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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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The original Thomas homestead in Beaver Creek (Upper Neck). Standing in front of the house, from left to right: unknown man, John ThomasMabel and Mary (mother), Thomas (standing) Cliff and Charley Thomas seated in Front, Aunt and Uncle (Tom) Norris.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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John L. Thomas, in suit and tie.
"Around 1904, John and Mary Thomas, from Indian, homestead on the slopes above the present village site (Beaver Creek) with son Cliff and daughter Mabel. Two years later Charlie was born at the cabin, with a midwife helping. The homases lived in the valley until 1918, left for a year, and returned to take up ranching along the Eagle River."--p. 47 Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June B. Simonton.
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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.]
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View of the Offerson house and porch. Dated Sept. 28, 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Formerly Dan Koprinikar's home in Edwards, suspected to be the pre-1898 residence of the John Howard family. Woman and girl in front of house may be Mrs. Howard and Ethel. Bicycle on porch. Hay stacks in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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John Bunker pushing a lettuce planter on the Offerson Ranch.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Rows of potato plants on the Offerson Ranch. Inscription states: "Another view of the spud patch in 1929."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Threshing equipment with two men operating the machinery on the Offerson Ranch (near the weaning sheds on Wayne Creek).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Leota Nottingham and Maybelle Robertson in the yard of the Emmett Nottingham residence. Maybelle is pulling Leota. There is fencing and a Case tractor in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
