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61. 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.
65. McCoy Hotel
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Photo postcard of the McCoy Bridge over Rock Creek.
On verso, by John Ambos: "For many years all traffic between Wolcott and Routt Co. passed over this bridge, including thousands of freight wagons, hundreds of stages and many herds of cattle, traveling in both directions. Hi water and floods took the bridge out on 3 occasions. There has been no bridge across Rock Creek at McCoy since Hiway 131."
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"Except for its contour, this doesn't look like the ranch house that Tom and Sarah Wohler built and lived in for twenty-five years, but the original log structure is there under a new roof and exterior remodeling. The Wohlers' adopted daughter spent her childhood years here and in later years as the wife of Roy Sherwood." -- McCoy Memoirs p.131
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
71. Gilman School
72. Peggy Mulnix
74. McCoy Hotel 1956
76. Dance hall
77. Mewthing place
78. Gypsum
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"The east end of the Hotel, two years after the Brooks family had taken over from George Bechtelheimer in 1913. The occupants of the Brooks' family Maxwell car are unidentified, but some members of the family can be seen inside the fence, with Ethel and Bud in front of it." -- McCoy Memoirs p.96
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]