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Show Henrieville Typical Small Town ; "i" " :: I r ; l.itt n 1 T : - I' '. !! vH I ,! I ' ..--.'i's, ) i il ,i I 1 5: I 1 S i t il I f J Visitors to the area should put aside time to visit Henrieville's decorative Post Office. Many pioneer antiques can be seen inside between the hours of 9 a.m.-noon and 2 p.m. -5 p.m. HENRIEVILLE Settled about 1878, the picturesque farming and ranching community of Henrieville with its peaceful air beckons the traveling city dweller. Somehow typifying the urban-ite's urban-ite's idea of what a small farming town should be, Henrieville spreads its friendly country charm on warm summer days, its abundant gardens lush with vegetables, its flower gardens brilliant with color, its 1 lovely green trees barely moving in '. the soft breeze. i Cattle and sheep graze nearby, ; adding to the peaceful quality of life in the little valley. i In the high altitudes of Garfield County, little towns like Hen- rievillc flourish, protected from the cold and the altitude by quirks of i nature that allow for the growing of gardens and fruit orchards in an area where it would normally not be cx- j peeled. ; The traveler drops over the hill J suddenly into a tiny little town, , green with summer and sparkling with water in the irrination ditches ' &D I t t the age-old method still used in these little towns to bring lifegiv-ing lifegiv-ing water into otherwise arid areas. Settled by the Littlefields, Thompsons and Ingrams and later the Smiths names still to be found among the families occupying occupy-ing the homes in town and on nearby ranches Henrieville experienced problems common to the arca-that of controlling raginc waters of flash floods which would wwk 'nSUlnt' Wip Ut yCarS 0f hard' Modern methods have finally brought the Hoods almost entire Z under control, but even in recent summers the bridge over Hen ncvlle Creek washed out as wc outsider? bFidgCS iateTy outside of town on cither end leaving leav-ing the little community cufoff intaTlt113" pionccr h-ing h-ing trail leading directly to Kodachrome Ko-dachrome Basin State Reserve from |