Dotsero, Colorado
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1) Hair cut
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Mort Doll cutting Frank [H. F.] Doll's hair outside the ice house on the Dotsero property.
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1898: Frank Doll with horses brought from Ohio, standing in front of cabin at Dotsero. Frank and Lucy Doll with their children, Sam and Susan, spent the Fall and Winter of 1887 here. The one-room log cabin appears to be on a rock foundation with steps leading up to a small porch at the front door.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
3) Truck wreck
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Results of a truck wreck near Dotsero, Colorado. Colorado River in the background.
Photo used as part of the exhibit for People vs. Shipley. no. 441.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Shorty Kindvater next to the Dotsero sign at the Dotsero station. Train in background. [Blurred image]
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Western artist, Jack Roberts, and Starr Doll at the Doll's Dotsero house.
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1928: Dotsero School. Five children standing between a fence and the schoolhouse. Cupola with bell and stove pipe clearly visible.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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First bridge over the Colorado River (then the Grand River) at Dotsero. The bridge was probably built by Mr. Yost or Mr. Stewart.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Gravesite of Elsie J. Trump Owen, Jan. 22,1898--Dec 12, 1985, Stewart Family Cemetery at Dotsero in 1989.
"Graves in the Dotsero Sweetwater area. Collected by Joan Brallier. Helped by Myrti Stephens and John Gannon. Barbara Steward gave the information on Dotsero graves." -- Mildred Toomer
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Dotsero Drug Company building, no longer in existence. The building was left after the railroad boom and was used as a house for many years. Kenny Schultz was an occupant. Automobiles and a truck are parked by the building. The photo was printed April 2, 1933.
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1900s: George "Doc" Yost standing in front of a building. He is wearing overalls and is standing next to someone who has been removed from the photo. George Yost filed an original Dotsero townsite in 1895.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Buildings in Dotsero, from left:
Delco Light Company, which used a gasoline engine to charge batteries. It was a 32 volt light plant after World War II.
Cafe between the Light Company and the Dotsero Drug Company, which may also have been a bar. There were two bars in Dotsero during the railroad years.
Dotsero Drug Company at far right, providing service to railroad construction workers and their families.
14) Truck wreck
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Results of a truck wreck near Dotsero, Colorado. Men examining the wreckage next to guard rails.
Photo used as part of the exhibit for People vs. Shipley. no. 441.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Avery's Texaco station in Dotsero, with gas pump out front. There is a kerosene pump next to the ice house, where 100 pounds of ice cost 50 cents. Gas price of the day was 14 cents per gallon. Advertisements for Nehi and ice cream are on the station buiding.
16) Dotsero Bridge
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Caption: "Dotsero Bridge Over Grand River." The bridge at Dotsero crossing the now-called Colorado River.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
17) Doll Family
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A group at the original Doll family cabin at Dotsero. Lucy Doll is standing at far left; Susan Doll is sitting on the porch rail next to Franklin Doll. The others are not identified. The Doll's moved to Gypsum Valley 1n 1888. [Either this photo or 2012.012.001 is flipped.]
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Cabins built by Nels Yost and rented to railroad construction workers. There are cherry and apple trees behind the cabins, close to the riverbank. They were located north of where the Colorado River Road meets Hwy 6. The photo was printed on April 2, 1933. The automobile at right appears to have a flat tire.
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Marker for the ashes of Jack Stewart II, 1923-1979, in the Stewart Family Cemetery at Dotsero, Colorado.
"Graves in the Dotsero Sweetwater area. Collected by Joan Brallier. Helped by Myrti Stephens and John Gannon. Barbara Steward gave the information on Dotsero graves." -- Mildred Toomer
20) Bill Schumm
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Bill Schumm resting on the way to Deep Lake. [Print made the week of Sept. 4, 1950.]
The Schumm ranch was bought by Frank [H. F.] Doll. It included the current Stephens nursery, house, barns, Two Rivers development, the B & B Gravel Pit [upper hay fields] and up Onion Ridge [cow camp].
