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Lizzie Hernage, 24, and her husband Henry were among the first pioneers to arrive in the valley, homesteading at the mouth of Brush Creek in 1882. On July 29, 1885 Henry and Lizzie were moving a herd of cattle across a rickety bridge over the Eagle River when the weight of the load caused the bridge to collapse. Lizzie drowned.
The grieving citizens of the pioneer community buried Lizzie Hernage on a sage-covered mesa overlooking the little settlement,...
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Standing on Hilltop Street [Sunset View Cemetery] looking north down Howard St., toward Castle Peak in Eagle, Colorado. Photo was developed April 1963.
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Lizzie Hernage, 24, and her husband Henry were among the first pioneers to arrive in the valley, homesteading at the mouth of Brush Creek in 1882. On July 29, 1885 Henry and Lizzie were moving a herd of cattle across a rickety bridge over the Eagle River when the weight of the load caused the bridge to collapse. Lizzie drowned.
The grieving citizens of the pioneer community buried Lizzie Hernage on a sage-covered mesa overlooking the little settlement,...
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Standing on Hilltop Street [Sunset View Cemetery] looking west toward Gypsum in Eagle, Colorado. The road at the very bottom is Hilltop Street; the road just beyond that and lower is Capitol St./Brush Creek. Photo was developed April 1963.
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Mid-1950s photo of the Eagle ski tow, located above Sunset View Cemetery in Eagle, Colorado, on the Cole Black Ranch. Some call the ski hill "Cemetery Hill."
The boy standing on the top of the mountain looking at the camera, in the black coat, is Skip (Melvin) Chambers, son of Glen Chambers. Immediately below him on the hill in the reddish sweater is John Buchholz. The girl farthest down the hill in the red sweater is Susan Koonce.
The ski tow,...