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GARFIELD
COUNTY, COGENWEB PROJECT
This is a collection of
historical pictures in and around Rifle Colorado.
Photos are used from Edwin Thompson, Steve Fox, Paul
Bernklau and others.
ANTLERS COLORADO (Ghost Town)
 
 
Some
of the businesses in Antlers listed below
Anna Hickox taught at the Antlers School after Esma Lewis moved on to Rifle.
This photo is September 1962. It was the final year for the school. The school
was built in 1887 as a one room school, then had a western side additional room
added in 1903. It was the last rural school to operate in Garfield County.
RE-2 consolidation closed the school at the end of the 1962-63 school year. Anna
taught 16 years there, in the primary room, ie grades K to 4. I found she had 18
students in 1951 and there were 11 in the other classroom for grades 5 to 8.
Anna then moved on to continue teaching in Rifle, retiring in 1975 after 33
years total.
She taught 3rd grade at Esma Lewis Elementary not sure what
years.
Here is the Sentinel article:
Last Outpost
All that remains of a
once complex network of one room schools in Garfield
County is the frame
Antlers School,
Here, Mrs. Anna Hickox, who has taught in the Antlers school
for the past 15 years, readies textbooks for classroom sessions that include all
eight grades.
Sentinel Photo by Robert Grant
FRANK DWIRE
Surnames that
Settled in the Antlers Area
Becker, Fech,
Heitz, Horst, Kaufman, Kline, Lind from Donhof, Linker,
Reinhardt, Rohrig, Michael and Weiss
More about Antlers from Jerry Snyder
The Snyder family leaves Hillsdale, Michigan about 1910.
They headed west and first homestead in Arapahoe, Colorado.
After years of destroyed crops from hail, wind, and dust
storms grandfather Rueben Clyde Snyder said that was enough.
In 1925 my grandfather made a deal in a trade for a grocery
store and Post Office, Antlers, on the west slope. This
photo had written on it 1925 Antlers. My grandmother Grace
Snyder was postmaster and tended the store. My dad, Edgar A.
Snyder would have been 16 yrs old then. My grandfather
farmed sugar beets. The story goes on, to keep it short, I
was born at home, East Avenue, Rifle, Colorado December 25,
1947.
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