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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- Ram Jam, Eagle River Series
- Two unidentified individuals stand near some fallen logs on the Eagle River. This stereoscopic view was published by Alex Martin of Denver and was part of a series that explored the Eagle River. It is unknown where on the Eagle River this was taken. A description of the Eagle River was included on the verso of the view: The Eagle River is a tributary of the Grand. Its source is in the Tennessee Pass, which has an elevation of 10,418 feet. Its course is through pine groves and broad grassy valleys, with the high peaks of the Ten Mile and Blue River mountains to the east and the Mount of the Holy Cross and the Sawatch range on the west. Near at hand rise high cliffs of quartzite, sandstone, limestone and porphyry, belonging to the Silurian group and containing a continuation of the famous carbonate deposits of Leadville and the Upper Arkansas. Fifteen miles below the pass the river is reinforced by Turkey Creek and the Homestake, near the new town of Red Cliff, at an altitude of 8,550 feet. The river here enters a canon from 500 to 700 feet in depth, often nearly perpendicular, plowed by itself through the silurian and granite rocks which form Battle mountain, the scene of a deadly conflict between the Utes and the allied hosts of the Arapahoe's and Cheyenne's in 1868, and over which the old Indian trail and new wagon road passes, following the line of the carbonate outcropping.
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- Ranch house, Black Mountain Ranch
- "The main part of this ranch house on the Black Mountain Ranch was built by Anton "Tony" Johannbroer in 1910, and the addition on the right by John Ambos in 1928. Tony and his wife Rebecca only occupied it a few weeks, the Butler family eight years, Amboses twenty, then the Atwoods for several years. Mrs. Ambos planted the two spruce trees in 1926, but they were removed sometime after this photo was taken in 1952." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 249 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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- Randall Home
- The Rolland Randall home in Eagle.