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In 1849 a party of Oregonian miners encamped in this spot, and an individual named Hudson soon found some $20000 worth of gold. Nuggets were so big they "growled", and soon Growlersburg was formed. The mining town soon was renamed George's Dry Diggins, either named for sailor George Phipps, or miner George Ehrenhaft. In 1852 the entire town was burned in a massive fire, supposedly due to a photographer trying to capture a post-mortem photograph. The town was moved uphill, and to prevent the entire town from burning up again most of the buildings were constructed out of brick; more importantly the main street was widened to 100ft (30.5m) and side streets to 60ft. The wide spaces can still be observed, and Georgetown is known as the "Pride of the Mountains".
Georgetown, California
Once she was grand! Right near the corner of 2nd Street and Sanford Avenue, at the northwest corner of Georgetown.
Looks like this is turning into a series. I've long been fascinated by Georgetown, and I think it's a worthwhile project to get photos of the old places before they are gone.
I asked my historian friend (Christine Kinlaw Best) about this house; she told me that it happens that she is researching this house right now, and told me this much:
"This is the 'Harris House' (aka "The Harris Nest'). [We searched] the microfilm at the Sanford Museum & found Mrs. Montez Harris' obituary. She & her husband (Frank Harris) built this home around the turn of the century & raised two daughters in the house. This house was referred to as the "Harris Nest". Their daughter, Bernice, was a teacher for many years here in Sanford. Mrs. Harris died in 1963 at the age of 85."
Thanks, Christine!
A water taxi sailing from the Washington Channel into the Anacostia River. Seen from Hains Point. Washington, DC.
See photo from 2020: Enjoying the View.
The Georgetown town offices are housed in an beautiful building that was once the Central School. In 1905, community of Georgetown, Massachusetts built the Central School and closed the one-room schoolhouses.
Georgetown Market, Seattle WA
This gent sells polished stones and polished stone jewelery at the Georgetown Saturday Market.
Contax G1
Carl Zeiss 45mm 2/f
Arista Premium 400
Rodinal 1+50, 13 minutes
Epson 4490
This is part of my Strangers project.
The new (May 2010) Safeway in Georgetown (Washington DC) at 1855 Wisconsin Ave NW) opened just one year after the previous store at this location closed. It is the first LEED certified (sustainability) store in DC.
According to their site...
Safeway has strong roots in the Georgetown community. Safeway began serving Washington DC by acquiring the Sanitary Grocery Company 80 years ago. Safeway operated the Georgetown Sanitary Grocery store before it changed the banner to Safeway. Later, Safeway opened its first store on Wisconsin Avenue near 34th Street. Since then, it has been replaced and enlarged twice to improve the services provided to our customers. As the fourth store in this location, the Georgetown Safeway is the urban supermarket for the 21st Century.
Georgetown is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, population 8,183. It was incorporated in 1838 from part of Rowley. Georgetown was originally settled in 1639 as a part of the town of Rowley by the Reverend Ezekiel Rogers. The town at the time stretched from the Atlantic coast to the Merrimack River, south of Newbury and north of Ipswich. Several farmers, finding suitable meadowlands in the western half of the settlement, began settling along the Penn Brook by the middle of the seventeenth century, creating Rowley's West Parish. The village, which became known as New Rowley, grew for many years, with small mills and eventually a shoe company opening in the town. By 1838, the town was sufficiently large enough for its own incorporation and was renamed Georgetown. Small industry continued, and today the town is mostly residential in nature, a distant suburb of Boston's North Shore. Georgetown is bordered by Groveland to the northwest, Newbury to the northeast, Rowley to the southeast, and Boxford to the southwest.
What seems to be the town clock in Georgetown - an historic silver mining town in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It still has a number of historic looking (1880's ish) building along the old main street, which I'll hopefuly upload next, but it was difficult to shoot an old building without a modern SUV parked in front of it ;-)