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"A downstream view of the river from a point just below the Ronald Kirby Ranch. The McCoy ferry was located about a mile or so below from where this photo was taken." -- McCoy Memoirs p.144
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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
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"A photo of the Brooks water wheel as it appeared in Empire Magazine about 1972. John Comer, the owner of the former Brooks ranch, is standing in front of it." -- McCoy Memoirs p.153
1962 is written on the front of the photo.
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Iva and Marvin posed for a photo while haying on Congor Mesa Road
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"A group at the Groh ranch in 1913. Dad Stanley, Frank Groh, Edith Hemsworth, Lee BRown and Mrs. Groh's brother, Dr. Shidler, of Pennsylvania." -- McCoy Memoirs p.123
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67) Van Horn wheel
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"This wheel was installed by Howard Van Horn to generate electric power, when he lived on the former Groh ranch. It was set up in an irrigation ditch at a point where the water had sufficient drop to revolve it. The ditch, built by Frank Groh in 1905 has been abandoned for many years and the wheel with it." -- McCoy Memoirs p.130
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Studio portrait of Zola and Roy Sherwood, taken in 1972.
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"Charley McCoy's Upper Place in 1930.The original log house was destroyed by fire in 1927 or 1928 and the frame house was built shortly afterwards. This picture shows some of Charley McCoy's top grade of cattle. Besides the cattle and the one saddle horse, at least seven men and boys are visible just to the left of the barn some of whom were probably members of the Dutch Laman family who were living on the ranch at that time." -- McCoy Memoirs p.108
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70) McCoy Station
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"At the McCoy railroad station, Sept. 6, 1913. In back: Earl Brooks, Eunice Redmond, Phil Hines, [?]
In front: John LaForce, Annie Panting, Edith Hemsworth, Harry Groh, [?], Charley Horn and H. W. Plum, the depot agent." -- McCoy Memoirs p.166
The sign for McCoy has the elevation: 7,210 feet; no population.
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71) Stifel building
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"Another old time building on the Stifel place made of cottonwood and cedar logs. It's anyone's guess what it was built for." -- McCoy Memoirs p.163
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The Charley and Stella McCoy house on Yarmony Creek. A man is sitting on the front steps holding a child and two children are sitting to the left. The porch is covered in vines.
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73) Sherwood House
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"Roy and Zola Sherwood bought the former Phillip Maxwell place on the Colorado River and built this house on it, but only occupied it a very short time." -- McCoy Memoirs p.132
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74) First Christmas
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First Christmas with the Laman Family. Marvin C. Laman married Iva Decker on Nov. 8, 1947, in Yampa in the parsonage of the Congregational Church. Marvin and Iva Laman (in apron) are standing with other family members in the snow..
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"Calvin and Calla James located a homestead at the foot of King Mountain near the Baker claim and they and their family lived in this cabin for several years before moving on to Burns." -- McCoy Memoirs p.175
"They had scarely completed their final poroof on the homestead when they sold to Dr. J. H. Cole. Dr. Cole then sold the place to Roy Sherwood who owned the nearby Wohler ranch." -- p.175
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The John Ambos Ranch on Congor Mesa in the foreground with the Martin Schomers Ranch in the background.
Martin Schomers was among the last to homestead on the Congor Mesa. "Schomers died of tick fever in May of 1940 after being ill only a short time. The children fell heir to his property but since two were still minors, the estate was not settled until 1944. During the intervening time Darrell Ray, who was married to Helen Schomers in 1939, operated...
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Threshing on the Frank Groh Ranch on lower Rock Creek, below McCoy, Colorado.
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Douglas Martin and Glende Vernice standing next to the remains of a building on the Hank Fox place, Red Dirt Creek. Vesintiner's Dam broke on June 3, 1952, flooding the area down through McCoy. -- Verso
Eagle Valley Enterprise June 5, 1952 p.1: "Dam Break Destoys Cabins at McCoy.
Homes, ranch property and livestock were destroyed early Tuesday morning when the King Mt. Reservoir dam near McCoy gave way, spilling 600 acre feet of water into Red,...
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The McCoy and Wohler grain threshing outfit on the Frank Groh ranch, lower Rock Creek near McCoy, in 1911. Related to 1992.004A.026
Left to right: Charles McCoy, Phil Kapale, Frank Groh, Cliff Daniels, Harry Groh, Ben Butler, Tom Wohler, Sam Kibbler, Ed Baily [from verso of photo]
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The Arthur Horn Ranch on Lower Rock Creek, looking north east toward Conger Mesa (near McCoy).
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