Kerr & Giroux Lakes

Prior to the Cobalt Silver rush, Giroux Lake was a timberman's haven. During the 1880s, J.R. Booth owned a depot camp on the north shore of the lake that grew into a large enterprise containing warehouses, a farm, a cookery, and bunkhouses. So many men were on site that for a time it actually warranted its own post office By the 1890s everyone had left and stillness was yet again at hand, but not for too long.