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Looking north on what is now 2nd street in Eagle, dated 1919. Utility poles are either side. A car is parked under a tree at right and on the left is the post office.
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Ardith Sheets stands in front of the McCoy Post Office in July of 1960. A dog can be seen in front of the door.
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A view of Broadway St. in Eagle, taken at the intersection with 3rd St., looking north. There is a streetlight post in the middle of the intersection with "Keep Right" written at the base. Castle Peak is on the horizon. A directional sign to U.S. Highway 24 is at the right at midground
On the left, the Dice building [2 story brick] is the closest building on 2d St. At the northern end, the Koonce Chevrolet...
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1910-1920: Looking northeast, Broadway Street. Front of E. E. Glenn & Co. General Merchandise clearly visible; Post Office sign on side of building. People (dressed as if for special event) gathered in front of store with wagons and horses.
The bay windowed house to the right of the E. E. Glenn & Co. building was occupied by Alex Macdonell and family beginning in 1951. Mr. Macdonell was working for Holy Cross Electric out of Glenwood Springs...
5) Burns
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A postcard print view of the Grand (now Colorado) River at Burns, or Burns Hole, around 1915. The old post office is visible on the right.
6) Camp Tigiwon
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Caption: "Camp Tigiwon alt. 10,000 ft. Pilgrimage to the Nount of the Holy Cross. V. T. Brown photo, Denver, Colo."
47 "pilgrims," most on horseback, posing in front of the Camp Tigiwon post office. The Post office was established June 5, 1929 and discontinued September 30, 1942 [from Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989, by Bauer, Osment and Willard, 1990].
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Pilgrims gathered around a campfire at the Tigiwon Post Office, sometime between 1929 and 1934.
Caption by O. W. Randall: "These were times when we had no Community House."
The Tigiwon Post Office was established June 5, 1929. "By 1934 the U.S. Forest Service had built the long-awaited trail up Notch Mountain, first used by the seventh pilgrimage that year. A lodge [Community House] at Tigiwon was also completed by 1934." -- Robert Brown, Holy Cross--the...
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Pilgrims gathered around a campfire at the Tigiwon Post Office, sometime between 1929 and 1934. Dr. Randall is seated facing the camera at far right.
Caption by O. W. Randall: "21. Campfire at night, Tigiwon."
The Tigiwon Post Office was established June 5, 1929. "By 1934 the U.S. Forest Service had built the long-awaited trail up Notch Mountain, first used by the seventh pilgrimage that year. A lodge [Community House] at Tigiwon was also completed...
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The Carlson IGA Store and the Basalt Post Office, located about midblock of main street (Railroad Avenue) Basalt. A public water fountain is located between the two buildings.
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"This building, as it appears today [1974], became the Copper Spur store and Post Office after the Wymans left, Frank Bedell as Post Master and store proprietor. The Bedell family lived here until Frank's death in 1956." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 149
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"There were many small post offices in Colorado in the horse and buggy days for the simple reason that travel was slow. A post office was established at Copper Spur on Yarmony Creek four miles southeast of McCoy in 1920 and named Coppertown with Ed Lindvold as the postmaster. About 1922 Lindvold disappeared with the post office funds and Kenneth Wyman was appointed to succeed him. ... In 1928 the Post Office was re-named Copper Spur which name it...
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Crane at Gilman power plant moving transformers. The building in the left background housed the post office, mercantile, and grocery store.
15) Downtown Eagle
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A photograph of Broadway Street in Eagle, Colorado. Buildings and businesses line the street, including the E.E. Glenn store. Glenn's was located at the corner of 2nd and Broadway at the time and was also the post office. Eagle Valley Enterprise offices were located across the street from Glenn's. People are gathered on horseback and/or in wagons.
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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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The U.S. Post Office in Minturn. Ethel (Boies) and Howard G. Bayer may be the couple at center, facing the street. Another group at left is examining something on a table.
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U.S. Post Office, Eagle Colorado, 81631. Photo developed December 1962.
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Four men and a dog on the boardwalk in front of the Edwards Store and Post Office. Two of the men, seated on crates, are playing a board game. Appears to be spring or summer.
(Note on photo description: Burnison or Brooks)
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Dice Brothers completed this building in 1912. It was the third brick building erected in Eagle. The First National Bank of Eagle immediately moved in to the north part. The Hugus Mercantile Store occupied the first floor on the south side (this was later occupied as the H. W. Lewis Store). The upstairs was used as the Masonic Hall. The first Post Office on Broadway was in a narrow annex to the Bank [1920]. -- John W. Bronn, Eagle County Historical...
