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Show Henrieville Typical Small Farming Town trail leading directly to Kodachrome Basin State Reserve from town. Viritors should make a point of visiting Henrieville's post office for a touch of nostaligia and its own hall was once the old schoolhouse where the old fashioned desks can still be seen. The population of Henrieville is ahout ISO npnolp stant, wipe out years of hard work. Modern, methods have finally brought the floods almost entirely under control, but even in recent summers the bridge over Henrieville Creek washed out, as well as the two bridges immediately outside of town on either end, leaving the little community cut off from the rest of the world for several hours. There is still an old pioneer hiking (A) HENRIEVILLE - Settled about 1878, the picturesque farming and ranching community in Henrieville with its peaceful air beckons the traveling-city dweller. Somehow typifying the urban1te idea of what a small farming town should be, Henrieville-spreads its friendly country charm on warm summer days, its bundant gardens lush with vegetables, its flower gardens brilliant with color, its lovely green trees barely moving in the soft breeze. Cattle and sheep graze nearby, adding to the peaceful quality of life in the little valley. In the high altitudes of Garfield County, little towns like Henrieville flourish, protected from the cold and the altitude by quirks of nature that allow for the growing of gardens and fruit orchards in an area where it would normally not be expected. The traveler drops over the hill suddenly into a tiny little town, green ' with summer and sparkling with water in the irrigation ditches, the age-old method still used in these little towns to bring lifegiving water into otherwise arid areas. Settled by the Littlefields, Thompsons and Ingrams and later the Smiths names still to be (ound among the families occupying the homes in town and dn nearby ranches ran-ches Henrieville experienced problems common to the area that of controlling raging waters of flash floods which would, in an in- "T" fyHtLi. "': ' j fcsrosf office . n,,,,,,,,,' " ," i ' ' ' . MTV-" i ! in' i i i arriliU nummwn n-Tifi Visitors to the area should put aside time to visit Henrieville's decorative Post Office. Many pioneer antiques anti-ques can be seen within between hours of a.m. noon and 2 p.m. till S p.m. |