Local History Photo Archive
The Eagle Valley Library District and the Eagle County Historical Society work together to bring you thousands of photographs, artifacts, and many other items from historical Eagle County and the surrounding areas on the Western Slope.
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- The Herald Lode
- Four miners stand and sit outside the entrance to the Herald lode. Located on Battle Mountain near Red Cliff, the Herald lode was discovered around 1880. The Herald lode was short lived, and by 1886, it was no longer producing ore. According to an article published in the "Rocky Mountain News" on May 12, 1880, "The strike recently made in the Herald lode at Red Cliff, promises to be a veritable bonanza on development. An expert … proclaims it to be an excellent piece of property, and one that will have no little tendency to induce more active prospecting in its vicinity and make the camp a point of attraction for a smelter. The property is opened up by a thirty-foot tunnel that in the face defines a lime floor as dipping at an angle of twenty-five degrees, into the hill. … Developments are being … made to ship the ore as soon as the condition of the roads will admit."
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- The Horns
- Arthur & Lulu Horn were ranchers in northern part of Eagle County in McCoy on the Rock Creek Ranch.
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- The J.W. Edwards family
- Emma Newby Edwards and Joe Edwards with their son, Joseph K. [Little Joe], who was born in 1924. The horse team is hitched to a wagon filled with lettuce crates.
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- The John F. Brooks Family
- Studio photograph of the John F. Brooks family taken in 1904. From left: John F. Brooks, Mrs. Brooks, Earl, Jessie, Hollis, twins Madgel [or Madjel] and Margie. John Jr. is not present in the photo. "Mr. and Mrs. Earl (Elsie) Brooks, children Ethel and Bud; Earl's sister, Jessie, and brother, Hollis left Minnesota in the spring of 1913 to move to McCoy. Their father, J. F. Brooks, had purchased the famed McCoy Hotel and most of the land and improvements and he wanted his sons to come West and take over the extensive holdings. ' --McCoy Memoirs p.150 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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- The Johnsons
- William S. and Nora (Steward) Johnson pose for a photograph in 1900.
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- The Layton Home
- The home of Jack & Ella Layton in Eagle, Colorado. The Laytons arrived in the Eagle Valley around 1890.
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- The Laytons
- The Laytons, Jack and Ella, in front of their home in Eagle, Colorado. Appears to on Capital Street, next to Ping (Nogal) Hotel. The Laytons were early homesteaders in the Eagle Valley and were active in mining and ranching.