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1) 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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Avon School after the addition. The front was extended and the belfry was added. The addition to the back has not yet been done which dates the photo as 1920-21. A group of students is seated at the side of the building.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Barn and coal shed at the Avon School, looking northeast to Buck Creek. Barn fencing and some logs in right foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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...
