Re: Proof that not only the Eating House was built on stilts at Forks Creek.

Posted by Todd Hackett on
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Mike McKenzie wrote

Doug, your photo then is looking railroad west, correct? To the right is Blackhawk, etc. and to the left is Georgetown, etc. The depot would have been on the north bank of Clear Creek.

Dougs recent photo was taken westbound (railroad and highway). As the signs say, Blackhawk is to the right (or straight) and Idaho Springs (and therefor also Georgetown) is to the left. The depot would have been just to the left of the photographer, on the north side of the creek (really more the east side in that location). Here's a then and now using Doug's photo and a postcard photo taken from about the same spot. The old photo was probably taken from about where the station platform had been.


Here's the whole photo:


And for John, here's a close-up showing that the section house is now the post office. Also notice the Jefferson County sign. This seems to be misleading because while it appears to be in Jefferson County it is near the point where one would enter Clear Creek County. The photographer was in Jefferson County (as were the depot and lunch room), the Clear Creek County line is just past the section house according to the ICC map, so the section house and bridge are apparently in Jefferson County. The tracks heading toward Black Hawk are still in Jefferson County (entering Gilpin County just out of the photo), but the bridge over the north fork (behind the water tank in this photo) are in Gilpin County, and it appears that hthe small loading dock on the back of the wye (to the left of the water tank) is also mostly in Gilpin County.