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21) Strubi house
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Strubi family dwelling in Burns built in 1953. Wire fence in foreground.
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"The ranch buildings on what later became the Black Mountain Ranch. When this picture was taken in 1935 [photo has both 1934 and 1936 written on it], it was a working ranch (with emphasis on work) and had about fifty acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland. Pioneers named the hill in the background Sawmill Mountain. Until 1915 the hill was a paradise for grouse and to see fifty or sixty in a flock was...
23) Sneve Ranch
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The William Johnson Ranch, formerly the Anthony Sneve Ranch on West Brush Creek. The patent on the ranch was established in 1911. The ranch was purchased by Edna Chambers in 1935. Chambers in turn sold the property to William S. and Nora Johnson in 1938. It is now the site for Sylvan Lake State Park. [A History of Sylvan Lake State Park, by Kathy Heicher]
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Lake Creek School, the first school in Edwards, Colorado. The log school building is in the background with two women on horseback outside the schoolyard fence. The woman on the right is riding side-saddle.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Barn and fencing near the old farmstead once owned by Gulling Offerson. Unpaved road with visible rocks in foreground. Buck Creek is in the background and Swift Gulch is at far right. The site is just up the hill from the Avon general store.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Formerly Dan Koprinikar's home in Edwards, suspected to be the pre-1898 residence of the John Howard family. Woman and girl in front of house may be Mrs. Howard and Ethel. Bicycle on porch. Hay stacks in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
29) McCoy lane
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"The McCoy lane looking west. This 1912 photo [says 1911 on verso of photo] shows the front part of the Hotel on the left, [on the right] the blacksmith shop, the big red barn and the front of the old log barn and beyond it, the bridge across Rock Creek. The big barn, approximately fifty by sixty feet in size, was of frame construction and built by C. H. McCoy in 1902. It had stalls for twenty horses and a loft that held ten tons of loose hay....
31) 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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Original Avon School before addition, taken prior to 1915. The horse barn has not been built. Fence surrounding school yard visible. Shows the Eagle River on right with "water spruce" hanging over the river and Johnson Lane (named for homesteader Joe Johnson) that was the road into Bachelor Gulch. The road eventually became Highway 6, located about 300 yards west of the current Avon Road. View is to the west. This picture was hanging on the...
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The house was built in 1880-90's. It was moved from Keystone mines near Oak Creek in 1944 to the Leonard Horn Ranch. The house was sawed in half to get accross the frozen Colorado River at State Bridge in order to make the move. There is a barbed wire fence in the foreground and a rug airing on the porch rail.
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Brush Creek Valley, 1916. Two groups of buildings, fenced pasture and Brush Creek visible with Bellyache Mountain in the background.
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Monica Barnes, holding deer carcass, with Boyd at left and Darrell at right. The dog is interested.
They're at the homestead cabin on Castle.
The rules of the homestead act required fence around the property and other improvements.
"The fence was built totally by Guy Barnes. Every post hole was dug by hand, every fence post was sawed or chopped from trees on the land and barbed wire (usually four strands) was strung on every fence post. Wooden...
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Cabin on the Crawford place, built in 1932, in El Jebel.
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Myret Beal's husband, Biz, holding the hand of Jim Powell (son of Maxine King Powell) in Red Cliff. The small log cabin behind the pair is the first cabin built in Red Cliff by Wm. Greiner and G. J. DaLee in 1879. This cabin was later occupied by Jack Elliott in the 1940s.
