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A bird's-eye view of Kent with a few buildings visible, hayfields in foreground.
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Remains of the Sherwood quarry drum and pulley structure on the Horn Ranch property in Red Canyon. The drum is visible from I-70. Stone from this quarry was used to build the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. "The archive of the Colorado Historical Museum offers a bit more information about the quarry site. A typewritten transcript titled 'Memories of Eagle County in the 1880s,' authored by Amy M. Bowen, the daughter of Avon area homesteader John...
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Looking down on the Sherwood bridge from the Sherwood quarry drum. Hwy 6 is at the top, the Eagle River is flowing under the Sherwood bridge and I-70 is at the bottom. At the turn of the century, major routes in the Colorado mountains were steep, rocky grades, little more than wagon tracks. By 1910, cars were becoming more prominent but Colorado roads were in terrible condition. That year, the State Highway Commission established Highway 10 from...
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Remains of the Sherwood quarry drum and pulley structure on the Horn Ranch property in Red Canyon. The drum is visible from I-70. Stone from this quarry was used to build the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. "The archive of the Colorado Historical Museum offers a bit more information about the quarry site. A typewritten transcript titled 'Memories of Eagle County in the 1880s,' authored by Amy M. Bowen, the daughter of Avon area homesteader John...
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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.]
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Kent with the section house visible.
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Red cliff at Red Point in Red Canyon, Horn Ranch property. Leonard Horn frequently jumped his horse across the crevice between the cliff and the hillside. [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.]
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Kent with hayfields visible. A two-horse team is cutting.
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Dan Flynn on the old quarry rigging in Red Canyon [Leonard Horn's place].
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Cross and bleachers on Red Cliff [Red Canyon] used for Easter sunrise services in the 1960s and 1970s. When you are looking at the cross, you are looking directly east up the valley. "According the the [Eagle Valley] Enterprise archives, the cross was installed by [Leonard] Horn in 1962 after Rev. Mann of the Eagle Methodist Church sought permission to hold a sunrise service on the site on Easter morning. The cross, although never cemented into...
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Joe Sullivan, pipe in hand, standing on the tracks at Kent.