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"Built in 1887 the Quinlan Homestead cabin east of Dotsero is still standing. Elizabeth, Mary and Gertrude were born under its dirt roof. The family only lived here a few years before locating near McCoy." -- McCoy Memoirs p.141
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Front view of a remaining cabin on Alfred Benson’s property on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. Originally, there were several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site. This photo was taken on July 26, 2012.
Sarah Mabel Brown was born in Polk City Iowa July 14, 1877 and her family later moved to Chicago. She was the last Fulford school teacher 1909-1912. She went by Mabel S. Brown. She met surveyor/miner William (Billy) Colerick (1869-1944) in Fulford. She died Oct.1, 1964, age 87 in Los Angeles Ca. She would have been about 80 in the 1957 photo of Mabel's Madhouse.
Mabel bought and owned the Fulford cabin in her name alone (1927). The original 1893...
Jane and Joe Dice sitting on the front step of Melissa Larsen Tresize' log cabin (across from Lower Brush Creek School). This is the location of School House Ranch today (2007). Both children wear hats.
1952: Carbonate, Colorado, showing two of the old mining cabins in the left background. Man walking across field in middleground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Mabel Colerick at the back door of "Mabel's Madhouse" that Dick Turgeon built for her after the 1949 fire. Early 1950's.
The temporary "step" nailed on the roof boards indicates that some roof construction was still in progress. -- Rich Perske Aug. 2014
Three men and a woman standing on the porch of a log cabin. Dog in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
"I think it would be best to label this as 'homestead on Hernage Creek' rather than 'Hernage Homestead.' I checked the patent records and they do not indicate that Henry Hernage homesteaded this specific parcel. Rather, he homesteaded clser to the mouth of Brush Creek. ... Location: T5S R84W Sec. 21, NW1/4 SW1/4 A patent search indicated the earliest record on this property is a homestead claim by Issac Kalbaugh on 160 acres in 1912. However,...
The Schlegel family standing in front of the cabin on the Piney.
Left to right: Phoebe Haney McKinney, Violet Schlegel, Ruth Schlegel, Wesley Schlegel, Phoebe Elvira McKinney Schlegel holding Clarence Schlegel.
"Judge Lyle named his four guest cabins after Conger Mesa pioneers. This one is the Conger, others are the Theisen, Butler and Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 251
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Deep Lake Ranger Station on the Flat Tops (White River National Forest, Garfield County). Log buildings and corral visible with outhouse further up the hill.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]