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Sarah Mabel Brown was born in Polk City Iowa July 14, 1877 and her family later moved to Chicago. She was the last Fulford school teacher 1909-1912. She went by Mabel S. Brown. She met surveyor/miner William (Billy) Colerick (1869-1944) in Fulford. She died Oct.1, 1964, age 87 in Los Angeles Ca. She would have been about 80 in the 1957 photo of Mabel's Madhouse.
Mabel bought and owned the Fulford cabin in her name alone (1927). The original 1893...
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Mabel Colerick at the back door of "Mabel's Madhouse" that Dick Turgeon built for her after the 1949 fire. Early 1950's.
The temporary "step" nailed on the roof boards indicates that some roof construction was still in progress. -- Rich Perske Aug. 2014
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Sarah Mabel Brown was born in Polk City Iowa July 14, 1877 and her family later moved to Chicago. She was the last Fulford school teacher 1909-1912. She went by Mabel S. Brown. She met surveyor/miner William (Billy) Colerick (1869-1944) in Fulford. She died Oct.1, 1964, age 87 in Los Angeles Ca. She would have been about 80 in the 1957 photo of Mabel's Madhouse.
Mabel bought and owned the Fulford cabin in her name alone (1927). The original 1893...
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Mabel Colerick bought and owned the Fulford cabin in her name alone (1927). The original 1893 cabin burned in 1949 and was rebuilt as Mabel's Madhouse in the early 1950s by Dick Turgeon.
That was the cabin Harvey Ickes inherited (we are not sure how). The 1972 photo of me, Mike, and Harvey Ickes [Easter Sunday] shows the west side of the former Colerick cabin in deep snow. The Ickes family still has the Mabel's Madhouse sign. -- Rich Perske,...
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Mabel Colerick bought and owned the Fulford cabin in her name alone (1927). The original 1893 cabin burned in 1949 and was rebuilt as Mabel's Madhouse in the early 1950s by Dick Turgeon.
That was the cabin Harvey Ickes inherited (we are not sure how).
This photo shows Mabel Colerick (71), Olive Gabelman, and an unidentified visiting couple at the front (north side) of the 1893 era log cabin -- Rich Perske, 2014
