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1) Horn Ranch
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"The Horn ranch house on Rock Creek, two and one half miles above McCoy, as it was in 1917. Homesteaders Alvin Hart and Rooks built the cabin with the fireplace, the rest was added on by the Horns. The low building on the right was the kitchen, the two story addition had two bedrooms upstairs and the ground floor was the living room, the fireplace room served as a bunkhouse for ranch hands. Shortly after Arthur Horn's death, Mrs. Horn had that...
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Bud Gates house on Derby Mesa Loop built in 1940; gabled dormer windows on second floor.
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"Among the last to homestead on the Conger Mesa, Martin Schomers built the back part of this house in 1913, the same year that he and Pauline Johnson were married. They spent a part of their honeymoon here and during the ensuing years their three children were born. Others who lived here for short periods were Leonard and Maude Hudson and their two children; Helen and Darrell Ray; and Art and Helen Hudson and family. For many years, rats have been...
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Catherine "Katie" Lemley Gates and J. P. Gates with their grandchildren. From left, Katie Gates is holding Albert, Ruth, James P. Gates is holding Mary. In front, James and Frank Gates.
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"Always referred to as the Harris house, it has had considerable face lifting since the large Harris family occupied it for twenty eight years or from 1917 to 1945. Quite a number of people lived here before and since the Harrises. Earlier residents were the Towers, Porters and Robinsons." -- McCoy Memoirs p.173
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The former ranch house on Yarmony Creek, where Charley and Stella McCoy lived nearly thirty-five years and their daughters Ethel and Mildred were born in." -- McCoy Memoirs p.104
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"The former Gus Hoyt house near Radium, 1917. The children were all born before this was built in 1917." -- McCoy Memoirs p.201
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"This house on the former Adam Stifel ranch isn't quite the same as it was when they homesteaded six miles west of McCoy [Antelope area] shortly after 1900. At that time it was a one room cabin with a dirt roof, but shortly after Reuben was born the two story building was added on and later the lean-to on the east side." -- McCoy Memoirs p.163
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"This was once the home of Elliott Maxwell and wife until Perry Ault bought the place in 1908. He and his wife Lelah and their family of ten lived here until the children were grown, married and had homes of their own. Mr. and Mrs. Ault retired from active farming about 1950 and leased the ranch to their son-in-law, Walter Evans, before buying a house in Kremmling and moving there." -- McCoy Memoirs p.160
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The Sam and Betty Carter home at Carterville at Squaw Creek. The house was built in the 1950s.
"When Sam and Russell grew up, they fell in love with the Terry sisters, Betty and Wanda, who had lived at both Squaw and Lake Creeks. After their marriages, the four built cabins at Carterville and raised another generation of Carter children" -- June Simonton, The First Pioneers: a Squaw Creek History, p. 27
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"The Panting house and family in 1923: Emma, Florence, Mr. and Mrs. Panting, Myrtle, the four younger children in front are: Harry, Ruth, Mabel and Jim. The home of the Panting family for approximately thirty years, it was recently razed by Mr. Dudy who made use of the salvaged material. The lower floor of the house was probably built by Merritt Rhodes but the Pantings added on the upper story. The original Buffington Homestead cabin located in...
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The front of the Arthur Panting ranch house at McCoy with children sitting on the front step.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
13) Payne house
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"This house near Bond was the home of John and Mary Payne and family for eight years and during six of those years it was a meal stop for hungry travelers on the main road between State Bridge and McCoy where meals were to be had for twenty-five cents." -- McCoy Memoirs p.140
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Shortly after they were married, Jack and Martha Sigler came out from Denver and homesteaded land in the Volcano area. Their first abode was a cellar or dug-out at an abandoned railroad construction camp, but later they buit this house north of Volcano, one section at a time. Like many other homesteaders, their lives were much too short to see their dreams fulfilled." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 304
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15) Kibbler place
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"House on the former Kibbler place on the Grand River. There have been a number of changes made in its desgn since Sam built it in 1908, but otherise it is about the same. Occupants after Kibblers were the Hugh Norman family, Harry and Jessie Groh, Donothans and, presently, the Settlemeyers." -- McCoy Memoirs p.138
Date conflicts with the date in 1992.004C.086
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
17) Rundell Family
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Clarence and Phoebe French Rundell with children, Ernest and Helen. They are seated outside the house on the Sheephorn Creek ranch.
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Lou Clark (Layman), approximately 15 years old, on horse, Daisy, in front of the Clark house. The log house at the foot of Squaw Creek was the Clark home from late 1945 until 1953.
