HOOSIER PASS

[Note: right-click on a map or photo to enlarge it; the photos were taken in the Fall of 2000]

Maps showing the location of Hoosier Pass
MAPS		COMMENTS
		This map shows the top of Hoosier Pass and indicates the position of the Colorado Place (called "The Final Place" in a few places). Highway Colorado 9 between Breckenridge and Alma runs generally in a north-south direction but with numerous twists and turns. However at the summit of Hoosier Pass (shown here) the road is very close to the north-south direction, so the terms east - west - north - south used here should be reasonably clear to the viewer.
		This map shows the entire area between Breckenridge and Alma.
		This map shows a number of pertinent points in the area which may be useful in locating some of the places on the photos below. The Hoosier Pass summit is where Colorado 9 (red) crosses the Continental Divide, the curved line between green Park County and yellow Summit County. Note "Peabody's", close to the right edge and about in the middle vertically. This spot, at the base of Boreas Pass between Como and Breckenridge, was where Lelon Peabody, a brother of your great-great-grandfather, Edwin Justin Peabody, lived and had a productive placer mining operation. Also note "Dyersville", at the top of the map, half way between Highway 9 and the map's right side. The "Dyer" is Rev. John Lewis Dyer, and the "Warrior's Mark Mine"--just below Dyersville--was his mine.

Photographs taken from a point in the Continental Divide about 1/3 of a mile west of the Hoosier Pass summit
PHOTOS	COMMENTS
	The Blue River valley to the north towards Breckenridge. The lake at the end of the valley is what used to be known as the "Goose Pasture Tarn" and is about two miles south of Breckenridge, which is not visible in this photo.
	The valley to the south, which carries the Middle Fork of the South Platte River. The buildings in the upper-right part are in Alma. Note the aspen colors -- winter is coming! The straight road running along the mountainside is Colorado 9. The curvy road running north from its connection with Colorado 9 goes to Montgomery Reservoir which is part of the Colorado Springs Municipal water system.
	Looking north, across Hoosier Pass; the summit is just to the right of the right side of the photo. The road is Colorado 9, curving its way towards Breckinridge. On the right are the north slopes of Mt. Silverheels. From them, runs the Hoosier Ridge, along the Continental Divide which a bit later passes through the summit of Boreas Pass.
	Looking east, across Hoosier Pass; Red Mt. is on the left, Mt. Silverheels on the right.

From THE PARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN AND FAIRPLAY FLUME, April 28,1933

The opening of the road over Hoosier Pass [there had been a monstrous snowstorm about a week earlier] was suddenly started Wednesday morning by the circumstance that a prominent citizen of Breckenridge had been seized with a serious ailment that made removal to Denver for expert treatment imperative. The patient was Clifford Peabody, county clerk of Summit County. [He was Elmer Clifton PEABODY, Linnie York's brother.] ... intestinal trouble ... An operation was performed in a Denver hospital at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening and at last report Mr. Peabody had greatly improved."

Photographs taken at the Hoosier Pass Summit
PHOTOS	COMMENTS
	These are most of the monuments and signs at the summit.
	This is a close-up of the Hoosier Pass Memorial at the summit.
	This is a sign pointing to Mt. Bross and Mt. Lincoln on the west side of the pass.