Copper Spur, Colorado
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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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"A group of people from the eastern part of the country heard about a copper mine near McCoy and formed the Copper King Mine and Milling Company with headquarters at Copper Spur and began promoting the mine on a large scale. They sold stock mostly to eastern investors, but a few Colorado people thought they saw a good thing and bought in. By 1916 the mine located about two miles northeast of Copper Spur was in production and the ore being milled,...
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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"This attractive house on Yarmony Creek below Copper Spur, was built and occupied by Dr. J. H. Cole until his death in 1947. Since then, Roy and Jean Vawter, who was the Doctor's adopted daughter, have mad it their home." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 208
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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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Frances Noel house at 1620 Copper Spur Rd., built in 1904.
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Frances Noel house at 1620 Copper Spur Rd., built in 1904. There is a porch on the front and additional structures on the back of the house. A stove is sitting in the yard.
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"Pioneer Doctor Cole moved from Yampa to Copper Spur about 1927 and he, his wife and daughter Jean lived in this house several years before building a home of their own at the spring below the town." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.208
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13) 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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"At the Copper King mine in 1910: Fred Norquist, John LaForce, Emmett Quinlan, Warren Gibson and Frank Groh. For some unknown reason, the various individuals and companies who had operated the mine up to 1950 never bothered to have it patented." -- McCoy Memoirs p. 12
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"When the Copper King Mine and Milling Co. was in operation from 1916 to 1920, officials of the company put on open house parties, dances and lavish entertainment with souvenirs for the entire community, most of it charged to the stockholders. This group at a masquerade ball held at Copper Spur February 22, 1917 [back of photo says February 14, 1917], have all been identified.
In the back row are, left to right: Richard Klumker, George Klumker,...
