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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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Shortly after they were married, Jack and Martha Sigler came out from Denver and homesteaded land in the Volcano area. Their first abode was a cellar or dug-out at an abandoned railroad construction camp, but later they buit this house north of Volcano, one section at a time. Like many other homesteaders, their lives were much too short to see their dreams fulfilled." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 304
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
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"When Renee and Charlotte Wolf bought the Ebert Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1973, this is how the house looked to them. It was built by Rudolph Ebert about 1912 or right after the homestead cabin was burned to the ground. Besides the Ebert family, others who lived here were: Walter and Ethel Evans, Frank and Leila Ault, Pete and Juanita Johnsen, Joe and Mary Nichols then Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brown, who abandoned it for twenty years.: -- McCoy Memoirs p....
5) The Laytons
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The Laytons, Jack and Ella, in front of their home in Eagle, Colorado. Appears to on Capital Street, next to Ping (Nogal) Hotel. The Laytons were early homesteaders in the Eagle Valley and were active in mining and ranching.
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The home of Jack & Ella Layton in Eagle, Colorado. The Laytons arrived in the Eagle Valley around 1890.
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"The main part of this ranch house on the Black Mountain Ranch was built by Anton "Tony" Johannbroer in 1910, and the addition on the right by John Ambos in 1928. Tony and his wife Rebecca only occupied it a few weeks, the Butler family eight years, Amboses twenty, then the Atwoods for several years. Mrs. Ambos planted the two spruce trees in 1926, but they were removed sometime after this photo was taken in 1952." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 249
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