Eagle County Historical Society
Showing
1 - 20
of 33
, query time: 0.01s
Format:
Image
Registration table for the Cemetery Tour.
In the back are Brian Hall and Laura Thompson.
At the tables, from left: Ron Moos, Georgie Zinda, Bill Harris, Suzie Ross, Sandy VanCampen, Joanne Cermak
Format:
Image
Actor Donna Spinelli, at center, portraying Elvira Schlegel, wife of Piney homesteader Mathias Schlegel. Docent Laura Thompson is at left.
3) Hank Elliott
Format:
Image
Actor Cooter Overcash portraying Hank Elliott, rancher, boxing promoter and bootlegger.
4) Caboose
Format:
Image
A railroad caboose, part of the museum complex at the Chambers Park visitor center in Eagle, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Actor Madeline Moos portraying Fanny Collins, wife of Tom Collins, miner and community supporter.
Format:
Image
The Eagle County Historical Society Museum sporting a new "Open" sign constructed by Bob Walker. The verso of the sign says "Shut." The photo was taken in June 1994.
Format:
Image
Actor Janice Tonz portraying Sophie Knight, wife of Thomas Knight, both prospectors in the Holy Cross Mining District.
Format:
Image
Kathy Heicher, president of the Eagle County Historical Society, discussing Red Canyon quarry history with participants during the Open Space tour.
[April 20, 2014: first tour of the Horn Ranch property, sponsored by the Eagle County Open Space Department. The conservation easement on the property allows limited numbers of the public to tour the historic cliff property four times a year.]
Format:
Image
Actor Brian Hall portraying Billy Booco,and docent Laura Thompson.
12) Chambers Ranch
Format:
Image
The Chambers Ranch at the mouth of Eby Creek in Eagle, Colorado. The white barn became the museum for the Eagle County Historical Society. The site with the buildings is now the Eagle interchange for I-70.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Chet and Ruth Mayer on their 55th wedding anniversary, May 22, 1984. "Chet was one of the first members of the Eagle County Historical Society and a member of the local Cattlemen's Association." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise March 26, 1992
William and Cora Mayer, Chet's parents, ran the Mayer Ranch before Chet inherited it. That area is now the Eagle Ranch subdivision of Eagle, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
14) Billy Booco
Format:
Image
Actor Brian Hall portraying original Minturn Homesteader Billy Booco [not buried in River View].
Format:
Image
Rudy Olin portraying Charley Johnson 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.
Charley (Charles H.) Johnson died about July 26, 1901. He was a Dotsero cattleman who was murdered by a gunshot to the back of the head...
16) Tour group
Format:
Image
Eagle County Historical Society President, Kathy Heicher, leading a group at 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.
Format:
Image
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...
Format:
Image
Brian Hall of the Porchlight Players, portraying both mountain man John Root 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.
John Root was born in 1835 and died December 1919. He came to the Eagle River valley while the Ute...
Format:
Image
Terri Vroman portraying Lucy Doll 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.
Lucy Ellen Slusser Doll was born October 22, 1859 and died June 22, 1939. She came to Gypsum with her husband, rancher Frank Doll, in 1887.They...
20) Hugh Luby
Format:
Image
Actor Doug Lewer portraying Hugh Luby, engineer turned saloon keeper [not actually buried in River View].
