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2. Assay office
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Looking down on the Sherwood bridge from the Sherwood quarry drum. Hwy 6 is at the top, the Eagle River is flowing under the Sherwood bridge and I-70 is at the bottom.
At the turn of the century, major routes in the Colorado mountains were steep, rocky grades, little more than wagon tracks. By 1910, cars were becoming more prominent but Colorado roads were in terrible condition. That year, the State Highway Commission established Highway 10 from...
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Original Avon School before addition, taken prior to 1915. The horse barn has not been built. Fence surrounding school yard visible. Shows the Eagle River on right with "water spruce" hanging over the river and Johnson Lane (named for homesteader Joe Johnson) that was the road into Bachelor Gulch. The road eventually became Highway 6, located about 300 yards west of the current Avon Road. View is to the west. This picture was hanging on the...
10. Horn Ranch
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The camel-back bridge over the Eagle River on U.S. Hwy 6 & 24, approximately 5-6 miles east of Eagle, Colorado.Behind the train, is the Leonard Horn ranch with ranch houses to the left of the tall pine tree at center. Rube Creek flows by the ranch houses. The dirt road at left goes to the ranch.
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Red Cliff Bridge on U.S. Highway 24, across the canyon of the Eagle River at Red Cliff, Colorado. Completed on July 28, 1941; dedicated and opened to travel on August 3, 1941. Dimensions: 470 ft. long; 209 ft. high; 30-ft. roadway and two 18-inch curbs. The Red Cliff Bridge was entered into the National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 1985, in recognition of its contribution to the heritage of the state of Colorado
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The Eagle River at Edwards [Wilmore stop]. Lettuce shed next to the railroad with the old water tank in the background. Benny Klatt's home and small store on Highway 6. Benny Klatt was killed by his brother-in-law, William Wellington, over the ownership of the cabin in which Wellington lived.