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A 1950s Eagle County Fair project being judged.

2. Rodeo

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No details or dates have been provided, although this appears to be a rodeo of some sort near the fairgrounds. Cars line the fenceline with people sitting on the front. An entrance/exit is visible on the left side of the photograph. A group of men on horses stand in the back of the circle.
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The Sherman Ranch house with a front porch and side addition. Barn is visible at far left.
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post-1902: Front view of the Methodist Church and parsonage, Eagle, Colorado. The Church was organized under the name of Christ Methodist Church. W. W. Winne, who preached (1899-1900) but was not an ordained minister, arranged for a five hundred dollar loan from the Denver Missionary Society. With this money and donated labor, the one-room church was completed in July 1900; the parsonage was built in 1902. [Title supplied from catalog prepared...
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Showing a livestock project at the Eagle County Fair in the 1960s.
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Before Sylvan Lake became the state park we know it as today, it was a lake located on the William Johnson ranch. A barn and possibly the ranch home are pictured here.
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Disk harvester pulled by a team of horses is harvesting potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Lois Anderson holding flowers in front of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Anderson was a schoolteacher in Eagle.
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Helen Hart (Allen) was born in 1901. She became the wife of Joseph Dewey "Joe" Allen. The photograph is dated 1920, making her approximately 19-20 years old here.
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Sherman Ranch house with several additions on front.
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Leah Blotiaux (Allen) sits with her three boys. Joseph Dewey "Joe Dick" Allen is pictured standing on the left.
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The family poses for a photograph together at the wedding of Ross Chambers and Jessie Fair in 1967. From left to right: Donald Chambers, Dale Hibbs (holding twin babies Kelly & Michael), Ross Chambers, Jessie Fair, Ladonna Fair-Waggoner, Carl Waggoner. The Waggoner children are in front: Michael Carl, Chrisi, and Susan.
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A house on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Three women are sitting on the front porch.
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Clarence Fair leans on a farm tool in his overalls with the children. The smaller children are Ross and Alice Chambers' children, Donna Louise and Donald, and Ladonna Fair stands in a hat. The Fair family lived and worked on the Chambers Ranch at this time. Clarence Fair also drove a dairy delivery truck for the Chambers family.
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Ladonna Fair is pictured in the middle row, third from the right (not including Miss Hale). The class is pictured in the gymnasium of the Eagle School.
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The Yost boys, George & Freddie, are pictured on a Yost family Christmas card. George was 2 years old at the time.
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The Sherman Brothers Ranch house with Gertrude and children posed on front porch. Barns visible at left. "Jesse Sherman and his wife, Gertrude, often entertained nieces and newphews and children from town. This cement-block home was the primary Sherman residence. Several other houses on the ranch were used for the families that helped to work the ranch." --Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.47 The house was 4 miles east of Eagle, approximately where...
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