2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/9896Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery. Published at Central City Colorado.No. 159. Clear Creek Series. - Georgetown, Looking East. Georgetown is the Capital of Clear Creek County, situated on South Clear Creek, about nine miles from the Snowy Range. The settlement began in 1860. A town charter was granted in 1868, and probably no town in the Territory has grown so steadily and prosperous as Georgetown. The present population is about 3,500. Its altitude is 8,452 feet. The chief industry is mining, and valuable inducements for the investment of capital in mining enterprises are to be found here. The value of ore shipments during 1873 was over a millon and a quarter of dollars--Verso.Date scanned: 2000-10-19.Identifier: SC148.Mounted on cardboard; text on front and verso.Related stereopair and postcards: SC101, SC609, SC795.Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.Stereopair showing Georgetown as it appeared around 1874. Georgetown was established shortly after George Griffith discovered gold on Griffith Mountain in 1859. Prospectors were drawn to the area and located other deposits, and George and his brother David laid out George's Town (Georgetown). The gold-bearing quartz found in Georgetown had to be crushed to extract the gold, and the Griffith brothers built a toll wagon road from Central City to Georgetown in 1860 to transport the necessary stamp mill machinery. Although these newly discovered lodes were originally worked for gold, many were later found to be rich in silver. Georgetown became a silver camp with this discovery in 1864. By 1868 the town had a population of 1,500 and became the Clear Creek County seat. A rail line to the town was completed in 1877, transporting supplies to the nearby mining towns and ore from the mines to the smelters below. Between 1860 and 1893, it is estimated that the Georgetown mines produced ...Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlMining townsStillImage