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1908-1910: Denver & Rio Grande Railroad section crew with hand-car in front of the Avon Depot (also a residence of William Finley Cole and family). Five men are standing on the hand-car, one is standing on track in front of the car. From l. to r.: Mike Kelly, Jack Wellington, Dow Hancock. Some snow is on the ground.
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22) Offerson Family
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Olive, Austin and Gulling Offerson standing in the yard by a house. Austin, standing in the middle, has his arms resting on his parents' shoulders.
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Students of the Avon School, posed on the grass in front of the school barn (fences visible). They are laying on their stomachs in a row, upraised on elbows, facing the camera. A woman stands behind them on the right.
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Schoolchildren standing in front of the Avon School. School barn is in the right background.
Jimmy Holden is in front. Virgie Howard is on far left. Maybelle Robertson is in front of Virgie.
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Mildred Bailey wearing riding attire, seated on Dot the horse. They are standing on either the Kroelling or Avon Bridge over the Eagle River. Buildings in background. Used on p. 53 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
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Mabel Thomas (l.) and her mother, Mary Thomas, standing in front of log house.
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Sixteen school children and their teacher lined up in front of the Avon School. School horse barn is visible in far right background.
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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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Studio photograph of Mort Johnson and Earl Litton.
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Bill (W. R>) Robertson and Jim Neely at Hanging Lake Trailhead, Glenwood Canyon. The young men are standing by Rene Estes' automobile
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31) Avon STOLport
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Series of three shots from the same spot, showing a Rocky Mountain Airways airplane landing at the Avon STOLport.
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Western Colorado: Avon STOLport [short take-off and landing airport], 2004: "The date of construction of this field is unknown.
It was apparently built at some point between 1963-82, as it was not depicted on the October 1963 Sangre De Christo Mountains World Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of Donald...
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Blanch Adams standing on a rock next to the Offerson's home. She is dressed up for the occasion. Inscription reads, "our school teacher."
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33) J. D. Smith
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J. D. Smith, who worked for the Howards. Referred to lovingly as "the boss who started the dirty work," for his introduction of Everett and Mildred. J. D. is standing in a field with a piece of paper in his hand. He is wearing overalls and a hat.
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34) Gypsum cliffs
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A view of the gypsum cliffs with the Fleck Ditch flume in foreground and the road running below the ditch.
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35) W. E. Nottingham
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1923: William Emmett Nottingham, born in Gilman (Belles Camp), 1893, youngest son of William H. Nottingham. In 1923, he was an up-and-coming rancher at Avon; he remained a rancher his entire life.
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Family grouping on house porch. Dogs visible in foreground.
Back row: George Clyde Nottingham, Lola (his daughter), Bill Sweeney (son-in-law), Roland Nottingham, Grandma Hurd, Emmett Nottingham
Middle row: Lou Nottingham Sweeney, Marie (Mrs. Harry) Nottingham, Frances (Mrs. Emmett) Nottingham, Myrtle (Mrs. Clyde) Nottingham, Harry Nottingham
Front row: Leota (daughter of Clyde), Winifred, Claire, Willis, "Uncle Ed" Sweeney
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A view from the road of the Avon School. The horse barn is at midground. A fence surrounds the school grounds.
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38) Avon School
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The Avon School with front and rear additions. Visible to the northeast are the playground (with slide) and horse barn. These were torn down in about 1948 to widen Highway 6. Some snow on ridge in background.
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Kroelling's house about 1/2 mile west of Avon. Metcalf Gulch is in the background. Highway 6 is in the foreground. Bridge over the Eagle River is in right foreground. Note belfry on house. The house and all the outbuildings were replaced by the Sunridge Condominiums.
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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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