History in Headlines: A Walk Through Georgetown Colorado

614 Taos Street,Georgetown CO 80444

17 June, 2023

Description

Take a walk back in time through Georgetown, Colorado. Learn about its colorful past and diverse nineteenth-century community. People from every corner of the world, including recently freed people of color, came to this valley nestled in the heart of the Rocky Mountains to find a better life. Learn about Georgetown's link to Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane. Explore the evolution of Georgetown's historical landscape --which you may be surprised to find has not changed too much in over 100 years. Georgetown, homwe to nineteenth century mining magnates and all form of business entrepeneurs, is one of the few places in the United States that has retained its historic architectural landscape which dates back to the American European expansion into the West.