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"Conger Mesa, 1916. Mrs. Mary Ebert, Lulu Lowe (a school teacher), Mary Schmoeger and son Charles of Denver, and August Ebert (in white hat)." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 258 Photo taken by Ferdinand Ambos. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"These hunters were camped on Black Creek, ten miles north-east of McCoy in 1912. They are: Rudolph Ebert, Carl Schrupp, Ernest Werner and Fritz Arendt. The photo by Martin Schomers. At that date, it's doubtful if any one of the group possessed a hunting license. Note the grouse hanging on the tree, one of the reasons that grouse, once so plentiful in those days, are so scarce now." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.11 Photo postcard. [Title supplied from...
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"The Conger Mesa School of 1917 was a new frame building located about a half mile north east of the Conger cabin. Some of the earlier settlers of McCoy had never expected this to come about, after their predictions that the Conger Mesa Ditch would go broke and leave. In this school group are, in the back row, Earl Abbett, Martha White (the teacher), Ruth Henry, Katherine Ebert, Florence Henry and Lillian Johannbroer. In front, Roger Butler, Frank...
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"When Renee and Charlotte Wolf bought the Ebert Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1973, this is how the house looked to them. It was built by Rudolph Ebert about 1912 or right after the homestead cabin was burned to the ground. Besides the Ebert family, others who lived here were: Walter and Ethel Evans, Frank and Leila Ault, Pete and Juanita Johnsen, Joe and Mary Nichols then Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brown, who abandoned it for twenty years.: -- McCoy Memoirs p....
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"Abandoned horse drawn farm equipment on the Ebert Ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 260 The two-story Ebert ranch house is at far right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The upper part of the Conger Mesa, looking south-east and across Rock Creek Canyon, From Volcano Ridge. Taken in 1919, it shows the Ebert, Ambos, Johannbroer, Theisen, Abbett and a portion of the Schomers place on the extreme right. Before settlement, a well defined Ute Indian trail crossed over the Mesa from Egeria Park to the Blue River, by way of Yarmony Park. Notice the Crater before its exploitation by commerical interests." McCoy Memoirs,...
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Looking toward Castle from Black Mountain Ranch on Conger Mesa, facing southwest. Ebert Ranch is visible at midground. Alternate descriptions of this photograph date it to 1925.
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Marker for: "Phillip S. Ebert, died Feb. 12, 1907, aged 25 years, At rest," Greenwood Cemetery. The Woodmen of the World symbol is engraved in the middle of the marker. At the bottom of the marker is inscribed: "Here rests a Woodman of the World." Ivy is sculpted at the top of the marker.
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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...
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School picture of the 3rd and 4th grades, Golden, Colorado, 1903-1904. Agatha Ebert, Florence and Josephine Kayser, Carl Schrupp and John Ambos are in this photo, previous to relocating in the McCoy area. Back row: Viola Nixon, Agatha Ebert, Ida Youngwall, Amy Harris, Mary Eldridge, -----, Laura Morton, Amanda Rue, Stella Reed, Ida Bently, Lena Grass, Florence Kayser, Josephine Kayser, Mabel Mathews, Flossie Couch, Lily Youngwall Middle row: Percy...
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Students and teacher at Conger Mesa School, December 1912. From left, Marie Theisen, Ed Schrupp, Cecil Gray, Emma Theisen, Katherine Ebert, John Ambos, Mary Ebert, Kate Pound (teacher), Ethel Gray, Lena and Emma Schrupp. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Earl and Hollis Brooks both loved baseball and one of the first things they did after coming to McCoy was to organize a baseball team from local talent. They whipped up a good team in no time and played other small towns. ... When the men came in for the construction of the Dotsero Cutoff Earl didn't let any grass grow under his feet until he had two teams organized among them and a diamond laid out on his place near the bridge." -- McCoy Memoirs,...
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A group from McCoy attended the Denver Stock Show in 1913 [back of photo says 1914]. "Left to right: Phil Hines, Harry Groh, Ethel McCoy, John Kier, Kate Pound, Jack Grimes, Mae Grimes, Stella McCoy, Frank Groh, Agatha Ebert, George Irondale." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.101 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Fourth of July picnic on Rock Creek in 1919. From left, standing: "Jacob Johannbroer, Frank Garner (on horse), Katherine and Mary Ebert, Florence Henry, Lillian Johannbroer, Pauline and Helen Schomers, Lulu Lowe, Mary, Ruth and Warren Henry, Martin Theisen, Bill Johannbroes (on horse). Seated: Lily and William Johannbroer, Mary Theisen, Katherine and William Hoff (Martin Schomers' Mother and Step-father), Mary Ebert. On the ground: August Ebert,...