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"After the abandonment of the Pioneer Cottonwood school in 1911, another schoolhouse of log construction was built on Antelope Creek a mile or so west of Cottonwood. Ed Robinson donated the land and Arthur Panting, Phil Maxwell and Perry Ault donated the labor with an assist from Tom Wohler. Ault and Maxwell cut the logs for the building on King Mountain, but Panting, who was to do the skidding, had the misfortune to break a leg while doing that,...
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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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Bailey School at Burns, Colorado. The log structure is above the "21" Ditch across from the T. Harry Benton home and west of the present Ben Wurtsmith home (formerly known as the Bailey Place). Martha Gates was the teacher as well as Margaret Porter (nee Brooks). Martha is now Mrs. Garland Godbold (1986).
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"The Blacktail School near Radium, Colo., in 1909. Back Row: Dewey Leroux, Dora Mugrage, Jessie Cannon (teacher), Alonzo Hudson, Leon Leroux. In front: Andrew Henry, Laura Mugrage, Leander Hoyt, Ammi Hoyt." -- verso caption
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6) Cabin
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The cabin behind the Reno Cafe & bar, 127 Water St., in Red Cliff, with doors opened. This cabin was used as the first school in Red Cliff in 1880. Since then, it has been used as a residence [Jack Ages] and as a garage. [photo taken oct. 17, 2014, by Angela Beck]
7) Cabin
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The cabin behind the Reno Cafe & bar, 127 Water St., in Red Cliff. This cabin was used as the first school in Red Cliff in 1880. Since then, it has been used as a residence [Jack Ages] and as a garage. [photo taken oct. 17, 2014, by Angela Beck]
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The Derby Mesa Schoolhouse, Burns, Colorado, in 1980, being used as a private residence. The front of the school has had an addition at the front door with a roof overhang. The house number reads 13060. Gaylord Clark taught in this school from 1933-1935.
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Edwards School children in the spring of 1946, grouped around a horse.
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1976, Gore Creek School, near Vail, which was in School District No. 11, Minturn [Outside].
The building was moved to Ford Park in Vail by Gore Creek Preservation Society.
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August 1974 photo of Gore Creek Schoolhouse before it was moved to Ford Park in Vail, Colorado, by the Gore Creek Preservation Society. Two people are in the field at far right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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.]
13) Luby School
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Miss Ranoux's class at the Luby School, Joint 6 School District (Cattle Creek), Missouri Heights.
14) Nottingham Barn
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Old barn just west of the Emmett Nottingham place. The barn was probably built by Clyde Nottingham around 1908. Beaver Creek is to the left. The old Avon School is just right of center. The first Avon bridge is visible in the foreground in front of the school (west of current bridges about 100 yards and lower to the water). The Joe Smith house is to the right.
This bridge was probably built in the early 1900s. It was replaced by the second...
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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...
16) Ruedi School
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Ruedi School, picture of Mrs. Meredith's class in Basalt School District 19.
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School house situated at the mouth of Sunnyside Creek, Burns, Colorado, during the early 1900s. T. Harry Benton rode his horse to this school as did the children of George Benton. Evelyn Evans was the teacher. She married a local cowboy. Evidence of the schools is totally gone.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The first school on the Conger Mesa was held in a small cabin on the Schrupp ranch in 1911. The second one was held in this log house built by John Conger in 1892 and abandoned by him a few years later. The building was none too warm and the school furnishings crude but after seven years without a school, no one complained. The building served as a school until a frame building was built in a more central location in 1916.
In the fall of 1912...
19) Sheephorn school
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"A pioneer school house on Sheephorn Creek. Located near the former Anghern ranch, it appeared to have been abandoned several years before this picture was taken in 1915." -- McCoy Memoirs p.316
[photo has date as 1914]
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Students and teacher, Miss Patterson, in front of Spring Valley School, Gypsum. The log school building has six tall, paned windows providing light to the classroom.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
