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3. Lyon Ranch
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Photo postcard of the Judd Lyon Ranch in Yarmony Park, about 1940. Lyon homesteaded in 1909, his closest neighbor being John F. Hudson, two and a half miles to the northeast. McCoy was eight miles to the southwest and had the closest store and post office.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
4. 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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The George Harris Ranch house in Yarmony Park in 1920. George married Julia Koski in 1915 and they filed on a 320 acre homestead in the southeast corner of Yarmony Park in 1916. "Julia's half brother and sisters, Frank, Sophia and Mary of Denver spent part of every year with them. Mary attended Yarmony School for several years in the early 1920's." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.290
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"This bunkhouse is all that remains of a good set of ranch buildings that were on the Dave Bailey place at the mouth of Yarmony Creek. The two story log house that Dave and his wife Molly lived in for over twenty years and Tony and Rebecca Johannbroer occupied for another twenty was destroyed by fire about 1937. -- McCoy Memoirs p.134
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Barbara Clark, Eagle County teacher, with Daisy, the horse, at the Bar-Gay Ranch near Edwards, Colorado (at the mouth of Squaw Creek). Ring, the dog (previously owned by Tom Pearch), is standing next to Mrs. Clark.
The Bar-Gay Ranch was originally the Hawley place. Gaylord and Barbara Clark bought the house and outbuildings; the land was a school section which they leased for 99 years.
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"Among the last to homestead on the Conger Mesa, Martin Schomers built the back part of this house in 1913, the same year that he and Pauline Johnson were married. They spent a part of their honeymoon here and during the ensuing years their three children were born. Others who lived here for short periods were Leonard and Maude Hudson and their two children; Helen and Darrell Ray; and Art and Helen Hudson and family. For many years, rats have been...
16. Buerger Place
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"Always referred to as the Harris house, it has had considerable face lifting since the large Harris family occupied it for twenty eight years or from 1917 to 1945. Quite a number of people lived here before and since the Harrises. Earlier residents were the Towers, Porters and Robinsons." -- McCoy Memoirs p.173
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]