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Georgetown Overview Budoir Card

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Georgetown Overview Budoir Card
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W.H.Jackson photograph of an overview of Georgetown. The photo was taken from Mount Griffith. 7 x 4 1/2". Fairly strong contrast. One can clearly see all of the major buildings. Georgetown was incorporated on January 10, 1868, and a few months later it wrested the county seat from nearby Idaho Springs, which is a larger community today. The historic courthouse dates from this year. Georgetown is the only Colorado municipality that still operates under a charter from the Territory of Colorado. The building of the narrow gauge Colorado Central Railroad up the canyon from Golden in the 1870s further increased the central position of the town. Although most of the railroad was later removed, a portion remained between the town and Silver Plume and is operated today as a tourist railroad called the Georgetown Loop. The town experienced its greatest growth and prosperity during the Colorado silver boom of the 1880s when it rivaled Leadville to the west as the mining capital of Colorado. At one time, before the collapse of the silver boom in 1893, the town population exceeded 10,000, and a movement arose briefly among local citizens to move the state capital there from Denver.

City: Georgetown
State: Colorado,
Date: c1890

FHWAC#: 26765