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Published in Cooperation with Historic Georgetown, Inc. and People for Silver Plume, Inc.
A Cordillera Press Guide JOHNSON BOOKS: BOULDER
title
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Guide to the Georgetown Silver Plume Historic District
author
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publisher
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Johnson Books
isbn10 | asin
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1555661513
print isbn13
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9781555661519
ebook isbn13
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9780585030586
language
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English
subject
Georgetown (Colo.)--Tours, Silver Plume (Colo.)--Tours, Silver mines and mining--Colorado--Georgetown--History, Silver mines and mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--History.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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F784.G34G85 1995eb
ddc
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917.88/61
subject
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Georgetown (Colo.)--Tours, Silver Plume (Colo.)--Tours, Silver mines and mining--Colorado--Georgetown--History, Silver mines and mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--History.
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Copyright 1990 by Cordillera Press, Inc. Copyright 1995 by Johnson Books
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher.
Third Edition
987654321
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guide to the Georgetown-Silver Plume historic district.3rd ed. p. cm. "Published in cooperation with Historic Georgetown, Inc. and People for Silver Plume, Inc. " Originally published: Evergreen, Colo. : Cordillera Press, c1986. ISBN 1-55566-151-3 (alk. paper) 1. Georgetown (Colo. )Tours. 2. Silver Plume (Colo. )Tours. 3. Silver mines and miningColoradoGeorgetownHistory. 4. Silver mines and miningColoradoSilver PlumeHistory. I. Georgetown Society (Colo. ) II. People for Silver Plume (Colo.) F784.G34G85 1995 917.88'61dc 2095-7719 CIP
Front Cover Photograph: Looking southwest across Georgetown, the Loop Valley, and Silver Plume toward the Continental Divide from Woodchuck Peak. Gary Regester.
Back Cover Photographs: Georgetown Loop, the Silver Plume School, home of the George Rowe Museum, and Georgetown's Hamill house. Gary Regester.
Printed in the United States by Johnson Printing 1880 South 57th Court Boulder, Colorado 80301
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Contents
Mountains, Mines, & Railroads
4
Georgetown: "Silver Queen of the Rockies"
7
Tour 1
8
Tour 2
14
The Georgetown Loop
23
Georgetown Loop Historic Mining and Railroad Park
26
Reconstruction of the Devil's Gate High Bridge
30
Silver Plume: "The Miner's Town"
35
Tour 1
36
Tour 2
42
Acknowledgments
48
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Mountains, Mines, & Railroads
In the fall of 1858, the mountains of central Colorado lay as a bewildering maze, a land of rugged valleys and snowy summits known only to Indians and a small circle of mountain men and explorers. The great trails of the California gold rush had bypassed this heart of the Rockies, and the land was given little thought. Yet, there were whispers in the land that all of this was soon to change. In a matter of months, the whispers became a resounding summons, "Gold! Gold in the mountains of Colorado!"
Prospectors, dreamers, vagabonds, and boomers poured west across the Great Plains and converged on the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. In the vanguard of this migration were George and David Griffith, brothers and farmers from Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Arriving too late to capitalize on the initial discoveries at Central City and Idaho Springs, the Griffiths pushed farther west along the main branch of Clear Creek. In June of 1859, at the confluence of two streams near the corner of Eleventh and Rose streets in present-day Georgetown, their pans revealed gold. The brothers immediately staked a claim and the next year established the Griffith Mining District. George Griffith became District Recorder and gave his name to the growing cluster of cabins.
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