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Looking across a field in Bachelor Gulch with a hayrick in midground, fencing in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
22) Ft. Morgan farm
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Grandma George's (Charity Elizabeth Forster George) farm in Fr. Morgan with cattle headed toward the barn.
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Barn and fencing near the old farmstead once owned by Gulling Offerson. Unpaved road with visible rocks in foreground. Buck Creek is in the background and Swift Gulch is at far right. The site is just up the hill from the Avon general store.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
24) Offerson House
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View of the Offerson house and porch. Dated Sept. 28, 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Formerly Dan Koprinikar's home in Edwards, suspected to be the pre-1898 residence of the John Howard family. Woman and girl in front of house may be Mrs. Howard and Ethel. Bicycle on porch. Hay stacks in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Full sacks of potatoes, lined up on wagon, ready for storage or shipping. A man rests on a sack for the photo, taken on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
27) Ft. Morgan farm
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Elizabeth George at her farm in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. She is standing with a cow and wearing a bonnet for sun protection, dogs in background.
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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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John Bunker pushing a lettuce planter on the Offerson Ranch.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Alan Nottingham and his older sister, Winifred Nottingham Mason, standing at the entrance to the College Farm house. Across from Arrowhead in what is now Eagle-Vail, the College Farm was an agriculture experiment station for Colorado A & M College.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Loading 100# sacks of potatoes onto wagon at the Shryack Place (also called the Mosher Place) on lower Brush Creek. From there, the sacks would be taken to "spud" cellars. Two horse team is pulling the wagon; farm buildings in left background.
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Mary Jane Kirkland Forster, mother of Elizabeth Charity and Franklin Pierce Forster.
"Henry Moore and his new wife settled down on the farm that Henry's dad had given to him. He didn't plan to stay on his farm for long. He wasn't content with being like the others. He had a dream to join the movement west. But time has a way of slipping by and then they started their family. On July 27, 1854, Elizabeth Charity Forster was born. Another daughter,...
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Everett Howard's mother-in-law and his sister, Virgie, standing in front of a building. A crate of some sort is visible. The women are dressed for fieldwork, wearing overalls, hats, boots and gloves.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
34) Potato fields
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Rows of potato plants on the Offerson Ranch. Inscription states: "Another view of the spud patch in 1929."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Guy Cates, Doc Rodgers and Ed Rodgers loading lettuce at Bachelor Gulch. Cates is standing next to the wagon loaded with lettuce crates; the other men are in the wagon. A two-horse team pulls the wagon. A tall pine stands at midground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
36) Ft. Morgan farm
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Elizabeth George at her farm in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. She is sitting with her children standing behind her. Left to right, Edna George (born Aug, 10, 1890), Frank Forester George (born Apr. 9, 1881), Nona (Atha Nonetta George birn, Dec, 16, 1877), and Alice Maud George (born May 10, 1874).
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1900-1920: The Perch [sic.] house is now the oldest standing building on Squaw Creek. The log cabin structure, is shown in the snow.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Eagle County Commissioner Sara Fisher portraying Lillian Anderson, caretaker of the County Poor Farm, during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Lillian Anderson died February 26, 1962. She and her husband, John, were...
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Harry and Louis Alton Fenno, standing next to each other in a yard at Squaw Creek. Building in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
