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Austin Offerson and dog, standing in front of wire fence. Inscription reads, "our cow hand."
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2) Avon Bridge
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View of the old Avon Bridge looking south toward Beaver Creek. The Avon "gyp cliffs" are a prominent landmark. This is the second bridge to span the Eagle River at Avon, built around 1923. Inscription: "Avon bridge."
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3) Avon School
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A group of visiting mothers, preschoolers, and a few students, standing on the porch of the Avon School. Carol Nottingham (future Whitney) is standing at the far left. Marie Nottingham is standing just behind the tallest boy. Hilma Gustafson (?) stands at far right. Playground equipment is visible in right background.
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4) Avon School
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The Avon School after the addition. The front was extended and the belfry was added. The addition to the back has not yet been done which dates the photo as 1920-21. A group of students is seated at the side of the building.
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5) Avon School
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Five children lined up by the fence in front of the Avon School. Snow is on the ground. One boy holds a sled, another a pair of skis. Addition to the school is visible. Used on p. 54 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
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Barn and coal shed at the Avon School, looking northeast to Buck Creek. Barn fencing and some logs in right foreground.
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Avon School students, lined up at the school.
George Cunningham (boy on left rear)
Josie Cunningham (1st girl from left)
Marie Cole (later Mrs. Harry Nottingham) next to Josie
Roy Cunningham (2d from left, 2d row)
Elmer Cole (right front row)
Laura Fleck (2d from right, back row)
Helen Fleck (front row, next to little boy in blur
Elizabeth O'Neil (far right, back row)
Anna O'Neil (next to Marie)
Agnes O'Neil (next to Roy Cunningham)
Margaret O'Neil...
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School children lined up in front of the Avon School, circa 1918
From left to right: Claire Nottingham (future Lundgren); Edna Pyeatt (storekeeper's daughter); Hilda Everett (later killed in trainwreck); Agnes Holden; Lois Welch; Winifred Nottingham (future Mason); Miss Marie Schmidt; Maybelle Robertson; Billy Robertson; Cleara Pyeatt.
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Avon, looking north-northeast with the Avon Store and Offerson place in midground. The "Gyp Cliffs" to the right and Buck Creek in the top background. Photo taken from Beaver Creek's Strawberry Park.
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Beaver near Eagle River. Lettuce shed and railroad siding in background. View is looking to the northeast at Swift Gulch from Emmett Nottingham's old place at Avon.
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W. R. (Bill) Robertson and sister, Maybelle, at the Avon Depot (circa 1930s).
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Bivans' ledger, Avon Store, spine and front cover.
"In the town of Avon, at the mouth of Beaver Creek, Stephen Bivans kept a store in a single-story log building. When Bivans left for Utah in 1908 Charles and Esther Adams, from Pennsylvania, arrived to take over the business." -- Beaver Creek by June Simonton, p. 44.
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Standing on a rock, Earl Stroud fishes on the Eagle River, near Avon Colorado. He is wearing knickers and hat, holding the fishing pole in his right hand.
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14) Earlene Bivans
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Earlene Bivans riding a mule. Photo postcard postmarked Avon, Colorado June 1907. Inscription: "Earlene has taken to riding broncos for pastime. Effa"
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Ed Rodgers and Stanley Gustafson with "dudes" from Texas getting ready for an outing. All the men are mounted on horses with a pack horse at the far left.
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Ed Rodgers, Chester Tolbey and Bill Robertson leaving for a fishing trip on the Piney. The men are mounted on horses with a pack horse in front of Tolbey. A dog is visible in left midground, behind Rodgers. Photo was taken near Emmett Nottingham's place and looks southwest toward Wayne Creek (Beaver Creek). Bachelor Gulch is to the far right. The blacksmith shop is on the far right, on its original site.
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Elizabeth Holden, seated on horse, holding the infant Peggy Mulnix (Anna's daughter) in front of her in the saddle. Barn in Background.
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18) Everett Howard
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Everett Howard holding the reins of his horse team (Don and Chubb, as identified by Mamie Rodgers) while standing on timber sled. The sled is empty. Caption reads "after unloading logs at depot." Snow on the ground.
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Everett Howard's mother-in-law and his sister, Virgie, standing in front of a building. A crate of some sort is visible. The women are dressed for fieldwork, wearing overalls, hats, boots and gloves.
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Everett and Mildred Howard standing outside. Mildred is wearing a coat and hat.
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