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1. Owens Store
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Man and girl standing on the boardwalk under the roof overhang of the Owens Store (the original Avon Store) in Avon, Colorado. Advertising signs: "Hills Bros. Coffee," chocolates, visible. Screen door is open; front door closed. Could be either snowing or raining. The store was located 100 feet west of the Avon Road on the north side of Highway 6. It was relocated and restored to the Eagle museum center in 1996. Date is noted as Oct. 15, 1928.
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2. Main Street
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Photo postcard of the Gypsum Hotel (formerly the Skiff Hotel) after the fire in 1912.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, Feb. 9, 1912, p.1: GYPSUM TOWN HAS BIG FIRE. Early Sunday Morning Blaze Destoys Three Buildings and Portion of Contents.
The most disastrous fire in the history of Gypsum or Eagle county took place in that town last Sunday morning at four o'clock, and before the fire was discovered it gained such headway that every effort to quench the flames...
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The E. E. Glenn & Co. General Merchandise store on Broadway in Eagle. The Post Office was also located in the building. There are boardwalks around the building. A dozen men and two children are standing in front of the store.
"Ed Glenn was first attracted to this county by the mining camp at Fulford when that camp was at the boom stage, and later married Mrs. Belding who owned the store located on the site in the same building now occupied by...
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Main Street in Red Cliff (possibly 1892-1907), storefronts visible for bakery and restaurant, general mercantile ("boots and shoes made to order") and Quartzite Hotel. A wagon and horse team are parked in left foreground. The street is not paved and appears to be muddy.
"The Quartzite Hotel (sign atop building behind the flag pole on the right) was run, and presumably, owned by the William Greiners for several years between 1900 and 1910. This...
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1st Street, Gypsum, looking north. J. P. Oleson's store is at left with men standing on the boardwalk in front of it. Continuing down the street are the Gypsum Bank, the Staup Hotel (which was later the Traveler's Hotel), the pool hall and at the end of the street, the Gypsum Depot. -- John Flynn, Jr., letter of Dec. 20, 1995
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]