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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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"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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The Flogus house in McCoy. It was built in the 1940s using Civilian Conservation Corps labor.
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Bill Gates building constructed on Derby Mesa in 1929.
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Hauling logs on a sled using a two-horse team. "James P. Gates was a very good carpenter, and decided to build a stage coarch inn on their new land, which as a stop on the stage line between Kremmling and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. So the cutting and hauling of logs began. J.P. knew hoe to use a broad axe to shape the logs he used for building so that they fit together evenly and firmly." -- The Gates Genealogy
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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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Floyd and June Crawford house, built in 1881, in El Jebel.
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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.]
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Gene Grange place built in 1908, El Jebel.
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Five generations of women in one family, probably taken at the "Halfway House," once on the Fulford Ranch, about .5 mile north of the forks. 1. Elizabeth Halloran; 2. Sarah Jane Fulford; 3. Adelaide Morgan; 4. Nettie Peterson; 5. Lillian Peterson [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Anderson home, built in 1946 at 5444 Colorado River Road.
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Photo postcard of the Maxwell place, taken by John Ambos. "Among the very early pioneers of the area were Elliott and Mary Maxwell who located on 160 acres of land at the confluence of the Grand River and Elk Creek, about four miles west of McCoy about 1896. The elevation there was about 6,500 feet, the lowest in the area where most vegetables and some varieties of hardy fruits could be grown." -- McCoy Memoirs p.155 [Title supplied from catalog...
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"The former ranch house on Yarmony Creek, where Charley and Stella McCoy lived nearly thirty-five years and their daughters Ethel and Mildred were born in." -- McCoy Memoirs p.104 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Brett Homestead as it looked in October 1997. (Located near Edwards, Colorado)
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The Moorehead place on Sheephorn Creek, built in 1899. An automobile and unidentified man at left.
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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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"Although not at all in the McCoy area...the Van Camp house in Yampa, an early day stage stop and road house. Note the vegetation growing on the dirt floor [roof]." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.313 The I. D. Van Camp dwelling is circled by an antler fence. Plants (beans) are growing up string trellises. The sod roof is sporting vegetation. Yampa is in Routt County. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Nellie Abrams, daughter of Loyal Abrams, granddaughter of Mary Jennie Abrams, standing in front of log cabin
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Beaver near Eagle River. Lettuce shed and railroad siding in background. View is looking to the northeast at Swift Gulch from Emmett Nottingham's old place at Avon. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]