Throughout Phippsburg there are many historic buildings and sites. The Silk Stocking District is merely a street of houses that were thought to be where the wealthy people of the town lived. While the story may be a myth, if it were true, the people that lived on this street were the upper class. Their community was made up of engineers, firemen, and mine superintendents. They had larger and more luxurious houses and may have thought that they were a little bit better than everyone else.

The Silk Stocking District was named for the fact that the ladies that lived on this street were wealthy enough to afford silk stockings, while other women could only afford cotton. All of these facts are based purely on the idea of such a street and we cannot be completely sure if this was true or not. The few houses that made up the Silk Stocking District myth were located on the west side of Fourth and Routt. These houses were ordinary peak roof houses.

Some people think that the two large houses located directly south of Pine and Third Streets may have been the homes of mine superintendents and therefore the home of the upper class of Phippsburg at one time. These homes were two story homes that were built in a hill. They were finer than the houses on the mythical Silk Stocking District Street and so are most likely where the more wealthy individuals lived.

This information was gathered with the help of The Historical Society of Oak Creek and Phippsburg. Dutch and Neva Ebaugh, Lila Rider, Markie Williams and Mike Yurich were invaluable resources for this project. This description was written by Traci and Sarajane of Soroco High School, in May of 2006.