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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Yarmony Park students, 1922
"Yarmony Park school, 1922. Buster Gilbert, Ila and Edith Babcock, Mary Koski and Ola Garrett." -- McCoy Memoirs p.50 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Yeoman Park Ranger Station
The Yeoman Park Ranger Station (Eagle Ranger District) on East Brush Creek, Colorado. Barn and implement shed are along drive before station. An automobile is parked by the central building. A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp was situated near the station. The foundations are visible today. The campground is convenient to the Holy Cross Wilderness, the old mining town of Fulford, and Fulford Cave., Multiple donations of identical photographs. Information written on back of 2016.018 version.
Yeoman Park Ranger Station
The "front view" of the ranger station at Yeoman Bark, Holy Cross Wilderness.
Yeoman Park Station
"Yeoman Park Station from new Yeoman Park road looking SE toward Ironedge Mtn. Holy Cross - H.D. Cochran 1925" A longer range photograph of the ranger station showing the forest to full scale in comparison to structures. The road and buildings were built as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps program during the Great Depression. Foundations of the buildings are still visible today. "Ironedge" now could refer to the scenic trails in White River National Forest leading to Lake Charles and ski huts.
Yeoman Park, Holy Cross National Forest
Photograph taken by E.R. Lepley. Yeoman Park Ranger Station barn and a side view of the shed. Many of the structures at Yeoman Park were built as part of the CCC Program, or Civilian Conservation Corps, during the Great Depression., Duplicate: 1990.001.029
Young women
Six young women, grouped next to a fence. All are wearing coats and all but one are wearing hats. From left to right: Roberta Hunter, Doris [Dora?] McMillen, Alice Hunter, Blanche Dump, Elsie Elliott, Benarda Meehan.

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