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This is a photo of the Georgetown Colorado Public School built in 1874, It's finally being cleaned up, but you can still see the old mining machinery and other trash lying about.
Street kitchen with a weathered wooden shutter providing shadow. In the historic center of Georgetown, a UNESCO World Heritage site for it's Sino-Portuguese architecture and Peranakan culture.
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Pulau Penang, die Insel in Malaysia liegt in der Straße von Malakka und besonders Georgetown hat viele schöne liebevoll restaurierte Bauten aus der Kolonialzeit und viele hinduistische, chinesische und buddhistische Tempel, sowie christliche Kirchen. In Georgetown glaubt man manchmal, die Zeit scheint stehen geblieben zu sein. Rikschas, chinesische Shophouses und Garküchen begegnen einem überall.
Pulau Penang, the Island in Malaysia is located in the Strait of Malacca and especially Georgetown has many beautiful lovingly restored colonial buildings and many Hindu, Chinese and Buddhist temples, as well as Christian churches. In Georgetown you sometimes thinks the time seems to have stopped. Rikshas, ​​Chinese shophouses and food stalls meet you everywhere.
A Shay crosses the famed trestle that gives the Georgetown Loop Railroad its name. The loop allows trains to go from about the level of the road to the height of the trestle, easing the climb between Georgetown and Silver Plume. Abandoned as a revenue railroad by the Colorado and Southern in 1939, the loop and surrounding rails were later revitalized as a tourist railroad.
It's better with the truck in it.
The Georgetown City Hall sits at the north end of Boeing Field. The clock tower is a replacement for a slightly taller one removed on orders of the U.S. Army (concerned that a plane would hit it while trying to land) at the beginning of World War II. A top secret B-29 prototype did crash nearby - into the Carstens packing plant and stockyards. As a historical account puts it, "Those who heard the surreal chorus of squealing pigs that followed the explosion described it as terrifying."
nrhp # 66000243- The Georgetown–Silver Plume National Historic Landmark District is a federally designated United States National Historic Landmark that comprises the Town of Georgetown, the Town of Silver Plume, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two silver mining towns along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.
The district includes well-preserved examples of the buildings and mining structures of the Colorado Silver Boom from 1864 to 1893. The Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park includes the reconstructed Georgetown Loop, a spectacular example of 19th-century 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway engineering required to negotiate the 601 feet (183 meters) of elevation rise in the mere 2.0 miles (3.2 kilometers) between the two towns. Historic steam locomotives pull passenger trains over the loop from late May through the beautiful Autumn colors of early October. Guided tours of the Lebanon Silver Mine are also available.
The district was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 13, 1966.
Gold was discovered in Georgetown by George and David Griffiths in 1859, and Georgetown eventually took its name from the former. The gold finds in the area were relatively minor, but a major lode of silver was discovered in 1864, kicking off the local boom. Georgetown became a center for thousands of miners operating in the surrounding hills. Silver Plume was developed as one of a series of satellite camps, and in 1884 the Georgetown Loop Railroad was built, connecting the two by rail. Mining declined in the 1890s, and the area has since had a relatively low population.
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In the Apple store in Georgetown, there are large glass orbs that give reflections of Wisconsin Avenue.
nrhp # 66000243- The Georgetown–Silver Plume National Historic Landmark District is a federally designated United States National Historic Landmark that comprises the Town of Georgetown, the Town of Silver Plume, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two silver mining towns along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.
The district includes well-preserved examples of the buildings and mining structures of the Colorado Silver Boom from 1864 to 1893. The Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park includes the reconstructed Georgetown Loop, a spectacular example of 19th-century 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway engineering required to negotiate the 601 feet (183 meters) of elevation rise in the mere 2.0 miles (3.2 kilometers) between the two towns. Historic steam locomotives pull passenger trains over the loop from late May through the beautiful Autumn colors of early October. Guided tours of the Lebanon Silver Mine are also available.
The district was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 13, 1966.
Gold was discovered in Georgetown by George and David Griffiths in 1859, and Georgetown eventually took its name from the former. The gold finds in the area were relatively minor, but a major lode of silver was discovered in 1864, kicking off the local boom. Georgetown became a center for thousands of miners operating in the surrounding hills. Silver Plume was developed as one of a series of satellite camps, and in 1884 the Georgetown Loop Railroad was built, connecting the two by rail. Mining declined in the 1890s, and the area has since had a relatively low population.
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Had the privilege of taking pictures of some good friends yesterday for their band. We ran around Georgetown and then Reagan National Airport for a few hours. These are some of the shots I took for them.
Fun times, fun times.. :)
Former International Railways of Central America 2-8-0 No. 111 (Baldwin, 1926) operating over the narrow gauge rails of the Georgetown Loop Railroad between Silver Plume and Georgetown, Colorado.
40 is reversing its train out of Georgetown station, before returning forward to make its way up to Silver Plume.
Built in 1876 this building was a hotel under several different names including Internation, Thompson, St. Andrew, and St. James.
The small town of Georgetown, Idaho can be seen on top of the hill across this little valley. Like many other towns around here, farmland is located right up to the edge of town, and it is common to find barns, hay sheds, and livestock mixed with residential neighborhoods. On the other hand, there isn't much traffic, smog, or noise.
Cover photo, Blue Highways, December 16, 2025