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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. GREAT SERIES OF BOOKS WITH A PICTORAL HISTORYBy CustomerThese books are a great short history of the areas discussed. It uses captioned pictures to tell the story. This book deals with the history of downtown Tacoma. It breaks the timeline into 10 year periods of time from the beginning of Tacoma. As someone who lived in Tacoma when I was young. it brought back memories of what downtown Tacoma looked like.
