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2. Henry family
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The Warren Henry family standing in front of their cabin on Henry Creek. From left: Mary, Florence, Warren and Ruth Henry. There are antlers piled between Florence and Warren. The cabin has a sod roof.
"Warren Henry and his brother, Bill, were familiar figures around McCoy during the early days of the 1900's. They were both Daddy McCoy's ranchhands and also did freighting between Wolcott and Yampa. Both brothers homesteaded on Blacktail Creek."...
6. Town Park
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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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Darrell, Guy and Boyd Barnes, standing at the doorway of the large cabin at Four Mile (four miles up Eby Creek, toward Castle).
The smaller cabin ..."was built from aspen wood logs and was really small. The roof on this cabin was made of dirt and the family garden was grown on the roof of the little cabin. Phyllis Barnes [Johnson] was born in this cabin one year pretty close to Christmas. ... Guy Barnes cleared more land and built a much larger...