Merin-Smith Implement Shed Trail Stop

Built about 1925, this structure's interior changed frequently over the years. Merin Smith wed the daughter of M. Valentine Oyler, a long-term Fruita farmer whose orchard and grape arbors covered much of the northeastern bank of the Fremont here in the 1920s. Merin Smith purchased the first tractor in Fruita. This transitional machine, named the "Power Horse", spanned the periods of horse-drawn and gas engine farm implements.