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View of the Brush Creek Lodge from the brochure, "Spend your vacation this summer...at Brush Creek Lodge." [photo mounted on verso of cover] The Lodge was situated south of Eagle. Taking Brush Creek Road, travel eleven miles to the fork; take the left fork and drive four miles to the lodge, near Yeoman Park. Mrs. Jo Wirsching, owner, manager; rooms by reservation only.
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Ralph and Mary Belding standing in a yard in Eagle, Colorado. A house is visible in the right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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View of the town of Eagle, Colorado, looking south, up Brush Creek from across the valley. The railroad bridge is in the mid-ground. Broadway is the large, wide street in the center of the photo, running north to south. Ross Chamber's dairy farm is in the lower right hand corner (where the I-70 interchange is now located). [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Legal Description: Block 07 Lots 11-13; Property Code 33; Original observation date 12-Aug-05. Use History 1911: The "Record of Tax Sales" ledger (page 4) lists the owner of record on December 26, 1911 as John Mathews. The sale was to be for property at Block 7, lots - 11 & 12. 1920 to 1929: County Assessor Burr Fuller lived in this house during the 1920s. 1950: Formerly the Priest residence (George and Bessie Priest) - time period not identified. 1970...
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"This photograph appeared on the inside cover of the 1928 Eagle High School yearbook [Lux Aquilae]. Although there was never a big population of bighorn sheep on Brush Creek, they were known to winter there. The animals could be found in the summer on New York Mountain, Fools Peak, at Nolan Lake and in the Metheney Park area. The sheep population declined in the mid-1950s due to poaching and disease." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.121
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Taken August 2, 2011, looking through the hotel toward the south. Deconstruction of the Nogal-Ping hotel and cabins in Eagle by Claude DeGraw began in 2010. Nogal's Hotel, built in 1892, was later purchased by the O. A. Ping family in 1923. It was occupied by siblings Leonard and Garnet Ping most recently. Leonard died in 1988 and Garnet moved to Gypsum in the late 1990s, passing away in 2003. It stands at the corner of Hwy 24 and Capitol Streets...

47. Caboose

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A railroad caboose, part of the museum complex at the Chambers Park visitor center in Eagle, Colorado. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two boys dressed for a special occasion.
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Tom Lewis examining hats with an unidentified gentleman,
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Ida Herwick and her children, Thanksgiving 1894, at church services in Wolcott. Back row, L to R: Paul, age 10; Frederick, age 13; WIlliam C., age 15 Front, L to R: Tina, age 3; Ida, Age 33; Mary, age 18 mos.; Oren age 5; Birdellah, age 17; Guy, age 6 "For several months she had been putting a little money away for a special occasion, and she intended that having a family portrait done would be it. Of all the things she could think of, having...
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Photo postcard looking down on H. K. Brooks' Bar X Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at the bottom of the photo. Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Bar X Ranch (formerly the Castle Peak Ranch) in Eagle. Before Brooks, the ranch...
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Legal Description: Block 05 Lots 19-20; Property Code 29; Original observation date 06-Oct-05. Use History 1926: The "Record of Tax Sales" ledger (page 101) lists the owner of record on December 4, 1926 as H. P. Oleson. The sale was to be for property at Block 5, lots - all. Use History from 2005 to 2005: Residence.
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Mammie Long, standing at the entrance to a brick building in Eagle [courthouse or school].
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Melonie Gordon, 1979-1980 Rodeo Queen, on stage during the Eagle County Fair.
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A young boy holding a puppy is standing on the front walk of the Andre Funeral Home, 125 E. 2nd St., Eagle. The photo was developed on Jan. 17, 1941.
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Stacking hay on the Chester Mayer Ranch (Eagle, Colorado), not the Eagle Ranch subdivision on Brush Creek. The hay was lifted to the top of the stack by a "Mormon Derrick," a weight and pulley arrangement using a crane. The derrick is in the center of the photo with horse teams and rakes "pushing" hay to the loading area. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Edie Lederhause, 1980-1981 Rodeo Queen, at left, after being crowned. Karen Greenman, at right, is receiving her sash as Attendant during the Eagle County Fair.
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Brandie Burke, 1984-85 Rodeo Junior Princess. Brandie is nine years old in this photo, holding balloons, bouquet and belt buckle.
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Legal Description: Block 05 Lots 24-24; Property Code 31; Original observation date 06-Oct-05. Northeast corner of Sixth and Church. Use History 1926: The "Record of Tax Sales" ledger (page 101) lists the owner of record on December 4, 1926 as H. P. Oleson. The sale was to be for property at Block 5, lots - all. Use History from 2005 to 2005: Vacant at time of Property Survey. 2014: This property is a part of the 561 E. 6th Street property.
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Photo postcard of the Memorial Day Parade at Eagle, Colorado, May 30, 1930. The colors followed by the American Legion are marching down Broadway. "Local veterans march down Eagle's main street in the 1930 Memorial Day parade. Note that the Buchholz Livery is no longer in place. The businesses in the middle of the block (on the east side of Broadway) include a restaurant and the Eagle Valley Enterprise offices." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.80...