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c.1930: Dad Wellington (in hat) standing at barbed wire fence. Mule hitched to wagon; reins hitched to fence post. Postmaster D. C. Thomas, Edwards, CO, sitting in wagon.
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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
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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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Post office at Tigiwon, Colorado. Located on the way to Notch Mountain trail, it was used to postmark letters for people on pilgrimage to view the Mt. of the Holy Cross. 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].
There are several people standing next to an automobile and a camper with bedroll standing in front of the log building.
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5) The Wymans
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Studio portrait of Doris and Kenneth Wyman with their son, Leonard. Kenneth Wyman was Postmaster from 1922 to 1936. The Post Office name was changed from Coppertown to Copper Spur in 1928.
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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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"At the time the mail route was still run by way of the McCoy ferry, Whipple purchased two Concord stages from a mail contractor in Oklahoma. The double-decker coaches were slung on heavy leather straps instead of strings. They could carry fifteen to twenty passengers as the above picture shows. The stage route came into being from Wolcott in 1887 and continued to operate for the next twenty years or more." -- The Gates Genealogy
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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)
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The Mayor of Copper Spur, three women, two girls and a man standing in front of a gas pump at the post office/store. Signs on building. Appears to be a warm time of year.
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The U.S. Post Office in Eagle Colorado, barbershop and drug store. They are located in the Dice Building, built in 1904, on the west side of Broadway. There is an automobile parked on the street and some men are sitting on the stairs at the far left.
From the collection of Robert Thomas DeFoor who coached the Gypsum High School football team in the 1920s. He was a school teacher and pharmacist. He married Lydia Gretchen Doll, who died in Denver...
11) May Dale Thomas
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Studio photo of May Dale Thomas, Eagle Postmistress. She was the wife of Judge L. R. Thomas and mother of Louise Thomas Christensen.
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12) Post Office
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The Post Office in Gilman, Colorado, with Postmaster Harry White sitting on the boardwalk in front of it. An automobile is parked up the street.
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U.S. Post Office, Eagle Colorado, 81631. Photo developed December 1962.
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Potato fields on the Johannbroer Ranch. Pershing Post Office is on the left. Discrepancy in dates. Photo is labeled 1932, but the caption in McCoy Memoirs says 1928.
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Josh Rabedew, back center, standing in the streets of Gilman surrounded by piles of snow. Tunnels to the post office are to the left of Josh. Photo taken c1899. L. K. Fleck's store in back of post office.
16) The Wymans
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Postmaster Kenneth Wyman standing next to his so, Leonard, and wife, Doris, at the Coppertown Post Office and store in 1925. The name was changed to Copper Spur in 1928.
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"About 1922 Lawrence Davis built this house at Volcano railroad siding, at a time when there were a number of railroad men and a few homesteaders living in that area. Davis became Postmaster of the Hydrate Post Office that had been established in 1920 and held that position until the post office was discontinued in 1938 for lack of patrons. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Davis, their daughter, Nellie Seaman, and her son, Vernon, made it their home to some...
18) Mayme Price
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Studio portrait of Mayme Stremme Price wearing a lace collared dress and necklace.
Accompanying material inscription: "Aunt Mayme"
Who's Who in Colorado, 1938, p. 434: B. Gypsum, Colo., Oct. 10, 1887; ed pub sch Gypsum, Eagle Co HS; m Fred A. Price, June 1927 Glenwood Springs; 1905-1935 US Postoffice, Gypsum; 1911 to date (1938) town clerk, Gypsum; Rebekah Lodge Gypsum ch (past noble grand); Luth; Rep; res, Gypsum; office, Theo Stremme Store, Gypsum....
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Looking south down First Street toward Eagle Street in Gypsum circa 1905. The Travelers' Hotel is the second building from the left. There is a boardwalk between buildings.
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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.
