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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...
2) 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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Carlson IGA Store and the Basalt Post Office, located about midblock of main street (Railroad Avenue) Basalt. A public water fountain is located between the two buildings.
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Studio photo of May Dale Thomas, Eagle Postmistress. She was the wife of Judge L. R. Thomas and mother of Louise Thomas Christensen.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
5) 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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"About 1922 Lawrence Davis built this house at Volcano railroad siding, at a time when there were a number of railroad men and a few homesteaders living in that area. Davis became Postmaster of the Hydrate Post Office that had been established in 1920 and held that position until the post office was discontinued in 1938 for lack of patrons. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Davis, their daughter, Nellie Seaman, and her son, Vernon, made it their home to some...
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The two story building at left is the former U.S. Post Office on Water St. in Red Cliff. The trailr was also used as the Post office for a while. The new Post Office was opened in 1990.
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The E. E. Glenn & Co. General Merchandise store on Broadway in Eagle. The Post Office was also located in the building. There are boardwalks around the building. A dozen men and two children are standing in front of the store.
"Ed Glenn was first attracted to this county by the mining camp at Fulford when that camp was at the boom stage, and later married Mrs. Belding who owned the store located on the site in the same building now occupied by...
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Elmer J. Bindley, known as Jack, came to Colorado in July of 1910 and entered into the barber trade in Eagle. This business, the Silver Eagle Barber and Beauty Shop, continued until his death in 1959. Jack had ran the shop in partnership with his son, ira, who took over upon his father's death until his own retirement in 1986.
This is much more than an envelope and advertises the town of Eagle in general. There are local photographs of ranches...
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Elmer J. Bindley, known as Jack, came to Colorado in July of 1910 and entered into the barber trade in Eagle. This business, the Silver Eagle Barber and Beauty Shop, continued until his death in 1959. Jack had ran the shop in partnership with his son, ira, who took over upon his father's death until his own retirement in 1986.
This is much more than an envelope and advertises the town of Eagle in general. There are local photographs of ranches...
11) W. H. Wellington
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"The old mail carrier at Edwards, W. H. Wellington." -- Esther Klatt
"Dad" Wellington began carrying the mail between the post office in Edwards, Colorado, and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad station in Edwards on May 13, 1895. He was scheduled for 14 trips per week at a distance of 2,264 feet per trip, using his buckboard pulled by "Faithful Jack." Wellington claimed it was the only mule mail route in the United States."
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Frank Chiaro describes his life as the child of Italian immigrants, farm life in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, and his various jobs, including his work as a boilermaker for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He also talks about the second incarnation of his railroading career as a clerk, about mail cars and mail clerks, about the Durham Stockyards and the many livestock trains departing Grand Junction, and about water towers for steam...
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In an interview recorded November 8, 1977, Fred Ames and his wife Emma Lillian (Stocks) Ames discuss the history of Sinbad Valley and its settlement by his family and others.
In second and third interviews recorded on November 15 and December 3, 1977 (transcript only*), Fred Ames talks about the McCarty Gang, their stomping grounds in Sinbad Valley and nearby Eastern Utah, and about meeting Tom McCarty as a child. He discusses homesteading and...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play To Give or Exchange...
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Emma Conner talks about the lives of her parents and grandparents, Mesa County pioneers. She speaks about her early schooling at the Franklin School and work in her grandmother’s boardinghouse. She details restrictions that were put into place during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. She discusses the railroad occupations of her father and husbands, and a rail accident that killed her second husband. She talks about downtown Grand Junction’s dirt...
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Wilbur Downey talks about his family settling in Loma, Colorado, where his father bought a pool hall in 1919. He describes the agricultural character of Loma at that time. He and Mildred speak about running the Loma Store, a general store, and about other businesses in Loma. They talk about the settlement of Loma by people escaping the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s. They discuss Loma’s train depot, passenger train service to Loma, freight trains that...
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Dorothy Tindall talks about the early days of Whitewater, Colorado as a rail center for cattle and stock. She speaks about the administrative organization of schools prior to the consolidation of Mesa County School District 51, her development of Mesa County’s first school hot lunch program at the Star School, games kids played at recess, about her work educating the children of migrant laborers who lived in La Colonia, and her role in the development...
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Dave Hinkle talks about coming to Western Colorado in the 1920’s, riding the rails in search of work, dealing with the railyard “bulls,” working the peach harvests in Palisade, and working for the railroad in ice cars packed with peaches. He recalls other jobs he held, including the Star mail route from Dragon Mountain to Somerset, ranch work for the D.R.C. Brown Ranch on Muddy Creek, and herding sheep on the Uncompahgre. He speaks about the...
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Lola Jennings talks about growing up in Lewis, Colorado, her family, and picking mayflowers. She remembers childhood chores on the farm and her schooling. She recalls an ice skating accident in which she was severely injured and had a lengthy hospital stay at the Oshmer Hospital in Durango. She speaks about breaking wild horses, wildlife in Montezuma County, ice houses, and raising and butchering hogs. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County...
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James Brouse discusses moving and going to school in Glade Park, Colorado as a young boy in 1915. He tells tales of cowpunching in the canyons near Westwater, homesteading, the difficulties of dry farming, and the methods and difficulties of transportation into town from up on Glade Park. He also talks about local murders, sheep and cattlemen wars, and the history of different schools in the area. His wife Ellen (Morse) Brouse, longtime Mesa County...
