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41. Buerger Place
43. Benson's cabin
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Alfred Benson’s property on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. Originally, there were several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site. This was not Benson's main cabin or barn. The main cabin interior walls had been smoothed with an adz or a broad-axe and these are not smooth. The structure is too small to be the barn. This photo was taken on July 26, 2012.
45. Wolcott
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"This building, as it appears today [1974], became the Copper Spur store and Post Office after the Wymans left, Frank Bedell as Post Master and store proprietor. The Bedell family lived here until Frank's death in 1956." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 149
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"There were many small post offices in Colorado in the horse and buggy days for the simple reason that travel was slow. A post office was established at Copper Spur on Yarmony Creek four miles southeast of McCoy in 1920 and named Coppertown with Ed Lindvold as the postmaster. About 1922 Lindvold disappeared with the post office funds and Kenneth Wyman was appointed to succeed him. ... In 1928 the Post Office was re-named Copper Spur which name it...
55. Grimes cabin
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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.
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