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21) Castle Peak
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A view of Castle Peak taken by Bill Heicher on March 8, 2015. John Jodire of Gypsum noted the sloughing of the easternmost [far right] turret of Castle Peak. Bill Heicher took the confirming photograph.
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Log homestead on the west side of Castle Peak, Eagle County. Owned by Palmroy (or Palmory...conflict in sources) and no longer in existence.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Castle Peak Ranger Station with station buildings and trucks. This was later used as a cow camp.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Castle Peak fire lookout cabin, Holy Cross National Forest, District C, with two rangers looking over the guard rail. [Photo numbered 35033A]
In September 1913, forest rangers completed a trail from the ranger station on Eby Creek to the top of Castle Peak. “Besides the grand view of the surrounding mountains to be obtained from the top, there is a telephone on top, placed there by the rangers so that you can talk to your friends in Eagle,...
25) Homestead cabin
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Last of the homesteader's cabins, northwest side of Castle Peak, taken in 1988.
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"Forest Officers at Castle lookout, Eagle Dist., Holy Cross N. F. Aug. 1913." [Photo numbered 16712A]
In September 1913, forest rangers completed a trail from the ranger station on Eby Creek to the top of Castle Peak. “Besides the grand view of the surrounding mountains to be obtained from the top, there is a telephone on top, placed there by the rangers so that you can talk to your friends in Eagle, or any part of the state, while you stand...
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Monica Barnes hold the reins to the family work horses with Boyd Barnes standing in front of her.
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Guy Barnes holding Boyd on the back of a sheep in front of the barn on the Castle homestead. Eventually, Barnes got rid of his cattle and sheep herds and leased the pastures to others. To supplement his income, he worked for Holy Cross Electric and worked on the construction of Highway 6 & 24.
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Guy Barnes hauling hay with a team of horses and wagon.
"Guy Barnes was hired as a herdsman by a man named Andrew Christiansen. Mr. Christiansen raised Hereford cattle and needed someone to help with caring for the cattle. Mr. Barnes cared for the cattle on Mr. Christiansen's land in town during the Winter but during the late Spring, Summer and early Fall, Barne's job took him to Mr. Christiansen's cattle on pasture eleven miles North of town."...
31) Castle Peak
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A view of Castle Peak, north of Eagle, Colorado, with constructed station in place.
32) Ebert Ranch
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Looking toward Castle from Black Mountain Ranch on Conger Mesa, facing southwest. Ebert Ranch is visible at midground. Alternate descriptions of this photograph date it to 1925.
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Grave "two tenths of a mile up the road to the John Benton house, on the right just off the road. Natural stone faces 'Castle' [peak]. No one seems to know who is buried here." -- Mildred Toomer
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Another view of the gravesite facing Castle Peak near the Benton house, Burns, Colorado.
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The front of the cabin at Four Mile with children in the snow.
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Darrell, Boyd and Monica Barnes, with the family dog, standing in the yard of the larger cabin at Four Mile.
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Darrell, Boyd and Phyllis Barnes at their Eby Creek cabin in 1926.
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Darrell, Guy and Boyd Barnes, standing at the doorway of the large cabin at Four Mile (four miles up Eby Creek, toward Castle).
The smaller cabin ..."was built from aspen wood logs and was really small. The roof on this cabin was made of dirt and the family garden was grown on the roof of the little cabin. Phyllis Barnes [Johnson] was born in this cabin one year pretty close to Christmas. ... Guy Barnes cleared more land and built a much larger...
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Nicholas E. Buchholz's cabin, located near Castle Peak. Date unknown.
40) Castle Peak
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A view of Castle Peak covered in snow. Castle Peak is located near Eagle.
