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Home of Dr. George Starke. From my historian friend, Christine Kinlaw Best:
"Dr. Starke was the first African American physician to practice here in Sanford, coming here in 1927. He practiced in Sanford for 50 years & when he retired in 1977, the City gave him a massive retirement party in the Civic Center. Sadly, he passed away the next year in 1978. He was loved by the entire community. His home is at: 611 S. Locust Ave. It's a big two-story white house in Georgetown."
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This tree was at 28th St and Pennsylvania Ave in Georgetown, in front of the Four Seasons Hotel. It's no longer there. The District, for whatever reason, chopped it down.
I used to walk passed this little pharmacy when I lived in Georgetown. Not sure if I ever went in, but I found the old style "apothecary" look so charming.
This stretch of newly renovated heritage buildings was to be used by new companies along Beach Street, Georgetown, Penang.
This is the Old Stone School House in Georgetown Maine. A one room schoolhouse that has been preserved by the town.
Georgetown Loop Railorad 1934, a General Electric centercab diesel, was tucked away nicely in the enginehouse at Silver Plume Colorado on the afternoon of September 2 2023. The steam locomotives handled the daily passenger train; there was no reason for it to be out.
The National Narrow Gauge Convention yard tour was continuously interrupted by frantic shouting over the radio. Finally the head mechanic asked the convention attendees to leave so he could figure out what was going on. Within minutes the 1934 was fired up and rushed down the mountain. One of the passenger trains apparently needed a rescue.
Earlier in the afternoon a heavy rainstorm left the tracks slick, so there was some concern about wheel slip on the steep grade. The real problem that stranded GLRR 40 and the Silver Plume train involved the brake system; the rear passenger cars kept going into emergency application, preventing the steam locomotive from ascending the canyon.
The trip down and up was extremely fast - the diesel had everything up at Silver Plume within twenty minutes of departure, then cut off the 40 and took the passengers back down to Georgetown.
The Cayman Islands is made up of three small Islands in the Caribbean. They are Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac and are located approximately 180 miles northwest of Jamaica, 480 miles south of Miami and 150 miles south of Cuba.
About Georgetown, Washington DC
Georgetown is a historic neighborhood, commercial, and entertainment district located in northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River. Founded in 1751 in the state of Maryland, the port of Georgetown predated the establishment of the federal district and the City of Washington by 40 years. Georgetown remained a separate municipality until 1871, when the United States Congress created a new consolidated government for the whole District of Columbia. A separate act passed in 1895 specifically repealed Georgetown's remaining local ordinances and renamed Georgetown's streets to conform with those in the City of Washington.
The primary commercial corridors of Georgetown are the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue & M Street, which contain high-end shops, bars, restaurants, and the Georgetown Park enclosed shopping mall, as well as the Washington Harbour waterfront restaurants at K Street, NW, between 30th and 31st Streets. Georgetown is home to the main campus of Georgetown University and numerous other landmarks, such as the Volta Bureau and the Old Stone House, the oldest unchanged building in Washington. The embassies of France, Mongolia, Sweden, Thailand, and Ukraine are located in Georgetown.
This is an installation of a Georgetown Mantel completed by mantelsdirect.com customer Ken Kelley. The Georgetown is a classic American wood fireplace mantel and is available in both standard and custom sizes. This high quality mantel is can be made in Poplar for Painting, Poplar for Staining, Pine, Maple, Oak and Cherry for staining. You may choose to receive your fireplace mantel unfinished or with a professionally applied paint or stain of your choice. This mantel is easy-to-install with just a few tools and limited skill required.
20 March 2024, Georgetown, Guyana - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu during a bilateral meeting with Jomo Campbell, Minister for Agriculture and Marine Resources of The Bahamas, during the 38th Regional Conference of FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Max Valencia. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
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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