Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2005.01.024AB
Accession#:
2005.01
Credit Line:
Donated by Harold Fossum, Mike Blackwell, Sean Boily, Mickey Lasley, Jerry Schrader, Mike Grummet, Bob Garrison, Jim Geraghty, Willette Janes, Maritime Hydraulics, Michelle Bonnet, Mark and Esther Millea, Greens Creek Mine, Coeur Alaska Inc., Rich Gordon, and Anchor Electric.
Object Name:
Print, photographic
Title:
Sheep Creek
Studio:
Winter & Pond
Description:
A. Black and white photograph of Sheep Creek Valley. Sheep Creek is visible running through valley. Railroad tracks and telephone/electric poles run across photograph. Small wooden buildings viable PR bottom of photograph.
B. Black and white photograph looking up Sheep Creek. Railroad tracks visible running up valley toward two story wooden building. Inscription on bottom reads "#5 General view of Basin and upper Terminal Sheep Creek."
B. Black and white photograph looking up Sheep Creek. Railroad tracks visible running up valley toward two story wooden building. Inscription on bottom reads "#5 General view of Basin and upper Terminal Sheep Creek."
Notes:
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The Sheep Creek area went largely unnoticed until the summer of 1887, when gold and silver were discovered on the steep hillside between Silver Bow and Sheep Creek basins. Numerous claims staked, among them the Silver Queen, and mining began in earnest. In the early years, ore was sacked up and sent to smelters down south. Eventually a tram (railroad) bed was built to replace the eight horse pack train that hauled the ore to the mill from some of the mines at the head of the valley. The Nowell Gold Mining Company built an elevated tram track in 1895 to avoid the blockages of heavy snow. They purchased a small locomotive to replace the horses that had previously hauled the ore cars to the mill.
The Sheep Creek area went largely unnoticed until the summer of 1887, when gold and silver were discovered on the steep hillside between Silver Bow and Sheep Creek basins. Numerous claims staked, among them the Silver Queen, and mining began in earnest. In the early years, ore was sacked up and sent to smelters down south. Eventually a tram (railroad) bed was built to replace the eight horse pack train that hauled the ore to the mill from some of the mines at the head of the valley. The Nowell Gold Mining Company built an elevated tram track in 1895 to avoid the blockages of heavy snow. They purchased a small locomotive to replace the horses that had previously hauled the ore cars to the mill.
People:
Fossum, Harold
Blackwell, Mike
Boily, Sean
Lasley, Mickey
Schrader, Jerry
Grummet, Mike
Garrison, Bob
Janes, Willette
Bonnet, Michelle
Millea, Mark and Esther
Gordon, Rich
Blackwell, Mike
Boily, Sean
Lasley, Mickey
Schrader, Jerry
Grummet, Mike
Garrison, Bob
Janes, Willette
Bonnet, Michelle
Millea, Mark and Esther
Gordon, Rich
Search Terms:
railroad
mountains
river
Mining
mountains
river
Mining
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