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"The Horn ranch house on Rock Creek, two and one half miles above McCoy, as it was in 1917. Homesteaders Alvin Hart and Rooks built the cabin with the fireplace, the rest was added on by the Horns. The low building on the right was the kitchen, the two story addition had two bedrooms upstairs and the ground floor was the living room, the fireplace room served as a bunkhouse for ranch hands. Shortly after Arthur Horn's death, Mrs. Horn had that...
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The Howard Van Horn house, log construction, in McCoy, Colorado. There is a rocking chair on the front porch, a screen door, and a second story entrance accessible by stairs. "Howard and Mattie Van Horn and daughters came from Edwards about 1917 looking for a location. They bought part of the former Groh ranch from Hollis Brooks. This property adjoined the old D.O. Bailey place on the south, about 30 acres were under cultivation under a ditch but...
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Bud Gates house on Derby Mesa Loop built in 1940; gabled dormer windows on second floor.
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"Among the last to homestead on the Conger Mesa, Martin Schomers built the back part of this house in 1913, the same year that he and Pauline Johnson were married. They spent a part of their honeymoon here and during the ensuing years their three children were born. Others who lived here for short periods were Leonard and Maude Hudson and their two children; Helen and Darrell Ray; and Art and Helen Hudson and family. For many years, rats have been...
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Another building at 5444 Colorado River Road built in 1919.
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Tom Knight standing in front of his home in 1959. [print copy date June 1984] "Thomas Knight was born near French Lick, Ind. May 28, 1886 and completed his education at Central Normal College, Ill. He first came to Colorado with his parents and brother, Robert in 1908. ... He first came to Eagle County in 1929 from Canon City and went to work for the Empire Zinc...until his retirement in 1949." --Eagle Valley Enterprise Aug. 11, 1960
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Catherine "Katie" Lemley Gates and J. P. Gates with their grandchildren. From left, Katie Gates is holding Albert, Ruth, James P. Gates is holding Mary. In front, James and Frank Gates.
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"Always referred to as the Harris house, it has had considerable face lifting since the large Harris family occupied it for twenty eight years or from 1917 to 1945. Quite a number of people lived here before and since the Harrises. Earlier residents were the Towers, Porters and Robinsons." -- McCoy Memoirs p.173 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Anderson home, built in 1946 at 5444 Colorado River Road.
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"The former ranch house on Yarmony Creek, where Charley and Stella McCoy lived nearly thirty-five years and their daughters Ethel and Mildred were born in." -- McCoy Memoirs p.104 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Moorehead place on Sheephorn Creek, built in 1899. An automobile and unidentified man at left.
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"The former Gus Hoyt house near Radium, 1917. The children were all born before this was built in 1917." -- McCoy Memoirs p.201 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The McPhee-Lindner ranch house built in 1889 on Sheephorn Creek. Two unidentified men are in the yard; a whetstone is visible. Ladder on roof for access.
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House on the mesa above El Jebel near the Garfield County line, built in 1934. Torn down prior to the 1980s.
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Goldman property ('78 Trust) in Eagle; built in 1942.
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"This house on the former Adam Stifel ranch isn't quite the same as it was when they homesteaded six miles west of McCoy [Antelope area] shortly after 1900. At that time it was a one room cabin with a dirt roof, but shortly after Reuben was born the two story building was added on and later the lean-to on the east side." -- McCoy Memoirs p.163 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Webster cabin at Lake Creek, built in 1914. Woodpile in foreground.
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"This was once the home of Elliott Maxwell and wife until Perry Ault bought the place in 1908. He and his wife Lelah and their family of ten lived here until the children were grown, married and had homes of their own. Mr. and Mrs. Ault retired from active farming about 1950 and leased the ranch to their son-in-law, Walter Evans, before buying a house in Kremmling and moving there." -- McCoy Memoirs p.160 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by...
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The Sam and Betty Carter home at Carterville at Squaw Creek. The house was built in the 1950s. "When Sam and Russell grew up, they fell in love with the Terry sisters, Betty and Wanda, who had lived at both Squaw and Lake Creeks. After their marriages, the four built cabins at Carterville and raised another generation of Carter children" -- June Simonton, The First Pioneers: a Squaw Creek History, p. 27 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by...
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"This attractive house on Yarmony Creek below Copper Spur, was built and occupied by Dr. J. H. Cole until his death in 1947. Since then, Roy and Jean Vawter, who was the Doctor's adopted daughter, have mad it their home." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 208 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]