History

Dorothy Codding. 1956, Rye Courtesy Photo

Table Mountain Slovic Families- Part IV of V

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Part IV of V Two of John Sullivan Codding’s four sons moved to Pueblo County. Son, John Francis purchased the Andro ‘Andrew’ Soffa property on Table Mountain near Rye in the early 1900s.

Mary Inez Marcinko Jonke

Table Mountain Slovic Families- Part III of V

Part Iii Of V

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Cheryl Johnson Huban Greenhorn Valley View The Andro ‘Andy’ D. Marcinko Family (1925) Andro was born in Slovakia in 1859 and grew up there. He married Elizabeth Alis Mura in 1885. She was three years younger. They had their first child, Andrew, the next year.

John Crump, Emma Olive Reynolds Crump, Mary Lee, Lucy, Harry, Courtesy Photo

Table Mountain Table Top - Part II of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Part II of V Table Mountain Slovic Families In the early years of the 1900s, the following families moved up onto Table Mountain Mesa and into Muddy Canyon: Crump, Gresh, Marcinko and Soffa.

View from Table Mountain Courtesy Photo

Table Mountain Table Top- Part I of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Table Mountain The ranchland on the top of Table Mountain (Table Top) began to be settled in the 1880s. The landmark flat-topped mesa gave the name to the post office that became Rye, and a small community located near its northwest base. Four homesteads were awarded on the top of the Mesa.

Van Edmund Douglass Courtesy Image

Table Mountain Community

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Village of Table Mountain original store and post office building was sold to William I. Gray in 1916 or 1918, as part of a 365-acre ranch. William and his wife, Maggie Alice Spitler were both born in 1863, he in Michigan and she in Ohio.

First Post Office, Table Mountain Courtesy Photo

Table Mountain Community - Part I of II

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Part I of II Just to confuse us, the small village of Table Mountain that preceded the town of Rye was not located on the mesa called Table Mountain.

Herlyck Robert Tombstone Mountain View Pueblo Courtesy Photo

San Isabel - Herlyck Brothers Part IV of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Robert Samuel ‘Bob’ Herlyck Robert, looked different than his brothers, he was tall with dark hair. Like his older brother, he was employed for the most part in timber.

Herlyck Tombstone Glenwood Springs Courtesy Photo

San Isabel - Herlyck Brothers Part III of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Thursday, October 26, 2023

- Herlyck Brothers Part III of IV Jesse James Herlyck As the oldest son of Louis Christian and Vina Taylor Herlyck, Jesse took over the care of his three younger brothers and sometimes his sister.

Snowslide Cabin 1995 Courtesy Photo

San Isabel - Herlyck Brothers Part II of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

- Herlyck Brothers Part II of IV Louis Christian Herlyck The second son of John Neilson and Margaret Ann Shaw Herlyck, Louis was born in Maine in 1883. He came to Colorado on the train with his family when he was three-years-old. He grew up on his parents’ ranch at the foot of West Spanish Peak.

San Isabel - Herlyck Brothers Part I of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Henry, Robert and Samuel, the sons of Louis Christian Herlyck, grew up rough and tumble near Gulnare, Colorado. They worked in the timber and at saw mills from an early age. As adults they lived and worked in the hills around what is now Lake San Isabel.

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