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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...
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Haber cabins built in 1939 at Copper Spur.
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"This attractive house on Yarmony Creek below Copper Spur, was built and occupied by Dr. J. H. Cole until his death in 1947. Since then, Roy and Jean Vawter, who was the Doctor's adopted daughter, have mad it their home." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 208 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Frances Noel house at 1620 Copper Spur Rd., built in 1913.
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Frances Noel house at 1620 Copper Spur Rd., built in 1904.
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"Telleen" built 1909; Copper Spur outside of McCoy.
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Frances Noel house at 1620 Copper Spur Rd., built in 1904. There is a porch on the front and additional structures on the back of the house. A stove is sitting in the yard.
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"Pioneer Doctor Cole moved from Yampa to Copper Spur about 1927 and he, his wife and daughter Jean lived in this house several years before building a home of their own at the spring below the town." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.208 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]