Central City
The Seymour District was organized around the same time as (and between) the Grant and Troy districts. As neighboring Grant was named for presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant, Seymour was named for Horatio Seymour, Grant's opponent in the election of 1868. A small camp, Central City, emerged but quickly faded. It was briefly revived during the early 1880s with renewed activity at Grant City, reaching a peak population of 25, but this too was short-lived and Central City faded into obscurity.
In 1905, Fred Irwin located several gold claims in the vicinity of old Central City, where he spent the remainder of his life. In the 1930s, he installed a tractor-powered crusher, four-foot ball mill, and jig concentrator. After Irwin's death in 1942, his property was passed to his nephew Ralph who sold it in the 1950s. Most, if not all, that remains at the old Central City site dates to the 1930s-era Irwin Camp.
