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A bad back dictated that I travel light to the Georgetown, Texas, July 4 festivities. No tripod. I took my long zoom lens, great for the people shots I got, but not the best choice in hindsight for fireworks - especially since the show was bursting literally right over our heads as we sat on the banks of the San Gabriel River. I had to point my Canon 60D, cranked up to ISO 6400 and hand-held, almost straight up, and the 3D effect of "bombs bursting in air" was better than anything in any movie. Congratulations to Georgetown for successfully pulling off a fireworks show when other Central Texas cities bowed to the drought and fire concerns. Well done!
Georgetown wasn't a tourist playtown. In almost every pretty little doorway, craftsmen and businesses hummed with print-presses, kitchen equipment and machine tools.
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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Rustic picnic tables resembling a lobster shack.
Tackle Box is a nice little stop at Georgetown in Washington DC.
Georgetown is partially blocked by the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, as seen from the apex of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
View of Whitehurst Freeway from Key Bridge. Below is Georgetown Waterfront Park, beside the Potomac River. Washington, DC.
Students from Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., spent Feb. 26-28, 2020, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, learning skills like carving and steambending from Shipyard Programs Manager Jenn Kuhn.
"Village A" student housing at Georgetown (John Carl Warnecke and Associates, working with University Architect Leslie Dean Price; completed in 1979). Seen here: staircase ascending up through the terraces. See introductory comments here.
Healy Hall in the distance
Photo by: Phil Humnicky/Georgetown
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The 2023 CCIM Sporting Clays event was held Wednesday April 12, 2023 at Reunion Ranch near Georgetown, Texas.