| Georgetown Contributor(s): Rambeau, Sheryl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738581135 ISBN-13: 9780738581132 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) |
| Dewey: 979.4 |
| LCCN: 2010922854 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Northern California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Rambeau, Sheryl: - Author Sheryl Rambeau, a popular public speaker for civic and fraternal organizations, began collecting vintage photographs and historical information about Georgetown as editor of the Georgetown Gazette in the 1970s. In conjunction with the California State Library and El Dorado County Historical Museum, she depicts here the story of one of the Mother Lode s most productive mining communities. |