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Jack Flynn posing in start position next to the railroad tracks at Kent. Station buildings are in the background
Eagle Valley Enterprise Mar. 9, 1917 p.8: "Invitations were received from Rifle and Glenwood to participate in track and field meets to be held in these towns in May. Both invitations will be accepted and we expect to give some of our rivals a run for honors. In Flynn and McHatton we have two good track men and expect to work Borah, Ruden...
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Remains of the Sherwood quarry drum and pulley structure on the Horn Ranch property in Red Canyon. The drum is visible from I-70. Stone from this quarry was used to build the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.
"The archive of the Colorado Historical Museum offers a bit more information about the quarry site. A typewritten transcript titled 'Memories of Eagle County in the 1880s,' authored by Amy M. Bowen, the daughter of Avon area homesteader John...
24. Eagle River
27. Road to Kent
28. Charles Crawford
29. Don
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Don at Kent, standing next to a velocipede. "The velocipede has one other wheel attached on the other side [not visible]. One would sit on the seat, where the buckets are and hand operate by using the handle. Don most likely was a lineman, maintaining or working on the telegraph line or Western Union line. It is possible he was involved with track maintenance but my first guess would be lineman. Of note is a red flag rolled up next to the handle....
31. Foxie
32. Lester Watson
34. Sherwood Bridge
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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...