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62) Edwards School
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Students standing next to Edwards School circa 1908-1910. The girl on the left, second row from the top, is believed to be Esther L. Klatt.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1971: Gore Creek School, moved to Ford Park in Vail by Gore Creek Preservation Society.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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John Wesley Philips, Rhoda Rockwood's father, who was instrumental in building the Gore Creek School in 1886 (circa). Rhoda attended the school which met for only three months, in the summer. She crossed three creeks to get there. There is a dog at the right side of the photo.
For more information see Simonton, June. Vail: Story of a Colorado Mountain Valley, p.38.
65) Edwards School
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Edwards School in 1976; no longer in use.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Back view of the teacherage at Derby Mesa Schoolhouse. There appears to have been additional structures or an addition to the building between 1933 and 1980 (extension in the leftside of the photograph). In 1980, the building was being used as a tool shed.
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"Yarmony Park school, 1922. Buster Gilbert, Ila and Edith Babcock, Mary Koski and Ola Garrett." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 50
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
69) Avon School
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The Avon School after the addition. The front was extended and the belfry was added. The addition to the back has not yet been done which dates the photo as 1920-21. A group of students is seated at the side of the building.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Site of the Lower Sweetwater School (also known as the Jackson School). Building was torn down in the late 1940's.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Original Avon School before addition, taken prior to 1915. The horse barn has not been built. Fence surrounding school yard visible. Shows the Eagle River on right with "water spruce" hanging over the river and Johnson Lane (named for homesteader Joe Johnson) that was the road into Bachelor Gulch. The road eventually became Highway 6, located about 300 yards west of the current Avon Road. View is to the west. This picture was hanging on the...
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"The Antelope School and teacherage on Antelope Creek as they appeared in 1921." -- McCoy Memoirs p.46
The frame construction Antelope School building, completed in 1917, which replaced the original log school building completed in 1912. The log building became the teacherage. Some of the teachers at the Antelope School were "Leila Ferguson, Joan Funk, Mildred Sayre, Alma Slattery, Margie Harbaugh, Marion Conley, Maude Stratton Smith, Tracy Hatch,...
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1940s: The children attending Wolcott School (sixteen children), lined up along the side of the building. Two windows and a door are visible.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Yarmony Park school of 1924. Dorothy Slathakis, Robert Laman, Ila Babcock, Ola Garrett, Alice Laman.
In front are: Charles Babcock, Hilda and Fred Laman. Six years later the school was discontinued for lack of pupils." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 51
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mrs. Gould's class at the Canyon School in Upper Gypsum School District No. 5.
76) Spencer Family
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Elizabeth Spencer and her husband, with Buddy Spencer at leaft and Martha Fox Spencer at right. Mrs. Spencer taught the upper grades at Burns School District #9 in 1954-55. Her husband drove the school bus. They adopted the Fox girls.
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Front entrance of the Eagle County High School. One chimney visible at roofline.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The abandoned Gypsum Canyon School in 1976, which was part of School District No. 5, Upper Gypsum.
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August 1974 photo of Gore Creek Schoolhouse before it was moved to Ford Park in Vail, Colorado, by the Gore Creek Preservation Society. Two people are in the field at far right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
80) Sheephorn school
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"A pioneer school house on Sheephorn Creek. Located near the former Anghern ranch, it appeared to have been abandoned several years before this picture was taken in 1915." -- McCoy Memoirs p.316
[photo has date as 1914]
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
