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Road to Red Cliff with old bridge across the Eagle River before the Red Cliff Bridge was opened in 1941. Battle Mountain is on the left.
Photograph is labeled: "Roads end"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard showing the Red Cliff Bridge, opened in 1941. A Denver & Rio Grande train is coming from Red Cliff, headed toward Gilman, alongside the very clear Eagle River. At the left is the Lover's Leap cliffs. On the right is the cut in the lower rocks for the road down to Red Cliff.
At the center of the photo above the bridge can be seen the tailings from Hornsilver Mine with Butter Flats (clearing) just above that.
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Looking up at Highway 24 on Battle Mountain from the bridge at the end of Water Street. This was prior to the beginning of construction of the Red Cliff Arch Bridge.
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Looking down on the Red Cliff Bridge as the roadbed is being constructed. Lower road into Red Cliff is visible at lower right. Lover's Leap formation is on the left.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 11]
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An unidentified couple is sitting on Lover's Leap (Battle Mountain) with Red Cliff behind them.
Starting at the distant hillside behind the couple, we see Vic Dump Woods. Vic Dump had the contract from the Forest Service to cut timber on that hillside. The white "line" on the hillside, is the skid trail. Horses pulled logs to the skid trail where the logs were then sent down the skid trail. At the bottom of the trail, horses were again used to...
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Photo postcard [Sanborn W-H78] of Battle Mountain from the overpass at Red Cliff, Colorado. The image was taken prior to the construction of the Red Cliff bridge in 1941.
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The Red Cliff Bridge taken on October 1, 1995. The arch had been repainted green since its construction in 1941. Lover's Leap rock formation is on the left. The road at the bottom in the alternate access road to Red Cliff.
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Panoramic photo postcard, "Battle Mountain Road, Lovers Leap, Homestake Creek, Redcliffe, Colo. Sold by O. W. Daggett."
10) Lover's Leap
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Lover's Leap rock formation which marks the access to Red Cliff. Hoist on the top of the formation indicates the construction period for the Red Cliff arch bridge on Highway 24 (1938-1939). Railroad tracks in foreground.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 2]
11) Red Cliff Bridge
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Red Cliff Bridge at entrance to road into Red Cliff; opened to the public August, 1941 [see notes]. The pulley system at the top of Lovers' Leap used during the construction of the bridge is still visible at top left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Lover's Leap rock formation as seen from below. Hoist on top of the formation dates it somewhere between 1938 and 1939, just prior to construction of the Red Cliff arch bridge.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 3]
