and Johnson Lane (named for homesteader Joe Johnson) that was the road into Bachelor Gulch. The road eventually became Highway 6, located about 300 yards west of the current Avon Road. View is to the west. This picture was hanging on the...