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“A very interesting discovery has been made at the site of Cowenhoven and Brown’s proposed new block on Hyman Avenue,” the Aspen Daily Times noted on June 5, 1889.
“The buildings have all been moved off excepting the bakery, and the work of excavating has commenced. It is found that a woodchuck has made his home under the old buildings, and, as the work goes forward, he looks from a hole under the bakery as though protesting against the intermission upon his domain. He is old and gray and must have lived there for a long time. No one has been found who ever saw a woodchuck in the valley, as they make their home much higher up in the mountains, and this old fellow living here in the heart of the city is certainly a curiosity.”
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