Saturday, July 3, 2010
Excerpt 1 from "Old Deadwood Days" by Estelline Bennett
Page 21--We lived on Williams Street at the head of the Wall Street stairs, in a story-and-a-half frame house with a mansard roof, a square bay window, and a scrap of a porch reached by steps that started for the bay window and then changed their mind and turned and led to the front door. From our steps my little sister and brothers and I, the safe haven of our home behind us, could look down through the narrow slit to Main Street and beyond to the foot of the mountain that stepped into Red Creek.
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p.87 -Gail(sic) Hill, slim, young, with a boyish idealistic face, was married into the Winn family that lived in tribal unity in a row of little houses on the narrowing point of Williams street and Centennial avenue, the family living farthest from the corner having the longest lot............He was my gr-grandpa (gold coach stage messenger of the Sept. 1878 Canyon Springs robbery) and my grandmother was born in 424 Williams, across from the Methodist Church. What street comes up the hill there?
ReplyDeleteSorry, I just saw your comment and your question! The street that comes up the hill between the Franklin Hotel and the old Methodist Church that I remember is Shine Street. Thanks for sharing!
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