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"Along with the move of the county seat came an obligation to build a modern county courthouse. Designed by renowned architect J. Francis Pillsbury, the Eagle County Courthouse was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $60,000. The sheriff's office was on the basement floor along with living quarters for the jailer. The jail and courtroom were on the third floor (note the bars on the window at leaft). -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.82
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Eagle County Courthouse, 551 Broadway, constructed in 1932. Forty years later, the trees have obstructed the front of the building Art Deco building.
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1st Lt. Charles Hemberger, 107th Engineers, U.S. Army 32nd Division "Red Arrow Division," deployed to France February 1918, World War I. Hemberger served as Eagle County Clerk and Recorder, 1916-1917; Eagle County State Representative, 1926-1930.
Hemberger acquired multiple parcels of land at Fulford by paying back taxes for them. He wintered on Cooley Mesa, between Gypsum and Eagle, naming his ranch the Red Arrow Ranch.
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"Eagle County Road overseer Ammi Hoyt and maintainer on Sheephorn Creek in 1961. Ammi had never expected to be in the movies, but on this day a motion picture company was photographing the snow plowing operation." -- McCoy Memoirs p.200
Pettibone Mulliken is a manufacturer of heavy equipment from 1880 to recent times.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Front view of the Eagle County Court House built in 1932. Photograph labeled: Sanborn w.2005 in lower right hand corner.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Coleman truck parked in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post, Minturn, Colorado, January 2004.
"I remember that Walt Owen had an International two-ton truck with a Coleman front end. It was a County vehicle,... later turned into a wrecker. The tires on that Coleman truck are about what I thought they would be. Back in those days that was a pretty big tire; they were said to have cost $100.00 apiece and I believe that Gates was the only...
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Interior of the County Assessor's Office in Red Cliff. Calendar date in upper left corner is 1903. Nick Buchholz was the Assessor during the 1920's. The picture shows three men behind a counter in the office.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Frances Watson retells the story and history of her esteemed husband, George Watson. Watson was an influential cattleman, stockman, and rangeman, who helped secure grazing rights, served on advisory boards for different livestock and agriculture organizations, and was a rancher himself. Watson served a term as Eagle County Commissioner. Frances tells stories of riding on long cattle and horse drives, helping her husband in remote areas of wilderness,...
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Undersheriff John Clark on the left, seated next to Game Warden Al Orlosky, in the Eagle County Sheriff's Office. Undersheriff Clark was shot by Delmar Spooner on July 11, 1961, and died from his wound on July 12, 1961.
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"Along with the move of the county seat came an obligation to build a modern county courthouse. Designed by renowned architect J. Francis Pillsbury, the Eagle County Courthouse was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $60,000. The sheriff's office was on the basement floor along with living quarters for the jailer. The jail and courtroom were on the third floor (note the bars on the window at leaft). -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.82
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Front view of the Eagle County Court House built in 1932. Postcard labeled: Sanborn w.2005 in lower right hand corner.
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The front entrance on the eastern side of the Eagle County Building. It houses many of the county's local government agencies. Castle Peak can be seen in the background.
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Former Grand Junction Mayor Jane Quimby talks about her upbringing in Rifle and Grand Junction, Colorado, and her studies. She reminisces about her husband’s profession, being a mother and homemaker for six children, and teaching flute and piano. She remembers substitute teaching from 1967 to 1971 and how that challenge gave her the courage to seek political office. She speaks about the support that she received from other women in the community...
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County commissioner Maxine Albers serves as spokeswoman during a Mesa County centennial celebration, in which surviving former Mesa County Commissioners from the previous 100 years were honored by the present commission in 1983. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
*The recording suffers from poor audio in places...
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Lawrence Aubert talks about his father’s immigration from France and his arrival on Pinon Mesa in 1926, where he homesteaded and ran sheep. He remembers changes in sheep ranching after the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act, sheep rustling, and friction between sheep and cattle ranchers. He discusses the effect of predatory animals on sheep herd size on Pinon Mesa. He talks about Basque and Mexican immigrants who came to herd sheep in Colorado and...
