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Georgetown,CO - Clear Creek County - c1880 - Vista over Clear Creek Canyon Photograph :

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Georgetown,CO - Clear Creek County - c1880 - Vista over Clear Creek Canyon Photograph :
William H. Jackson’s Clear Creek Series makes its way to Georgetown. Stereograph measures 7”x4”, medium contrast—suffers from some aging, but it's focus is sharp. Jackson of W. H. Jackson & Co., Denver Colorado, opened shop in Denver in 1879. On the back of the card there is a long description praising the tributaries from Georgetown to Black Hawk. Titled "Clear Creek Canyon" the description begins, “Clear Creek, with its various tributaries, rises in among the snow-clad peaks of the main Rocky Mountain range immediately west and in plain sight of Denver. It runs through the very heart of one of the richest as well as the oldest mining centers in Colorado . . . .” Crofutt’s 1885, Guide of Colorado states, “Georgetown is strictly a mining town. The first discovery of silver in Colorado was made by James Huff, September, 14, 1864; the location is about eight miles above Georgetown. Of the thousand rich mines in the vicinity of the town, those shipping ore are: Colorado Central, Terrible, Pay Rock, Vulcan, Griffith, Baltimore, Tunnel, Equator, Mendota, Little Matte, Native American, Cory City, 7-30, Joe Reynolds, Tenth Legion, and many others.”