Idaho Springs, Colorado
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Idaho Springs is a statutory city in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. Located in Clear Creek Canyon in the mountains upstream from Golden, it lies some 30 miles west of Denver.
Aerial view from the east in 2006
Bird's eye view of Idaho Springs Colorado, 1882
Reproduction of ink rendering; shows Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, Colorado.
Colorado and Southern Railroad locomotive on exhibit in Idaho Springs
Georgetown, Colorado
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Georgetown is the territorial charter municipality that is the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 1,118 at the 2020 United States census. Georgetown ha
Idaho Springs, Colorado
…Area farther up the canyon. The town today is the largest community in Clear Creek County, but, for historical reasons, the county seat has remained at Georgetown. On January 5, 1859, during the Colorado gold rush, prospector George A. Jackson discovered placer gold at the present site of Idaho Springs, where…
Georgetown as seen from I-70
Georgetown, 1867
View west along Sixth Street in downtown Georgetown, with the historic Masonic Temple in the foreground
Grace Episcopal Church, built in 1870, now overlooks Interstate 70.