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Horse drawn wagon with two passengers on road east of the entrance to Beaver Creek at Avon (Stone's Ranch). Stone's Ranch later became the Agriculture Experiment Station for the State College...State Farm. The road became U.S. Highway 6.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
2) McCoy lane
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"The McCoy lane looking west. This 1912 photo [says 1911 on verso of photo] shows the front part of the Hotel on the left, [on the right] the blacksmith shop, the big red barn and the front of the old log barn and beyond it, the bridge across Rock Creek. The big barn, approximately fifty by sixty feet in size, was of frame construction and built by C. H. McCoy in 1902. It had stalls for twenty horses and a loft that held ten tons of loose hay....
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Original Avon School before addition, taken prior to 1915. The horse barn has not been built. Fence surrounding school yard visible. Shows the Eagle River on right with "water spruce" hanging over the river and Johnson Lane (named for homesteader Joe Johnson) that was the road into Bachelor Gulch. The road eventually became Highway 6, located about 300 yards west of the current Avon Road. View is to the west. This picture was hanging on the...
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Ethel Mary Macdonell, age 2 or 3, wearing tall socks and a dress. She is standing in a grassy field with mountains, fenceline, and a road in the background.
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Keith Gerard walks along the road in Eagle County. There are several buildings in the background and part of a fenceline to the right.
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A view of Coffin Mountain near Brush Creek. Buildings from the Borah ranch are visible in the background.
"Coffin & Beacher Brush Creek, Colorado, on the road to school house where Mother watched for me." -- Alda Borah
