Inyo Mountains - Cerro Gordo Mining Camp
Mortimer Belshaw's general store, now used as a museum
General Store-Museum

Cerro Gordo's resident caretaker/historian Robert Desmarais at Mortimer Belshaw's general store, now used as a museum.

Belshaw Store now Museum, Belshaw House, Reddy's Garage (bottom) before conversion to church
Belshaw Store now Museum, Belshaw House, Reddy's Garage (bottom) before conversion to church
Belshaw Store now Museum, Belshaw House, Chinese Cook's Shack 2014
Belshaw Store now Museum, Belshaw House, Chinese Cook's Shack 2014

Belshaw Store now Museum, Assay Office upper right 2014
Belshaw Store now Museum, Assay Office upper right 2014
Belshaw Store now Museum 2014
Belshaw Store now Museum 2014

New Deck in front of store-museum 2017 (Friends of Cerro Gordo Collection)

New Deck in front of store/museum 2017 (Friends of Cerro Gordo Collection)


Mortimer Belshaw's general store (left) houses Cerro Gordo's museum today. Visible in the background just to the right of the museum are the remnants of the tramway structure below the Union Mine. The next structure is the assay office, and next to it, farthest right, is one of Lola's brothel cribs
Mortimer Belshaw's general store (left) houses Cerro Gordo's museum today. Visible in the background just to the right of the museum are the remnants of the tramway structure below the Union Mine. The next structure is the assay office, and next to it, farthest right, is one of Lola's brothel cribs

Remi Nadeau (left) and Mortimer Belshaw. Photographs are located inside Belshaw's general store, which now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum
Remi Nadeau (left) and Mortimer Belshaw. Photographs are located inside Belshaw's general store, which now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum

Mortimer Belshaw's general store now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum

Mortimer Belshaw's general store now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum


The Hunter House at the Cerro Gordo mining camp. Photograph located inside the museum, which was Mortimer Belshaw's general store
The Hunter House at the Cerro Gordo mining camp. Photograph located inside the museum, which was Mortimer Belshaw's general store
Mortimer Belshaw's general store houses Cerro Gordo's museum today. In the foreground are colored glass bottles and other artifacts collected from around the mining camp; at right is a "bottleneck tree" that a visitor made from some of them
Mortimer Belshaw's general store houses Cerro Gordo's museum today. In the foreground are colored glass bottles and other artifacts collected from around the mining camp; at right is a "bottleneck tree" that a visitor made from some of them

Mortimer Belshaw's general store now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum

Mortimer Belshaw's general store now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum


Mortimer Belshaw's general store now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum

Mortimer Belshaw's general store now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum


Mortimer Belshaw's general store now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum

Mortimer Belshaw's general store now serves as Cerro Gordo's museum