Call NumberZ-11614Date1880-1890SummaryView of Brownsville (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows Colorado Central Railroad track, a cabin and outhouse, frozen Clear Creek, the Fox & Hound Saloon, houses, the boiler house, and a mine railroad trestle for the Victoria Tunnel and Mendota Mine. The Cashier Mine and Mendota vein are on the mountainside in the distance.Physical Description1 photographic print : albumen ; 46 x 54 cm (18 x 21 1/2 in.) mounted on mat board 51 x 65 cm (20 x 26 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectBrownsville (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--19th centuryClear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--19th centuryCities & towns--Colorado--Brownsville--19th centuryMining--Colorado--Brownsville--19th centuryRailroad tracks--Colorado--Brownsville--19th centuryGeographic AreaColoradoCollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR711011614Type of MaterialAlbumen printsPhotographic printsNotesAccompanying note contains additional historical information by Fred Coughlin, Geo. Rowe and Desmond Coughlin. Historical information and identification inked on mat board and on photographic print. Inked on mat board: "Circle is about where old Brown Smelter was, near trees was Brownsville cemetery, about 25 people. Summer 1955 by Fred Coughlin. No.1) Fox & Hound Saloon, no.2) Pomeroy's KOP[?], no. 3) Wallace Cover, no.4) Lampohines [?], no. 5) Chapman's later below, no. 6) Mark Pope [crossed out] NO, no. 7) Bannons, No. 8) Paynes. Cemetery near Paynes, there were several graves, no. 9) Geo. Rowe, Mendota claim was called Pope's claim. 10 is cabin or very near where John Rowe first lived in 1880 when he came from England, cabin had old stone steps. No. 9 was Monty [?] Popes. Above no. 5 Brotherton? later ran Mt. View House in Sliver Plume (Ry yards?) North on Willis? St. Happy Jack lived next west to no. 9." "Mendota Mine & upper workings east edge of Brownsville. Probably 1884 to 1886. Note: no monument at 730 mine. This grave was put there in 1886. Notes by Geo. Rowe. Railroad to Graymont built 1885-1889 (Fred Coughlin). This part of R.R. was used as part of Y to turn trains at C & S Pavilion. Sign on building Victoria Tunnel and Mendota Mine. The large old town hall on main east of Jefferson also was moved from near here. James Garrett new for sure that it was Odd Fellows Lodge hall in Brownsville. I have old lodge book to prove this. Letter 100F can still be read on front of building. Town purchased this from Wm. Glasson for town hall in 1920, Fred Pal?? mayor. Geo. Rowe, Silver Plume, Colo. Bush Tunnel of Mendota over here, Geo. Rowe. " Inked on photographic print, identification numbers and: "Booths Motel here now, Sanitary, yes, no water pollution, Geo. Mayor 1919?," "All moved out to build 1st Mendota Mill by Billie Jewel, 1900. For? Robt. old jigg [i.e. jig] mill [??] gravity, Leo worked in it in 1911, Jig man." "Norwalk steam compressor." "Boiler House." "For coal tr. R.R." "Before monument in 1887, Monument Cliff." "Cashier Mine, Mendota vein."; Title inked on mat board. R7110116147
Mendota Mine & upper workings, east edge of Brownsville (1880-1890). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 06/12/2025, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1131094
