c.1900: One Room School Building. Teacher is Miss Willits (now Mrs. Randall). She was the teacher about 1900. Students (38) are arranged on school steps in 4 tiers with the teacher seated in the middle of the top tier. Top row, from left: Jim Tague, Harvey Collins, Stewart Collins, Sue Bowland, Irene Willitts, Edna Collard, Artemis Dumant, Nell Walsh, Ollie Graham. Third row, from left: Blanche Gay, Elmer States, Alvin Mallory, Robert Collins,...

Eagle County Historical Society volunteer and President, Kathy Heicher, stands in the refurbished Bellyache school. The school had deteriorated into a pile of logs when Jack Oleson decided to move the building back to its original location and reconstruct the building. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.

"The teacher and girl students of McCoy's first High School of 1925. They are [from left]: Dora Ault, Florence Panting, Ethel Brooks, Mary Quinlan (teacher), Emma Panting and Mabel Van Horn. The building was just a made over shed and supplied by Mr. Van Horn, who was living on the former Frank Groh ranch at that time. The school equipment would probably draw a laugh from one of today's teachers but the students who graduated are comparable to the...