Georgetown was founded during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush, but five years later in 1864, silver was discovered up the creek about eight miles southwest of town in the Argentine Pass area, it was the silver rush that made the town the historical landmark it is today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,_Colorado
Downtown Georgetown
We had great fun roaming through the shops in historic downtown Georgetown. Here's a link to some of the shops: http://www.visitgeorgetowncolorado.com/georgetown_colorado_shopping.asp
Railroad Art by Scotty
We got a great piece of railroad art from this fellow.http://www.railroadart.com/
Paramedic T-shirt in a Shop Window
Georgetown Loop Railroad
The Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Railroad performed one of the great engineering feats of the age by lifting itself some 638 feet, from Georgetown to Silver Plume, over a track distance of four and one-half miles. This was done (on a gradient of 143 feet to the mile) by the dramatic engineering device of The Georgetown Loop. Here the three-foot tracks spiraled upward above the Devil's Gate canyon of Clear Creek and passed over themselves by the celebrated "high bridge" and on into Silver Plume. This text was taken in its entirety from the website at: http://www.georgetowncolorado.com/bigmen.htm
This photo was taken in 1885.
I think this railroad was built in 1870 by Jay Gould. It still runs as part of a tourist attraction and has thousands of passengers a year.
Hotel de Paris Museum
I didn't even realize this was a museum when I took the photo of the art work on the side of the building.
In 1875, a minor, Louis Dupuy, rented the building that had housed the Delmonico Bakery and opened it as the Hotel de Paris. The entire first floor was taken up with a restaurant and a kitchen. Here's the chronology of the hotel: http://www.hoteldeparismuseum.org/chronology.htmlAlpine Hose Company No. 2 - Historic Fire Station
The Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department has worked out of this fire station, non-stop, since 1870.
