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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...
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Jane and Joe Dice sitting on the front step of Melissa Larsen Tresize' log cabin (across from Lower Brush Creek School). This is the location of School House Ranch today (2007). Both children wear hats.
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Bill Gates building constructed behind the main house in 1913 on Derby Mesa.
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Mabel Colerick at the back door of "Mabel's Madhouse" that Dick Turgeon built for her after the 1949 fire. Early 1950's. The temporary "step" nailed on the roof boards indicates that some roof construction was still in progress. -- Rich Perske Aug. 2014
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Three men and a woman standing on the porch of a log cabin. Dog in foreground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"I think it would be best to label this as 'homestead on Hernage Creek' rather than 'Hernage Homestead.' I checked the patent records and they do not indicate that Henry Hernage homesteaded this specific parcel. Rather, he homesteaded clser to the mouth of Brush Creek. ... Location: T5S R84W Sec. 21, NW1/4 SW1/4 A patent search indicated the earliest record on this property is a homestead claim by Issac Kalbaugh on 160 acres in 1912. However,...
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The Schlegel family standing in front of the cabin on the Piney. Left to right: Phoebe Haney McKinney, Violet Schlegel, Ruth Schlegel, Wesley Schlegel, Phoebe Elvira McKinney Schlegel holding Clarence Schlegel.
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"Judge Lyle named his four guest cabins after Conger Mesa pioneers. This one is the Conger, others are the Theisen, Butler and Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 251 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Cabin at the Mewthing place on Sheephorn Creek, built in 1914.
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Cabin on Sweetwater Road.
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Deep Lake Ranger Station on the Flat Tops (White River National Forest, Garfield County). Log buildings and corral visible with outhouse further up the hill. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Warren Henry family standing in front of their cabin on Henry Creek. From left: Mary, Florence, Warren and Ruth Henry. There are antlers piled between Florence and Warren. The cabin has a sod roof. "Warren Henry and his brother, Bill, were familiar figures around McCoy during the early days of the 1900's. They were both Daddy McCoy's ranchhands and also did freighting between Wolcott and Yampa. Both brothers homesteaded on Blacktail Creek."...
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Emma Edwards standing in front of the homestead cabin in winter. Emma wrote in little Joe's [Joseph Klyde Edwards] baby book, 1925: "When you were 5 months old we were going over to your Grandma Millers in the sleigh. One runner ran up on the bank and the other in the soft snow making the sleigh tip over on its side and threw you and me out in the snowdrift. You were asleep and never even woke up." -- Esther Rogers, March 3, 2013
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The Bill Babcock homestead cabin, built in 1912, Yarmony Park. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Brunel Ranch house built in 1941, across the Colorado River from the mouth of Red Dirt Creek.
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Grant Deeble, on left holding rifle, standing next to another hunter (named Baker). In front of them is a bear carcass, draped on a sawhorse. Automobile and cabin in background.
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Min Hockett Borah, in dress and hat, standing on the porch of her log house at Deep Lake. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Across the railroad tracks at Twin Bridges, Colorado River Road.
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Brunel Ranch cabin (north Ranch) with Poison Creek access. Caption on verso: "Colter place."
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Olsen dwelling built in 1919 south of State Bridge.