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C.1900: "The Big Barn," Doll Brothers Ranch, Gypsum Valley. Barn had 3 full stories, running water and electricity. Could stable 250 horses individually. Winter view with snow on ground. Fencing in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
2) LaGrow home
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LaGrow home, builit on East Cooley Mesa near Gypsum, in 1900. The LaGrow family moved to Gypsum in the 1970s.
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C.1900: Rancher bent over scalding tub during fall hog butchering, Doll Brothers Ranch. Six carcasses hanging from supports on the left. Snow on ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The 1916 election was also a presidential one where we elected Woodrow Wilson. Here are the election results for all of Eagle County, including Ruedi, Wolcott, "Lakes", Red Cliff, Gypsum, Burns, Eagle, and others. The election also includes several towns that no longer exist: Gilman, Pando, Sheephorn, and Fulford.
In Eagle County, Wilson was easily their president-elect.
7) Doll Family
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Frank Doll seated at the "Gypsum Valley Home." Behind him stand Hiram F. Doll, Ruth (a worker at the Home), and Frank A. Doll.
8) Early Gypsum
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Panoramic photograph of early Gypsum, Colorado. The photograph is dated "about 1902".
10) The Evelyns
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Group photo at the Lea home in Gypsum, Colorado.
From left to right: Urdine Bell Messersmith Lea, Evelyn Marguerite Lea, Evelyn Urdine, Evelyn Carol (daughter of Evelyn Urdine)
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Evelyn Marguerite Lea, daughter of William Henry and Urdine Bell Messersmith. The photo is dated 1920 in Gypsum, Colorado.
13) Messersmiths
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From left to right: George Washington Messersmith, Elias Messersmith (brother to George Washington), Urdine Messersmith Lea, James Cain Messersmith (son of Elias), Andrew "Andy" Elias Messersmith (son of George Washington). Evelyn Urdine Douthit, Urdine's granddaughter, is standing on a chair in the front. There is a dog in the bottom right corner of the photograph and Elias Messersmith is holding a cane. A road and mountains can be seen in the background....
14) The Leas
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Portrait of Eagle County High School students.
2nd row, first boy on the left is Richard "Bud" George; 3rd boy from left in 2nd row in Elmer Lundgren. Top row, 4th girl from left is Blanche Messersmith.
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Evelyn Urdine Douthit sits with the dog, Spot, in the mail cart that her grandfather, George Washington Messermith, would use to pick up mail from the Gypsum Post Office. The photo was dated 1926.
18) The Johnsons
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Zella Lea Johnson with her husband, Charles James Lea. Charles was the brother of William Henry Lea.
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George Messermith holds Evelyn in front of her great-grandmother Johanna Lea's cabin in Gypsum, Colorado.
