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GREENWOOD 



The little community of Greenwood 5.5 miles west of Georgetown on 

 Highway 93, contains a few vestiges of its halcyon days. A ruined wine 

 cellar, dug'into the hillside and with its doorway framed with blocks of 

 meta-andesitic agglomerate can be seen on the west side of the main street. 

 Directly across the street there are two building foundations made of 

 slabs of schist set in mud mortar (Fig. 143). In front of the house 

 numbered 308 there are two fragments of a granodiorite stone "drag" 

 from an arrastre. In recent times they have served as hitching posts. 

 On the east side of the highway at the north end of town there is the 

 foundation of a long narrow building made of blocks of fieldstone of 

 meta-andesite agglomerate and Mariposa slate. 



AUBURN RAVINE 



On the old Sacramento highway, a mile west of Auburn, a few build- 

 ing ruins mark the former settlement of Auburn Ravine. The outstanding 

 remains to be seen are those of a composite brick and stone building which 

 was once a saloon. One section of the structure is made of blocks of schist 

 set in mud mortar (Fig. 144), the second section is of bricks set in 

 lime mortar (Fig. 145). Adjacent to this building, the walls of a semi- 

 subterranean ' ' cold house ' ' can still be seen. It is made of dry-laid blocks 

 of schist. 



AUBURN 



Auburn is one of the most vigorous of the surviving Gold Rush 

 towns. Located at the intersection of highways 49 and 40, its expansion 

 eastward up the hill has left a number of early buildings undisturbed 

 in the old town at the foot of the hill. The building of the J. E. Cory & 

 Son Feed Company in the 100 block of Lincoln "Way is constructed of 

 schist blocks (Figs. 148, 149). It has ornamental arches over the second 

 story windows made of sawed soapstone blocks (Fig. 150). The adjacent 

 brick building rests on a schist foundation. The opposite corner building 

 of the Auburn Electric Company is built of thick slabs of schist (Fig. 

 146) . Extending up Court Street from this building is a row of three old 

 brick structures, and directly across the street is a small abandoned 

 building made of schist slabs (Fig. 151). Lincoln Way, from Court 

 Street south, contains a number of old brick buildings notable among 

 which is the round front of the Union Bar (Fig. 147). 



West of Auburn on the foothill fringes of the Sacramento Valley are 

 several mining towns dating from the 'fifties. Among these are Ophir, 

 Penryn, Gold Hill and Virginiatown. At this last place are two splended 

 rammed-earth adobes (Fig. 152) built by Armour in 1852, and the 

 original home of the present meat packing concern. 



FIG. 140. Lime kUns near Cool, DMBS Pla-H4. 



FIG. 141. Arrastre stone of granodiorite, Kelsey, DMBS Pla-H5. 



