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2. Horn Ranch
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"The Horn ranch house on Rock Creek, two and one half miles above McCoy, as it was in 1917. Homesteaders Alvin Hart and Rooks built the cabin with the fireplace, the rest was added on by the Horns. The low building on the right was the kitchen, the two story addition had two bedrooms upstairs and the ground floor was the living room, the fireplace room served as a bunkhouse for ranch hands. Shortly after Arthur Horn's death, Mrs. Horn had that...
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"An early day log dwelling a little similar to the Wohler house, but built by Tom Elliott on his Mother's homestead. Besides the Elliott family who lived here over twenty years, succeeding occupants were the Grays, Grohs, Grimes, Kaysers and Holts.
The dirt roof building on the extreme left was the original building and the rest were additions. The logs in this building and many other in the vicinity are as sound today as in the day they were cut...
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"At the former Groh ranch on Rock Creek above McCoy in 1916 [photo dated 1917]. Here are: George Shepard, John Brooks [Jr.], Jessie [Brooks] Groh and Harry Groh. George, a faithful worker had been associated with the Brooks family for many years." -- McCoy Memoirs p.124
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Tom Elliott place on Rock Creek. The ranch house is on the right with corrals and barn at left. The ranch is in Routt County, two miles north of McCoy. Irrigation was from the creek in order to grow supplementary feed for winter.s
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
6. McCoy lane
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"The McCoy lane looking west. This 1912 photo [says 1911 on verso of photo] shows the front part of the Hotel on the left, [on the right] the blacksmith shop, the big red barn and the front of the old log barn and beyond it, the bridge across Rock Creek. The big barn, approximately fifty by sixty feet in size, was of frame construction and built by C. H. McCoy in 1902. It had stalls for twenty horses and a loft that held ten tons of loose hay....
9. Horn Ranch
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"The Horn ranch house on Rock Creek, two and one half miles above McCoy, as it was in 1917. Homesteaders Alvin Hart and Rooks built the cabin with the fireplace, the rest was added on by the Horns. The two bedrooms upstairs and the ground floor was the living room, the fireplace room served as a bunkhouse for ranch hands. Shortly after Arthur Horn's death, Mrs. Horn had that part of the building removed. The Pete Horn family lived here from 1890 to...
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Mae Grimes giving a treat to a dog on the porch of the former Elliott Ranch, August 1938. "The Elliott Ranch was held by the Ellis Cattle Company for a few years and the company then sold to Frank Groh and his son, Harry. They transferred it to Jack and Mae Grimes and Ralph Kayser obtained it after Jack died in 1947. The present owner [1977] is Betty Holt." -- McCoy Memoirs p.112
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
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"This well constructed log building is located on the original Gore Road, between Toponas and Kremmling. Called the Rock Creek Ranch Road House, it was built by Jim Gates about 1900 and served as a stage stop with rooms and meals for travelers. Both floors had a porch running the length of the building. The Gates family operated it until about 1906 and then left it and the furniture which was soon stolen. About 1915 Dr. Henderson, a chiropractor,...