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A view of the lettuce sheds at Allenton taken from the south side of the Eagle River in 1932 near Edwards, Colorado. Railroad facilities in the background.
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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.
3) Loading wool
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
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The Parachute Store, Doll Bros. & Smith, in Parachute, Colorado. The store is decorated for the 4th of July. People are standing on the boardwalk. Train is at left. Zachariah Doll was the Doll brother most involved with the store.
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Looking down on the Denver & Rio Grande W. roundhouse at Minturn, with the town at back on the right, sometime in the 1930s.
In 1928, a new 120-foot turntable was set in place, replacing the old 100-foot table installed in 1912. The older turntable could not accommodate the 3600-series simple-articulated locomotives assigned to the area. The turntable and roundhouse dominated Minturn
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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.
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
Caption: "Loading part of $20,600 wool shipment from Eagle, Colorado."
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A group of young people in front of the Eagle Valley Feed Mill in Eagle. The Eagle train station is visible in the background.
E. A. (Edward) Michael opened the business in 1912. In 1917, he bought some ranch holdings for $6,500, adding to his residence, feed mill and warehouse properties in Eagle. Due to his wife’s health [Edna Dewey Michael], Michael was forced to sell the ranch to Andrew Christensen for $13,000 in 1920. "The ranch consists...
9) Avon Depot
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Avon Depot in the snow.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Lettuce shed at Allentown, Colorado, near Edwards Colorado, 1939. Fort Tidwell Company is on the sign on top of the building.
[Title supplied from a catalog supplied by the Eagle County Historical Society]
11) Shoe shop
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A tent building in Dotsero used as a shoe shop for railroad construction workers. The photo was printed on April 2, 1933.
12) Early Gypsum
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard, handcolored, 15797: Bridge over the Colorado River on the Dotsero Cutoff.
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"'The Pagodas' in Red Canon, Colorado River. The Dotsero Cutoff, 38.1 miles long, is the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's latest construction, connecting Dotsero, 17 miles east of Glenwood Springs, with Orestod, on the Moffat Road. This reduces the distance 175 miles from Denver to Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and beyond. Ceremonies...
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"About 1922 Lawrence Davis built this house at Volcano railroad siding, at a time when there were a number of railroad men and a few homesteaders living in that area. Davis became Postmaster of the Hydrate Post Office that had been established in 1920 and held that position until the post office was discontinued in 1938 for lack of patrons. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Davis, their daughter, Nellie Seaman, and her son, Vernon, made it their home to some...
15) Ruedi
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Ruedi, Colorado, showing plaster mill, coal kilns, depot, and section house. "The first white man to settle in Ruedi was John Ruedi, who showshoed up from Basalt in the spring of 1885. He homesteaded what is now known as the J revers R Ranch. Bill Smith came in 1887 and homesteaded the YS Ranch.
The steel for the Colorado Midland Railroad was laid through the valley in 1887. The railroad company wanted ground for a depot and section houses....
16) Belden
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Looking toward Belden in the Eagle River Canyon. Tram to Gilman visible at midground.
17) Restaurant
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Three women standing under a "Restaurant" sign in front of a tent building in Dotsero. The clientele for the restaurant would be railroad construction workers.
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Man in suit and tie standing in front of the lettuce shed filled with crates, on the east railway spur of the Avon Depot. Railroad tracks in foreground. Inscription :"10/15/28."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
19) Dotsero cafe
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A cafe next to the Dotsero Drug Company, one of the buildings left from the railroad boom at Dotsero. There are two men seated outside the cafe. It probably also functioned as one of two bars in town (the other was located on Riverside Way on the river bank). The photo was printed April 2, 1933.
Duplicate photo in 2008.015.
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Two of the tent buildings on First Street across from the railroad station in Gypsum [circa 1900]. The first buildings providing services to railroad employees had wooden platforms with tent structures on top and sometimes a false front. Many of the buildings housed saloons and, in this photo, even a bank/saloon combination.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
