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62. Avon School
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The Avon School with front and rear additions. Visible to the northeast are the playground (with slide) and horse barn. These were torn down in about 1948 to widen Highway 6. Some snow on ridge in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Sweetwater School, known also as Middle Sweetwater School or Gannon School. The teacher was Myrtie Hockett (later, Mrs. James Stephens). Snow on ground and on the roof of the log school with a path visible in right foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The students of Brush Creek School lined up at the side of the building with their teacher, Edna Pearch at far left.
From left: No.1 Bill Long; 3 Mayme Long; 7 Roy Long; 8 Ed Long
Mayme Long married Alvin Rule. Roy Long married Frances Rule.
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"The Conger Mesa School of 1917 was a new frame building located about a half mile north east of the Conger cabin. Some of the earlier settlers of McCoy had never expected this to come about, after their predictions that the Conger Mesa Ditch would go broke and leave. In this school group are, in the back row, Earl Abbett, Martha White (the teacher), Ruth Henry, Katherine Ebert, Florence Henry and Lillian Johannbroer. In front, Roger Butler, Frank...
67. Darrell Barnes
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Studio photograph of Darrell Barnes, his junior class picture 1939, Eagle High School. Mr. Barnes was born in a "log cabin five miles north of Eagle on December 19, 1922." [Eagle Valley Enterprise Oct. 1, 1981] He attended school in Eagle and then Mesa College. He was employed by the New Jersey Zinc Company in Gilman and assisted in their other offices.
70. Eagle School
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Finishing work being done on the Eagle grade/high school building. Caption reads: "New school house, Eagle, cost $20,000."
"In 1914, District No. 4 voted a $19,300 bond issue for a new two story school building on a block of land purchased from H. Dice. That fall the high school was started with 10 pupils, and Mr. J. P. Adams was the teacher. The old building was so crowded that the last half of the year the high school was held in an old harness...
73. "Skeet" Koger
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David Marion "Skeet" Koger, standing in the rain next to the old Jesse Sherman house. Photo printed April 11, 1940 at Ping's Station.
"He arrived in Eagle County in 1899 and was first employed in the now nonexistent Hockett Sawmill on Hardscrabble south of Eagle. Within the next few years following, Skeet worked around Eagle vicinity, joining the Sherman Brothers Red Mountain Ranch east of Eagle in the early 1900s, becoming a permanent member of...
77. Margaret Donegan
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The second Malta school house, south of Leadville, which operated from 1902-1945, now part of the Leadville Historic District.
"My Uncle Bob worked down in the canyon at the Gillman Mill. My Uncle Bob and my Aunt Thelma, my Mother's sister, and their family lived in Red Cliff. On the Denver Public Library there is a picture of the Red Cliff Depot with icicles. When I showed this picture to my Cousin he said his Dad went by the depot on his way...