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Welcome!! These web pages are designed to act as a clearinghouse for genealogical and historical information related to Eagle County, Colorado. We are Jan Cortez and , your hosts.

Our first task will be to go through the site and update links and familiarize ourselves with the existing website. If you have any ideas, please contact us.

Looking thru the website, I see that we have a very large amount of dead links to what once must have been some good information. Most of it appears to have disappeared, so I'm going to try and delete as many as possible and try to begin again. PLEASE help, by sending us your bios, obits, cemetery photos & info, queries, family web pages, etc., etc.

Visitors can read and post queries, family obituaries, and bios, as well as view lists of reference sources. Some source materials are available directly through these pages. Links to existing family genealogies and/or other related information is planned as well.

If you have anything that you would like to contribute to the site, please contact us. We'd love to work with you making this a top notch research site.

Eagle County, Colorado

The lead carbonate strike in Leadville in 1874 brought many prospectors to the valley which became Eagle County. By 1879 a permanent camp was established and became the town of Redcliff. Eagle county was formed in 1883 from Summit County. The original county seat was Redcliff. The county seat moved to the town of Eagle in 1921.

Eagle county is located in the Rocky Mountains to the west of Denver. I-70 runs east-west through the middle of the county. Once dependent upon mining and agriculture, today's economy is driven by tourism. The Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts are located in Eagle County. The evolution of Vail into an international resort is credited to the famous 10th Mountain Division ski troops who were introduced to the valley while training at Camp Hale in the 1940s. Following World War II, a group of former Army buddies returned and developed a ski resort, Vail.

In 1995, Eagle County had a population of 28,844.

Eagle County

Eagle County Courthouse in 1932

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WHAT'S NEW!!


02-02-09 - Church page updated with new info received from United Methodist Church of Eagle Valley
02-03-09 - An obituary page has been added with two obits.
02-07-09 - Flannery & Barlow Family History Site added
02-07-09 - Corrections made to emails on the surname page.
02-07-09 - Added a Co-CC to the site. Please welcome Pat McArthur
03-09-09 - Added navigation menu, obituaries, and some births, marriages, and newspaper articles.
05-05-09 - Added McMillen bio.

  • Archives for Eagle County

  • Declarations of Intention to become a US citizen

  • 1899 Business Directory for Eagle County

  • 1906 Business Directory for Eagle County

  • Genealogical & Historical Societies

  • Flannery & Barlow Family History

  • Look ups "Basalt: Colorado Midland Town" by Clarence and Ralph Danielson

    David Bair---davebair@sio.midco.net

  • Libraries

    Eagle County Map Links

  • 1895 Eagle County Map

  • Places & Towns in Eagle County from 1883

    • Neighboring Counties

    USGenWeb Links

    Indexes

     

    Mailing Lists

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      We we are in need of volunteers willing to take gravestone photographs and load them to the site.  If you can help, email Gail Meyer Kilgore

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    This page was last updated Tuesday, 05-May-2009 07:18:59 MDT