At the beginning of the 20th century, historian Herman Daniel Jerrett noted that there was no other part of the world with a placer seam formation filled with small gold-bearing veins and veinlets, so great or so crumpled, crushed and its fold mashed together, as that on the Georgetown Divide. First a simple base and supply camp for early miners, Georgetown survived despite repeated challenges from fires and economic slumps. Now rebuilt, it offers physical proof of the hardy pioneer spirit that settled this small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Historic Main Street offers numerous examples of fireproof architectural styles, more hopeful than realistic, including the 100-foot-wide Main Street itself, unique in Mother Lode mining towns."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 09/06/2010
ISBN: 9780738581132
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 59