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Jack Flynn posing in start position next to the railroad tracks at Kent. Station buildings are in the background
Eagle Valley Enterprise Mar. 9, 1917 p.8: "Invitations were received from Rifle and Glenwood to participate in track and field meets to be held in these towns in May. Both invitations will be accepted and we expect to give some of our rivals a run for honors. In Flynn and McHatton we have two good track men and expect to work Borah, Ruden...
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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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The Flynn men on Christmas day 1917 at Kent. Railroad track is at right foreground. Inscription reads: "Flynn & Co." William R. Flynn died in 1905 so the older gentleman is not he.
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Bill, on left, and Dan Flynn, with their catch after a grouse hunt. Also a very good example of fingerprints left on the right hand side of the photo during handling.
27) Road to Kent
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The road to the Kent section house (in the distance), later the property of Leonard Horn.
28) Charles Crawford
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Charles Crawford sitting on the disk harrow at Kent. The harrow was pulled by a horse team.
29) Don
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Don at Kent, standing next to a velocipede. "The velocipede has one other wheel attached on the other side [not visible]. One would sit on the seat, where the buckets are and hand operate by using the handle. Don most likely was a lineman, maintaining or working on the telegraph line or Western Union line. It is possible he was involved with track maintenance but my first guess would be lineman. Of note is a red flag rolled up next to the handle....
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Left to right: John Flynn, Elmer Lundgren, Cantrall [summer visitor from Oklahoma], and John Cowden.
31) Foxie
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"Foxie" [otherwise unidentified] climbing the bridge over the Eagle at Kent. Three pines visible in the right background.
32) Lester Watson
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Lester Watson seated on a grain drill with a two-horse team at Kent, 1919. [Equipment identification by Stuart Dykstra.] The three pines marking Kent are on the hillside in the distance.
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The Western Union work train at Kent section house, 1918, field in foreground.
34) Sherwood Bridge
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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...
35) Visiting
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Mrs. Brow and Mrs. Hill with Harriet Hill and Charolett Shultz standing in the yard next to the stationhouse in Kent, 1918.
37) Cement bridge
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The cement bridge near Kent, looking downstream along the Eagle River toward the west. Kent is most likely Leonard Horn's place.
38) Horsing around
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Balancing on the fence posts at the Kent section house are, from left, Hazel Harris, with Dan Flynn in front of her, and Kate Flynn. Icicles are on the eaves and snow is on the ground.
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Earnest [Cook] in uniform and Billy [Flynn] standing at the section house at Kent.
