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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- Flower judging
- Flower judging at the 2012 County Fair.
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- Floyd Beck
- Floyd Beck standing in a backyard garden, Lakewood Colorado. He wears a hat. Bird bath and flowers visible in the background.
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- Flume at Conger Mesa Ditch
- A view of the long flume on the Conger Mesa Ditch. [photo says 1910, McCoy Memoirs says 1909]. "The Conger Mesa irrigation ditch in 1909 was nearly three fourths wooden flume in Rock Creek Canyon. A year later, this section of the flume went out resulting in major catastrophe for the Railroad and Ditch Company. Nearly 200 feet of track was covered with mud and rock to a depth of from five to sixteen feet and required 200 men working in ten hour shifts, four days to clear the track of the debris so trains could once again travel over it. At that time bulldozers were non-existant and all work of this nature was performed by hand labor. Besides tieing up the railroad, the ranchers who depended on the ditch for irrigation, were without water at a time (June) when it was needed most. This section of flume was never replaced. Instead it was by-passed by a 1,100 foot long syphon pipe which the Railroad Company installed at their own expense." -- McCoy Memoirs p.69 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]