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121. Shoe shop
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A tent building in Dotsero used as a shoe shop for railroad construction workers. The photo was printed on April 2, 1933.
122. Forest Hotel
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The Forest Hotel on Wall St., between 3rd and 4th Streets, Eagle. On the veranda from left: John Forest, Art Tandy, Mrs. Forest.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Front of the Sloss's grocery store: two story brick building with prominent sign. "The old County Road was beginning to be used as a business section. Bill Tierney put up a brick store building on this road, and was in the grocery business until 1904, when William Frey took it over and ran it until 1905. After that, he moved back down on Railroad Avenue. Next., Mr. J. F. Sloss and Son took over the store and ran it until 1928. From that time...
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"Bert Wolverton and Art Koonce were partners in this ranch located immediately north of Eagle in the vicinity of what is now the Interstate 70 interchange. The ranch was eventually sold to Ross Chambers. This view is looking east with Red Point in the background. The barn in the photograph has since been moved to Chambers Park in Eagle, where it serves as the Eagle County Historical Society Museum. The interstate highway now runs through what would...
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"After a 1933 fire destroyed several downtown buildings, the next business to build in that space was the Independent Lumber Company. The lumber company moved to Chambers Avenue (Across the Eagle River) in the early 1980s. The Eagle Town Hall is now located on the corner where this building once stood." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.110
126. Early Gypsum
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Josh Rabedew, back center, standing in the streets of Gilman surrounded by piles of snow. Tunnels to the post office are to the left of Josh. Photo taken c1899. L. K. Fleck's store in back of post office.
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Photo postcard, handcolored, 15797: Bridge over the Colorado River on the Dotsero Cutoff.
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"'The Pagodas' in Red Canon, Colorado River. The Dotsero Cutoff, 38.1 miles long, is the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's latest construction, connecting Dotsero, 17 miles east of Glenwood Springs, with Orestod, on the Moffat Road. This reduces the distance 175 miles from Denver to Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and beyond. Ceremonies...
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Marilla Reynolds (McCain) and Evelyn Buchholz perched on top of an Eagle downtown business.
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
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Summer Range, Johnson Brothers Ranch, Edd Johnson
Inscription on photo postcard: "Who is Edd? Your brother? What a beautiful scene. The cattle remind me of my Harveys. He had a small heard of these cattle. F. J. Morse"
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A closer look at the barn at H. K. Brooks' Castle Peak Ranch. The cattle are eating at feeders at mid-field.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Castle Peak ranch (Bar X) in Eagle.
Before Brooks, the ranch was sold by John Carey in September...
133. Cafe
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Restaurant in Eagle owned by Virginia Ann Burk Beam Alvord, who is standing to the right. Standing left is Bessie Beam Luby, standing center is Ann Alvord and seated between the two ladies is Florence Alvord.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
134. Odd Fellows Lodge
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The Odd Fellows Lodge was built on 2d Street in 1900. "The first story was used for a grocery store. It was run by John Miller and Mac Millan at first. It changed hands many times. Dan Dentor, Mr. Lucker, A. F. Carlson, and Don Lupton were some of the proprietors that had charge of it. It finally was made over into a dance hall which it is now." -- History of Eagle County, 1940, p. 242
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Underground machine shop at the Gilman Mine with Carl Garner (l) and Gus Peterson.
136. E. E. Glenn Store
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From left, Tom Dice, Andrew Christensen, John Love, and Ed Glenn in front of the E. E. Glenn Store, at the corner of 2nd and Broadway, Eagle, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Taken August 2, 2011, debris from hotel deconstruction is on the ground.
Deconstruction of the Nogal-Ping hotel and cabins in Eagle by Claude DeGraw began in 2010. Nogal's Hotel, built in 1892, was later purchased by the O. A. Ping family in 1923. It was occupied by siblings Leonard and Garnet Ping most recently. Leonard died in 1988 and Garnet moved to Gypsum in the late 1990s, passing away in 2003. It stands at the corner of Hwy 24 and Capitol...
138. Nogal-Ping Hotel
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The Nogal-Ping Hotel at the corner of Capitol Street and Highway 6, showing the cabins added by the Pings.
"Otis and Minnie Ping bought the Nogal Hotel in 1923. The Pings expanded the commercial operation by adding two wings out back and several detached motel units. Minnie Ping was an ambitious businesswoman, and Otis was the handyman who did the work. The Pings eventually installed a gas station, featuring a glass-bubble pump. Their son Leonard...
139. The Wymans
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Postmaster Kenneth Wyman standing next to his so, Leonard, and wife, Doris, at the Coppertown Post Office and store in 1925. The name was changed to Copper Spur in 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"About 1922 Lawrence Davis built this house at Volcano railroad siding, at a time when there were a number of railroad men and a few homesteaders living in that area. Davis became Postmaster of the Hydrate Post Office that had been established in 1920 and held that position until the post office was discontinued in 1938 for lack of patrons. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Davis, their daughter, Nellie Seaman, and her son, Vernon, made it their home to some...