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c.1930: Dad Wellington (in hat) standing at barbed wire fence. Mule hitched to wagon; reins hitched to fence post. Postmaster D. C. Thomas, Edwards, CO, sitting in wagon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"This building, as it appears today [1974], became the Copper Spur store and Post Office after the Wymans left, Frank Bedell as Post Master and store proprietor. The Bedell family lived here until Frank's death in 1956." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 149
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"There were many small post offices in Colorado in the horse and buggy days for the simple reason that travel was slow. A post office was established at Copper Spur on Yarmony Creek four miles southeast of McCoy in 1920 and named Coppertown with Ed Lindvold as the postmaster. About 1922 Lindvold disappeared with the post office funds and Kenneth Wyman was appointed to succeed him. ... In 1928 the Post Office was re-named Copper Spur which name it...
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Marie Warren, her daughter-in-law, Lorna Hargreaves Warren (married to Everett), and Johanna Fear, posing in a front yard. Marie Warren worked as a postal clerk in Red Cliff from 1946 to 1959. She also reported news of the Red Cliff community for the Eagle Valley Enterprise.
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Studio photo of May Dale Thomas, Eagle Postmistress. She was the wife of Judge L. R. Thomas and mother of Louise Thomas Christensen.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
6) Mayme Price
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Studio portrait of Mayme Stremme Price wearing a lace collared dress and necklace.
Accompanying material inscription: "Aunt Mayme"
Who's Who in Colorado, 1938, p. 434: B. Gypsum, Colo., Oct. 10, 1887; ed pub sch Gypsum, Eagle Co HS; m Fred A. Price, June 1927 Glenwood Springs; 1905-1935 US Postoffice, Gypsum; 1911 to date (1938) town clerk, Gypsum; Rebekah Lodge Gypsum ch (past noble grand); Luth; Rep; res, Gypsum; office, Theo Stremme Store, Gypsum....
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"One of the more unique mail boxes around belongs to Mrs. Lucille Riggle, Clerk in the Eagle Post Office."--verso
Located at the suth west corner of 5th and McIntire Streets, in Eagle, Colorado, in the 1980s.
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1920s: Interior of Stremme's Store and Post Office in Gypsum, Colorado, with owner, Theodore Stremme, and clerk ,Thelma Anderson Wilson. Cash register and scale on counter with canned goods on shelving behind the counter. Lighting arrangement clearly visible. Clothing (pants) stacked in right foreground.
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c.1932: W. H. "Dad" Wellington shown in mail wagon, with his donkey, "Jack" standing next to the railroad crossing sign at Edwards. Lettuce shed is on the far left, with stacks of crates. Wellington hauled mail from the railroad to the Edwards Post Office twice a day for over 42 yrs.
"He has driven this route, carrying the mail for forty-four years, since May 13, 1895, without missing a single trip. He makes three each day. He calls his mule...
10) W. H. Wellington
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"The old mail carrier at Edwards, W. H. Wellington." -- Esther Klatt
"Dad" Wellington began carrying the mail between the post office in Edwards, Colorado, and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad station in Edwards on May 13, 1895. He was scheduled for 14 trips per week at a distance of 2,264 feet per trip, using his buckboard pulled by "Faithful Jack." Wellington claimed it was the only mule mail route in the United States."
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Grand Junction MSC Dispatch Nov./Dec. 1984 p.8: "While the United States Postal Service held a ceremony to introduce the McGruff stamp at the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., on September 26, 1984, Eagle County had its own ceremony. Eight postmasters and Sheriff A. J. Johnson gathered in Edwards for the celebration along with their special guest, McGruff. It was a good day for promoting awareness of crime...
