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41. Tennessee Pass
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Continuing west on Highway 24 would take you to Minturn. Continuing east would take you to Gilman and Red Cliff. Photo taken by Tom Knight. Tom worked at Gilman as a watchman.
Verso: "Looking west down Eagle River. You can see I'm on top of the world. This shows the S curve on the O. to O. [Ocean to Ocean] Highway. We go to work tonight. Don't know what doing." [written by Tom Knight]
"Old highway on Battle Mountain" BJS
43. Eagle, Colorado
44. Creating a road
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Photo labeled 281260; verso stamp 4400
A man driving a tractor is cutting a road through trees. Stacked logs are at left.
In 1927, Dr. Randall led Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls up Notch Mountain to see the cross, a trip considered to be the first "pilgrimage." In 1928, another pilgrimage took place and in 1929, President Hoover established the Mount of the Holy Cross Monument.
"All these pilgrimages continued to demonstrate the need for a better...
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"Eagle County Road overseer Ammi Hoyt and maintainer on Sheephorn Creek in 1961. Ammi had never expected to be in the movies, but on this day a motion picture company was photographing the snow plowing operation." -- McCoy Memoirs p.200
Pettibone Mulliken is a manufacturer of heavy equipment from 1880 to recent times.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
48. McCoy lane
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"The McCoy lane looking west. This 1912 photo [says 1911 on verso of photo] shows the front part of the Hotel on the left, [on the right] the blacksmith shop, the big red barn and the front of the old log barn and beyond it, the bridge across Rock Creek. The big barn, approximately fifty by sixty feet in size, was of frame construction and built by C. H. McCoy in 1902. It had stalls for twenty horses and a loft that held ten tons of loose hay....
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Photo labeled 283450; verso stamp 4400
Fir bough shelters with tethering facilities for horses. Possibly used by road building crew or Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrims.
In 1927, Dr. Randall led Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls up Notch Mountain to see the cross, a trip considered to be the first "pilgrimage." In 1928, another pilgrimage took place and in 1929, President Hoover established the Mount of the Holy Cross Monument.
"All these pilgrimages...
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The east entrance to Glenwood Canyon in the 1930s. The road was not paved and was very close to the Colorado River which carved the canyon. The road connects Dotsero and Eagle County to Glenwood Springs and Garfield County, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
54. Gilman housing
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Housing for workers at the Gilman Mine is shown in the center of the photograph. The Lanning family lived in the center of the top row of houses, just below Hwy 24, which curves into the background. Water tanks are visible adjacent to Hwy 24.
56. Homestake Roads
59. Road Maintenance
60. Kent location
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Newspaper article showing the estimated location of what was formerly Kent. Milk Creek drainage is to the left of I-70 [3/4 mile west of the Wolcott exit on I-70; Milk Creek comes into the Eagle River at the bridge]. The 4 pines on the opposite hillside remain.
The Old Watson Road labeled in this photograph refers to George Watson, a cattle rancher.
"The Watsons also bought the old Sherwood [Kent] ranch near Wolcott from John Morris, and owned...