Buildings
Showing
1 - 11
of 11
, query time: 0.01s
Format:
Image
Cabin belonging to Charles Fredrick Eichaker at the mineral mill at Cross Creek. The Knight and Beck familes used the cabin at various points in time.
"Even had an outhouse"--Angela Beck.
[information from Buster Beck]
Bill Burnett mentions Charlie Eyacher [sic.] in The Eagle on Battle Mountain at Gilman, Colorado and My Life as I Remember, although Bill locates the cabin at Fall Creek p.7: "Old Charlie had a house on the far side, eastside,...
Format:
Image
MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground.
"The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
Format:
Image
The Lloyd cabin at Lake Charles viewed through the trees.
"In addition to incredible high-mountain scenery, both Lake Charles and Mystic Island Lake offered some great fishing for cutthroat trout. They remain popular destinations for backpackers and hikers. By the late 1940s, the cabins, weathered by high-mountain snows, had fallen into disrepair. The Forest Service dismantled the remaining buildings." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.93
Format:
Image
"It is a 1948 view looking east into Gold Basin from the trail on the rim where George Burgess and I studied the cliffs to spot the trail down and judge if the pack horse could handle it. The Morgan cabin we stayed in is well portrayed.
It was here we tied the horse to a boulder with an insufficient knot while we went down and tested it out. The trail was largely obliterated by rock creep and fall, but we thought the horse could do it with our...
Format:
Image
Abandoned cabins of Holy Cross City in the foreground, mountains in background. [photo damaged with ink]
7) Skyland
Format:
Image
Cabins on the trail to Lake Charles (out of Yeoman Park up Brush Creek). Lloyd's owned Skyland at Lake Charles, a popular destination for fishing. By the 1940s, the cabins had fallen into disrepair and the Forest Service removed them.
Format:
Image
"Judge Lyle named his four guest cabins after Conger Mesa pioneers. This one is the Conger, others are the Theisen, Butler and Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 251
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Jolly family cabin on the Flat Tops (at the head of Grizzly Creek) during a fishing trip in 1950. Sod roof on the cabin. Buster Beck, Frank Robinson and Chuck Colby participated.
Format:
Image
1933-40: Front and side view of the rock Shelter House on Notch Mountain, opposite the Holy Cross. "This is the end of the trail for pilgrimagers [sic]." Built by the CCC. Door and window shaded by overhangs of timber and shingle. Foreground composed of rocky ground. (Labeled 283452)
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
11) Homestead cabin
Format:
Image
Last of the homesteader's cabins, northwest side of Castle Peak, taken in 1988.
