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Barn in upper Bachelor Gulch (Howard property). The log structure is surrounded by a log fence. Discarded items in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"An early day barn on the Wash Holland ranch at Wolcott, Colorado." -- McCoy Memoirs p.332
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
3) Loading Hay
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Gulling Offerson loading hay into barn on bench above Beaver Creek. A two horse team, left foreground, is being used while a team of mules is visible in the left background. The mules are pulling the cables that are lifting the load of hay to the top of the stack. The view is looking east with the Avon "gypsum cliffs" to the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Sheephorn ranch, Eagle Co Colo."
Photo postcard showing ranch house, outhouse and barn in background.
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The Albert Betz Ranch, Gore Valley, viewed from Gore Creek. Buildings in the background are Fleming's Saw Mill. This is current day Vail, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Beaver near Eagle River. Lettuce shed and railroad siding in background. View is looking to the northeast at Swift Gulch from Emmett Nottingham's old place at Avon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
8) Dice Place
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The old Dice place up west Brush Creek. Barn, house and outbuildings are visible from the road through the fenceline. Road is not paved.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
10) Tom Wohler
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"Tom Wohler standing in front of his barn in 1912. The Wohler ranch had a first class set of ranch buildings and fences that Tom kept in good repair until a year or so before he passed away." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 131
"Fritz, Tom and Sarah Wohler came to Colorado from Pennsylvania in 1876 and settled at Leadville for 18 years. Tom was shift boss at the Johnny Mine and Sarah had a dress shop. They were married in Leadville in 1883.
In 1895 Tom and...
11) Judd Lyon Ranch
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"The buildings on the Lyon Hidden Valley Ranch are in a much better state of repair than any of the other deserted ranches in Yarmony Park, mainly due to the fact that it was occupied the longest. The road to the former John Hudson ranch a mile and a half distant goes through the gap on the left." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 279
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) North McCoy
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Looking north from McCoy Lane, with Rock Creek flowing through the tree line in the background. There are several log buildings, including a barn at midground. In front of the barn is a root cellar in the embankment.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The horse barn on the Charles B. McCoy ranch, photographed in 1970 by John Ambos.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
15) Sneve Ranch
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The William Johnson Ranch, formerly the Anthony Sneve Ranch on West Brush Creek. The patent on the ranch was established in 1911. The ranch was purchased by Edna Chambers in 1935. Chambers in turn sold the property to William S. and Nora Johnson in 1938. It is now the site for Sylvan Lake State Park. [A History of Sylvan Lake State Park, by Kathy Heicher]
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Barn on the Albert-Grange place built in 1912, rural El Jebel. The building has fallen down.
17) Nottingham Barn
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Old barn just west of the Emmett Nottingham place. The barn was probably built by Clyde Nottingham around 1908. Beaver Creek is to the left. The old Avon School is just right of center. The first Avon bridge is visible in the foreground in front of the school (west of current bridges about 100 yards and lower to the water). The Joe Smith house is to the right.
This bridge was probably built in the early 1900s. It was replaced by the second...
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Barn and fencing near the old farmstead once owned by Gulling Offerson. Unpaved road with visible rocks in foreground. Buck Creek is in the background and Swift Gulch is at far right. The site is just up the hill from the Avon general store.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
19) 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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Charles, Chet, John and William (father) Eaton (left to right) at McCoy Creek Ranch. Each Eaton is holding the reins of a horse and is standing in front of a log barn.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]