[1] The town's name was earned by its lucky reputation that prospectors could count on panning enough gold to "grubstake themselves into better times.

"[2] It was located 10.5 miles (17 km) northeast of Raymond on present day Road 600.

[3] Up to five thousand people lived in Grub Gulch from the mid-1880s to the late 1890s making it the mountain area's largest mining community at the time.

President Theodore Roosevelt visited Grub Gulch in 1903 and said, "this is a bully town".

[4] A combination of factors let to Grub Gulch's demise in the early twentieth century.