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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- Dad Wellington and Grandson
- C.1930: Dad Wellington and grandson, John Wellington, seated in buckboard. Buggy is being pulled by a mule. Both wear hats and Dad Wellington wears overalls. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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- Dad Wellington and his Donkey, Jack
- c.1932: W. H. "Dad" Wellington shown in mail wagon, with his donkey, "Jack" standing next to the railroad crossing sign at Edwards. Lettuce shed is on the far left, with stacks of crates. Wellington hauled mail from the railroad to the Edwards Post Office twice a day for over 42 yrs. "He has driven this route, carrying the mail for forty-four years, since May 13, 1895, without missing a single trip. He makes three each day. He calls his mule "My Faithful Jack" and claims it is the only mule mail route in the United States, which the Post Office Department says he is entitled to, a far as their records show." -- from The Red Book, or "The History of Eagle County". [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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- Dam break results
- Douglas Martin and Glende Vernice standing next to the remains of a building on the Hank Fox place, Red Dirt Creek. Vesintiner's Dam broke on June 3, 1952, flooding the area down through McCoy. -- Verso Eagle Valley Enterprise June 5, 1952 p.1: "Dam Break Destoys Cabins at McCoy. Homes, ranch property and livestock were destroyed early Tuesday morning when the King Mt. Reservoir dam near McCoy gave way, spilling 600 acre feet of water into Red, Egeria dn Rock creeks, into the town of McCoy. The dam broke around 9 p.m. and its rushing waters carried cabins, livestock and poultry in its rush to the Colorado river. Heaviest losses were on the Harry Fox ranch, where farm machinery, barns, corrals, calves and hogs were washing into the torrent. Rich meadow and hand land on the Ralph Kaiser place, the old Arthur Horn ranch, was washed badly, and covered with mud. A bunk ouse belonging to Leonard Horn of Wolcott, who retained ten acres of the original Horn ranch, was completely destroyed, carrying away $2000 in personal belongings owned by Robert Anderson, living in another house on the property, which stood in five feet of water, but was undamaged. Two of four cabins owned by Henry Robbins at McCoy were washed away, and the remaining two swept around on their foundations. John Summers and Harry Sproul occupied the two cabins which went with the flash flood. Two bridges were swept away. The dam is located about three miles above McCoy, and was about three-quarters of a mile long and twenty feet high, storing irrigation water for the livestock raising and ranching in that section of northern Eagle County." [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]