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Apache Black Diamond Mine- The Black Diamond Mine opened in 1880 and almost 100 people moved to the site. They opened a post office in 1901-1908. Do not take the road marked Black Diamond Mine. Foundations, walls, tramway tower, mines and tailing will keep your interest.

Apache -Little remains of this tiny community with a monument dated April 29, 1834 to commenorate the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. The Post Office came in 1908 and was discontinued in1943

Arizmo-People from Missouri homesteaded here and the post office arrived in 1903 and was discontinued in 1906.

Aztec-Wilgus-The first name was Aztec but when the post office was reestablished it used the name Wilgus. Wilgus B. F. Smkith was an early homesteacer at this location. The first postmaster was William Wilgus, Smtih, brother of F.F.Smith. Will Smith was killed by Indians and his body found under snow. His small dog was keeping vigil nearby. Alhtough the post office is discontinued there are still a few people living here.

Bernadino-A small community with only a cattle loading corral and chute remaining. The post office opended in 1915 and discontinued 1917.

Black Diamond-Silver was minedhere and the black color of the ore gave the mine and post office its name. Foundations of the smelter are found but traces of residents harder to find. A rough road leads form the smelter tothe Dragoon mountains and along this road the walls of a large adobe are visible on a point overlooking the valley and further on there are a few fallen frame homes. Signs of an aerial tramway that hauled ore form th mine to the smelter can be found. Forest Service signs on Middlemarch Road-six miles from Pearce directs you to Black Diamond Peak. follow this trail until you reach the smelter.. Not recommended for passenger cars- Use four wheel dive vehicle or truck.

Boquillas- Located north of Fairbank with only one brick ruin. It was a railroad stop.

Boston Mill- Emery- Near Tombstone . It is necessary to cross private land to get to it and permission from the landowner is required. Only a few foundations remain.

Brannock- The Riggs brothers owned cattle and mining interests and the post office established in 1187 was named after the first name of one of the brothers. It was discontinued in 1891.

Brophy Well-The Bropy brothers built a ranch here calling it the Soldier Hole Ranch, name for the soldiers that stopped here for water found close to the surface. of the ground. Teamsters coming from Tombstone and Bisbee also made use of the water as they hauled lumber and timbe from the mills in the Chiricahua Mountains. The ranchhouse served meals and whiskey.

When in 1881, Jim Brophy was running cattle, he and his brother, Frank dug the well wkth one man digging at the bottom of the well and the other with an field glasses, watched for Indians. Shortly after Frank gave up the cattleman's life and went into mining at Bisbee.

In 1892, Jim asked for a post office for Soldier's Hole. The assistant post master didn't like the name and changed it toDescanso, spanish for "haven of rest". The post office was discontinued in 1894. Descano was a tiny mining town where Mexican turquoise was found.

Buena- Post office was established as Bueno in 1910 and discontinued in 1919. John H. Downer was the post master.

Brunchow's Cabin - Not actually a town but a camp and the most haunted and bloodiest cabin in Arizona. Twenty-one documented murders happened here.

A newspaper article in 1801 reported seventeen murders and also talked about the cabin being haunted. In 1860 Brunckow was working the mine with three other men and about a dozen Mexican helpers. He and two of his men were robbed and murdered at the cabinMexicans killed Frederick Brunchow by putting a rock drill through him and throwing him down into one of his mine shafts. The Mexican workers were blamed for the killings. Brunckow's San Pedro mine influenced Ed Schieffelin in his prospecting during 1877 of the outcrops to the northeast. It is said that he used the fireplace in the Brunckow cabin to assay some of his samples after he made the discovery that made Tombstone famous.

Only a fast deteriorating cabin abode ruins remain. Schieffelin, the founder of Tombstone fell in with William Griffith and a partner who came to the old Brunckow mine to do some assessment work. Schieffelin stood guard for them against the danger of Indian attack while they complete their work in the shaft. The old Brunckow cabin was a long, three-room adobe, and stood in a little dip in a valley a mile East of the San Pedro River.

Frederick Brunckow, a Berlin native and a graduate of the University of Westphalia built the adobe in 1858. He was exiled as a scholar and scientist who was active in the German revolution of 1848. He began to dig a mine near his house and got as far as the depth of a grave when an Indian arrow toppled him over into it, dead. This is only one of the stories associated with his death. Brunckow had a reputation of being somewhat of a German wizard that used occult means to locate the vast treasures underneath the ground. Any one who came after him to dig in or around his mine, found only death. Apaches killed two men and several claim-jumping fights over the worthless hold brought the death toll to seventeen.

The old house and the mine across from the old Charleston road has always had the reputation of being "haunted". Cries, moans and groans fill the night air and shadowy forms stalk the moonlight. The Schefflin brothers, Al and Ed along with Gird used this cabin when they were prospecting. It was here they made a permanent cam. Gird built a crude assay furnace in the corner fireplace with old adobe bricks and a sheet of iron. It was from this place that they discovered the site of the "Lucky Cuss" mine and soon after the Tough Nut mine. U.S. Marshal Milton B. Duffield was another who met assassination at the Brunckow mine.

Calabasas' post office was established October 8, 1866 and discontinued August 15, 1913. Calabasas was once a Papago Indian village, a Mexican garrison, a U.S. Military base, a mining camp, and a farming community before becoming a railroad stop that was determined to become the gateway to Mexico. The town was usd as a hideout in the 1870s and 1880s. the Boothill 'Cemetry in front of the home of ranchr Pete Kitchen is where he buried the many Indians and outlaws that he killed.

The Hotel Santa Rita was supposedly the finest hotel between San Fransisco and Denver. Unfortunately, Nogales took over as the gateway to Mexico and Calabasas declined into non-existence.it is located just across from the Mexican borner near Nogales.

May 5, 1886, Reports by Signal Officer of engageent with japaches near Calabasas by part of 10thy Cavalry; and three soldiers killed.

Camp Price-Just over the divide from Camp Rucker at the head of Tex Canyon. In 1881 there was a military outpost called Camp Supply during Gen Georg Crook's second tour of duty it was also a military telegaph station.

Cascabel- Cascabel is in Cochise County, in the Sierra Vista-Douglas metro area. The community name derives from Spanish for "rattle," because an early settler killed a large rattlesnake here
Located on the banks of the San Pedro River, 24 miles North of Pomerene. The old adobe post office and other foundations remain. It was a small farming community with a post office from 1916- 1936.

The Gamez Cemetery is located on private property at Cascabel, on top of a hill overlooking the San Pedro River Valley. There is a
large white cross at the top of the cemetery overlooking the graves below. We have been unable to determine in what year this cemetery was established with its 29 unmarked rock graves.
Due to the failing health and subsequent death of my husband's father in 1995, my husband, David Valdez Gamez and I have been maintaining this cemetery over the past several years. We have removed the weeds from the 29 unmarked rock graves and my husband has made and placed redwood crosses on
each of them. GAMEZ - "CASCABEL'S ONLY PIONEER FAMILY"

The land on which this cemetery is located was previously owned by Hope Jones, owner of the C-Spear Ranch in Cascabel and given to Ramon Diaz Gamez who retired from the C-Spear after more than 40 years of loyal service by Ramon and his family to Hope and the operation of the C-Spear Ranch. After Ramon's retirement, his son, Frank would move his family onto
the C-Spear where he, along with the cowboy expertise of his brother, Fred and under the close scrutiny of their father, they would continue the daily operation of the ranch until Frank's death in 1979. Fred would continue working as a cowboy on the C-Spear for a few more years after the death of his brother.

Francisco Valdez Gamez 09/09/1942 - 08/23/1979

11. In Loving Memory
Son"Nita" Roberto Ramon Martinez Gamez Juanita Amez Juanita Jean Matinex Gamez

This gentleman is no relation of the Gamez Family
but was a long time resident of Cascabel and a neighbor.
Grave is located within it's own fence - east side.

Jesus Ronquillo Salas 08/13/1907 - 1916 This is a rock grave - north of the Gamez fenced area on the wwest side. This young boy, who died of influenza, was the son of Juan & Dolores Ronquillo Salas and the 1st cousin of
Manuela Valdez Gamez.

Camp Rucker- In the Chiricahua Mats on the Coronado National Forest Land with still standing are the officer's quarters, barn, adobe runs, bakery and wooden stable. This camp was an army post during the Indian wars from 1870-1880. First called the Camp Supply and the name was changed in 1878 when Lt. Rucker downed in the nearby water. The Mc Laury brothers stole mules from the stables in July 1880. Lt. Hurst notified U.S. Deputy Virgil Earp to bring back the mules from the Mc Laury Ranch on the Babocomari River. He took his brothers, Morgan nd Wyatt with him and they found the mules with the brands changed. The matter was finally resolved at the OK Corral gunfight in Tombstone.

Cascabel- On the banks of San Pedro River, 24 miles north of Pomerene, Some foundation and an old adobe post office remains from the small farming community. The Post Office operated from 1916- 1936.

In this concrete vault at the Cerro Colorado Mine, John Poston, the brother of Charles D. Poston, the man who was known as the "Father of Arizona", is buried. He was murdered at the site in 1861.

Hello, contrary to your information and accompaning picture John Poston is not buried or entombed in the concrete you show. As historical writings document John was hauled by his brother and others to Arivaca by wagon to the mill site where another mexican uprising was put down by a black cook. He was buried there the same evening he was killed. He was buried in Arivaca by his brother, Brunkow the mining engineer and several others. The "grave" you have a picture of didn't exist 15 years ago except as a concrete floor with wall about 6-14 inches high and no top. Many people have used metal detectors both inside and out and stood in it. The man buried in the tomb was a mexican minero(miner) who was killed in a cave in in the mine in 1901.

Both Mexicans from Sonora and Indians pilliged the grave, stole the body and estroyed the grave in doing so. One of Postons great grand sons thought it was a good opportunity to build a monument but it has slowly been changed! John Postons grave over the last 10 years including the placement of a metal plate.

Five Mexican horse-thieves visited the Spoor Ranche and stole five horses and one mule, belonging to C.C. Dodos and Col. Couglass. The same night a valuable horse was stolen from the Cerro Colorado mine. A party sent in pursuit succeeded in re-taking the horse stolen from Cerro Colorado, and captured two of the thieves; one, named Roques, is notorious as a bold and expert horse thief. Both are in jail at Siroca, a town in Sonora. The horses belonging to Mr. Dodson were also captured, but left at Siroca. Nothing but the most summary measures will put a stop to these depredations by Mexican thieves. If citizens would adopt the plan of shooting, on sight, all strange and suspicious Mexicans found lurking about their premises, it would doubtless have a salutary effect.

Don Luis- lewis Williams and his brother Ben developed the mines in the Bisbee area. Mexicans called Lewis Don Luis. the post office was established in 1903 and discontinued in 1933. A Wells Fargo Station was established in 1904

Cerro Colorado Mine- On the 16th ult., five Mexican horse-thieves visited the Spoor Ranche and stole five horses and one mule, belonging to C.C. Dodos and Col. Couglass. The same night a valuable horse was stolen from the Cerro Colorado mine. A party sent in pursuit succeeded in re-taking the horse stolen from Cerro Colorado, and captured two of the thieves; one, named Roques, is notorious as a bold and expert horse thief. Both are in jail at Siroca, a town in Sonora. The horses belonging to Mr. Dodson were also captured, but left at Siroca. Nothing but the most summary measures will put a stop to these depredations by Mexican thieves. If citizens would adopt the plan of shooting, on sight, all strange and suspicious Mexicans found lurking about their premises, it would doubtless have a salutary effect.

Forty two Papago Indians, with their families, are laboring at this time. Also eight tame Apaches."in ;the 1864 census.

Charleston- Located on the West bank of the San Pedro river, ¾ of a mile north of where the Charleston road crosses the river, 9.4 miles Southwest of Tombstone, where the Bobocamri River runs into the San Pedro river. Fairly difficult to find is this a 1880s-milling town. Parking area off Charleston Road. Townsite is to the north of the highway Post office came in 1879 and discontinued 1888. A Wells Fargo Depot was established here in 1885,

The city was the mill town for Nearby Tombstone and a hidout for the outlaws Johnny Ringo, Curley Bill Brocius, Billy the Kid Claibourne and the Clantons, the McLaury's and Johnny-behind-the duece. When the mines flooded in Tombstone, the work stopped and by 1899 Charleston went ghost. Much of the town is destroyed. Some adobe foundations and half walls remain hidden among thick mesquite bushes and a lonely cemetery awaits visitors.

The site is owned by the BLM and part of the San Pedro Riparian National Cnservation area. The post office came in 1879 and stayed until 1888. Charleston was the Milltown for nearby tombstone. When the mines in Tombstone flooded, the work stopped in Charleston. By 1899, Charleston had gone "ghost". Charleston was as a battleground for war games many times over the years. The games destroyed much of the town. Jim Burnett, Charleston's Justice of the peace ran his courthouse, "his way". He decided what fines to charge offenders with all proceeds going directly into his pocket. What is left of Charleston hides among thick mesquite bushes today.

Jim Burnett was the Justice of the Peace and the law in Charlestn. He would arrst the violators, sentence them and keep all the fine money he collected. He ended his life when he blew up a dam belonging to William Green and two girls who were fishing in a nearby stream were drown. One was Green daughter, Green shot and killed burnett outside the Can Can Restaurant in Tombstone on July 7, 1897.

T Jerry Barton had a saloon in Charleston and shot a Mexican, Jesus Gamboa. who had been drinking with some his friends for several days and spent $40 in Barton's saloon. His friends left and Jesus went into the bar where the saloon owner refused him service. At the same time, the bar tended struck him on the back of his had with a glass. Jesus put his head on his arms resting on the table and the then Barton shot him, the ball entering his left shoulder and lodged in his right shoulder. The bar owner was arrest and put under $700 bond. Barton was also under bond for another murder several months earlier. The saloon owner claimed he hit the Mexican on the head with a pistol and that the gun went off accidentally.

Curly Bill Brocius and hsi gang made a round of the saloons here and then totally drunk decided to get religion and go to the church where services were being conducted. As they stormed the church, the participants fled along with the minister that was stopped nd had to deliver his sermon to the drunks. The men sang their hearts out and the hat was passed and the preacher got the most he had had gotten in a cllection. The next day Jim Brnett fied Curley Bill, twenty dollars for disturbing the peace.

Billy Claibourne, 19, shot and killed James Hickey on October 1, 1881. Hickey was drunk, feeling mean and reckoned the kid would add an easy notch to his gun. He followed Clairbourne around daring him to fight. Billy left Ben Wood's Saloon and crossed the street to J.B. Ayer's Saloon, with the taunting Hickey right behind hi. again Claibourne left because of Hickey and headed toward Hary Queen's Saloon.

Hickey stopped him before he could enter Harry Queen's. Claibourne said, "Stay away from e!" With those words he pulled his six-shooter and fired. A blue hole appeared Hickey's eyes and she sluped to the board sidewalk. Constable Clark arrested Claibourne, who stood trial in Tombstone but was acquitted because of Hickey's harrassment.

A marker in the parking lot commemorates the "Battle of the Bulls" of the Mormon Batallion. A group of Mormons enrolled in the U.S. Army at the time of the Mexican-American War. Passing through southern Arizona in December, 1846, they encountered herds of cattle which had run wild after Mexican settlers abandoned their ranches in the face of Apache opposition. Large numbers of uncastrated bulls made travel along the San Pedro hazardous to the unwary. The Mormons of General Cooke's command escaped serious injury during the bull attack, but several of their mules were not so lucky.

To reach Charleston, drive the hard topped road from Sierra Vista to the railroad beside the river. Walk the tracks down stream for 3/4 mile to the overpass at which point you must wade the river and climb the opposite bank.

Chiricahua- Cattle shipping point on the railroad northeast of Douglas. Very small settlement with a post office established in 1907 and discontinued 1921.

Chochise- Built in 1882 and in continuous operation since, The Cochise Hotel has a colorful Old West history. Once the Wells Fargo office, telegraph office, mail stop, etc. the hotel originally provided lodging and simple country cookin for the Southern Pacific railroad workers. Big Nose Kate, Doc Holliday’s girlfriend worked incognito at the hotel from 1889 to 1900. Owned at the time by John Rath…it appears Kate was not allowed to ply her ‘other’ trade at the hotel.

Local folklore also holds that Wyatt Earp and his brother stayed at the hotel while on the hunt for The Cowboys – one of the West's most infamous gunslinging gangs…apparently the Earps found them as one was hung by the Earps in front of the saloon in nearby Dragoon.

Throughout the decades the hotel changed hands and went from sometimes tender loving care to mild disrepair.

In 1958 the hotel was acquired by Elizabeth Fulton Husband a formidable and unusual character. Born to a venerable East Coast family who also owned substantial ranchland nearby and later founded the notable Amerind Museum, Elizabeth eschewed the privileged life and hooked up with a local cowboy. In an effort to cool the relationship, her family sent her away to Europe. Upon her return many months later, she re-declared her love and was subsequently allowed to marry the man who much later became known as “Grandpa Kenny” to his many grandchildren who now play a key role in running the Cochise Hotel. Kenny and Elizabeth had a wide circle of friends not the least of which were John Wayne and Alan Ladd. Both were reputed to be frequent guests of the hotel. Scenes of Ladd’s “12:10 to Yuma” were filmed at the hotel.

Today, after structural renovation and some guest comfort updating, the Cochise hotel is now a National Historic Registry hotel. The original pieces and artifacts have become rare living testimony to a time forever lost. It is truly a pleasure to discover this old adobe hotel, this Arizona ghost town and its history. Come see and experience The Cochise Hotel and enjoy Carla’s home ranch cookin and ‘honest beds’.

This town grew up around the Black Diamond Mine discovered in 1880. It gained a post office from 1901- 1908. Foundations of some of the building with a few walls, the mine and some tailings remain. Considered semi-ghost with many original building. There is a hotel and about 50 people living in the town that once held 3000 people. Cochise was a fuel stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1880s and at its peak had a population of 3,000 people. The hotel is open to the public and full of antiques. The trains still roar through Cochise but no longer stop for coal and water as in the past.

For a while train robbery had popularity in Arizona, despite a statute passed, though never enforced, making the crime one punishable by death. One of the most daring train robberies occurred about midnight, September 8, 1899. Express Messenger, Charles Adair, who had killed an over adventurous train robber on the same run the year before, stepped to the door as a Westbound Southern Pacific Express reached the small station at Cochise. As he looked into the muzzle of a revolver, he and the train force soon with their hands in the air, lined on the platform. The express car was detached and run a couple of miles Westward.

The messenger was ignorant of the safe combination so he opened the safe with dynamite. The loot was rich, comprising a bag full of gold and currency with value of at least $10,000. The four men involved struck into the Chiricauhuas unsuccessfully followed by posses headed by Sheriff Scott White and George Scarborough.

The truth concerning the Concise robbery came out a few months later. February 21, 1900, following a supplemental train robbery, that of the express car of a Benson- Nogales train. held up at Fairbanks. The hero of the affair was Express Manager, Jeff D. Milton who fought till incapacitated by a bullet wound that terribly shattered as arm. The wounded messenger, given the highest praise for his defense of his trust, in previous days had been a cattle association detective, a customs inspector and chief of police at El Paso.

The bandits numbered five. One of them one captured the next morning six miles from Tombstone where he had fallen from his horse and abandoned by his companions. He was Jee Dunlap, alias three-Fingered Jack, a well-known cowboy horse thief. He died a few days later in the tombstone hospital, having received in the body a buckshot load from Milton's shotgun. In a pass of the Dragoon Mountains, Sheriff White captured three of the outlaws who proved to be the leader, Bob Burns, and John and Lewis Owens. With them was the booty which consisted only seventeen Mexican pesos. The robbers had expected that the Fort Huachuca payroll would be in the express car safe. Soon afterward the score was made complete by the arrest at Cananea of Tom Yoes, alias "Bravo John" who had been shot in the leg.

Before Dunlap died, he gave the officers the first information concerning the Cochise robbery, implicating Burt Awlord, constable at Wilcox and William Downing, a well- to do- cattleman. There was some humor in the situation owing to the fact that Alword had been one of the noisiest and most active pursuers of the train robbers. Later. W. N. Stiles, Deputy Constable at Pearce, confessed the details of the whole affair. He and another cowboy, Marr Burts did the work alone but Alword and Dowing planed and furnished the supplies for the job. Alword had provided the dynamite, secured by breaking into a Wilcox powder house. Alword and Downing split the money immediately after the job. Stiles received only $480 for his share and his consequent dissatisfaction is the reason for his confession. It is evident, however, that Stiles suffered form remorse, though not for his crimes. Considered merely a witness for the government, he had some liberty.

He repaid confidence in April 1900 by entering the Tombstone jail and after shooting the jailer through the leg, releasing Alward and "Bravo John". Dowing refused to leave and Burts, already arrested in Wyoming, happened to be outside at the time with a deputy sheriff. So they took all the wagons they could find in the sheriff's office and took top the hills on stolen horses. Next, they were heard from at Alvord's ranch near Wilcox, where an announcement was made.. They boasted that they proposed to rob a few more Southern Pacific trains. Then the Tombstone prospector criticized the sheriff's office in connection with the escape, the sheriff's brother replied by hammering Editor Hatich over the head with a revolver.

In addition to various reward offered by the sheriff and territorial authorities, W.C. Greene offered $10,000 for the capture of the two outlaws who were understood to have especial animus against him. Alvord surrendered in 1902, tired of the free life of a roving bandit. He himself well pleased at being back where he would be sure of three square meals a day. He had been in the bandit business three years since he laid the plans for the train robbery at Cochise. He spent most of the intervening time in Sonora, where Captain Mossman of the Rangers followed him and secured expression of a wish to return to the United States if assured of reasonable clemency. But it was his old friend Sheriff Del Lewis that he surrendered to on the border near Naco. Alvord's way was made easier by the fact that he had assisted in the capture of Chacon, a notorious Mexican murderer. Discharged from custody in Tombstone, owing to the events of the territorial statute providing death for the only penalty on conviction of train robbery.They rearrested him and took him to Tucson on the charge of interfering with the Unitized States mail.

Alvord and Billy Stiles came into the limelight again in December 1903 when they dug out of the Tombstone jail and escaped for the second time. A week before Alvord, they convicted him on the charge of robbery of the mails and he was held in tombstone, merely as a witness in the case against Stiles. Alvord later went to Naco but had only two year imprisonment, managing to evade arrest on the other charges at the time of liberation at Yuma. He made his way to Panama where he bossed Spanish-speaking laborers for a while, then left for Argentina. They acquitted Downing on a charge of train robbery, for conviction would have meant hanging, but instead, he served a seven- year term on another charge. Downing used bad judgment in defying Territorial ranger Speed, after terrorizing Wilcox for months. After his death they learned that he was a member of the notorious Sam Bass gang of Texas and the Texas Rangers had driven him out of the state. Burts went to Yuma for a term and Stiles followed hi, who surrendered in the summer of 1900. Stiles was killed in December 1908 while working in Nevada where he went under the name of Largin. The killing was an assassination and the man shot in the back while leading a horse.

Near Chochise Memorial Park in Stronghold Canyon where tradition says Cochise was buried. His braves ran horses up and down the canyon to erase all traces of his grave.

Contention City-Contention City was a post office and milling town on the San Pedro River. The town was established in 1879 and served as the site of a milling operation for Tombstone's silver mines. It was also a station on the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad. It was from this station that the body of Morgan Earp, killed in tombstone, March 18, 1882 was placed aboard a train for the long journey to Colton, California.

Hank Williams, a prospector was camped near Ed Schieffelin when he struck it rich. One of Williams's mules got loose and will he chased it, Williams saw that the dragging halter chains were scraping metallic ore. He immediately filed a claim. It was hotly contested by Dick Gird, Schieffelin's partner. and the agrumnt that ensued led to the name "Contention.".The post office came in 1880 and lasted until 1888. William Bradley, known as Billy opened a saloon. There was the John mdDermott Saloon, the Western Hotel and a mercantile house, blacksmith shop, dairy, meat market and Chinese laundry.

The town had three mills, the Grand Central, Head Center and the Contention Mine and Mill. They were on the San Pedro River providing the water. When the Tombstone mines flooded, the mills closed and the town went ghost. The camp had the reputation of being rougher than Tombstone. More than 149 men worked here in 10 miles of holdings. Ten woman came with their husbands on theKinnear Stage Line or the Ohnesorgen & Walker line and the town grew up fast.

Post Office established April 6,1880.5 mi. north of Fairbank along the San Pedro River.Just 3 miles North of Fairbank and 8 miles West of Tombstone, the little city left a few foundations and a small cemetery.

To find Contention, take Highway 82, three miles North of Tombstone for approximately six miles. Take the first side road to the right across the river. Drive to second gate on the right and fllow this ranch road across tracks. Park you car at the river or as near as possible and Contention lies on the opposite side.

Copper Center- The was the location of a smelter with a post office in 1901. The date is discontinued is not available knowledge.

Cottonwood - Cottonwood was founded in 1879. The settlers at that time were farmers and ranchers. Between 1915-1917 Cottonwood began building their town. By March of 1917 Cottonwood began booming. Cottonwood appealed to the more venturesome, those who wanted their own home and business.

There was a certain reputation for lawlessness. Some who settled in Cottonwood were run out of the nearby company towns. Heavy bootlegging was abound, therefore attracting other non law abiding citizens as well as law abiding from other towns. Cottonwood was known to have the best bootlegging within hundreds of miles, attracting citizens from Los Angeles, Phoenix and closer-to-home folks.

$ 60,000 in gold coins and bullion were robbed from a Southern Pacific express train by outlaws Alvord and Stiles is 1899 near Cochise. The robbers buried the gold within l/2 of the old cabin, a few miles outside Cochise to the North and along the old trail between Wilcox and Cochise. Though Wells Fargo agents made a long search for the loot, they were unsuccessful. Miners Marvin and Dreher filled numerous bottles filled with gold and hid them in an orchard in Cottonwood during the Jerome mining days. Searchers found three bottles hidden in the 1960s.

May 7, 1917 ~ Jerome Sun Newspaper/ Visitors from everywhere are taking in the sights of the new city. Houses selling~ not many empty lots. Sunday was a great day for Cottonwood. The nice weather and perfect conditions for the young metropolis visitors motoring with their motor vehicles. Visitors came by the hundreds.

May 11, 1917 ~ Jerome Sun Newspaper/Busy times at Cottonwood as people scrambled for real estate. Lots were selling for $125.

In the early 1917, Arizona's Bootleg King, Joe Hall ~ AZ Bootleg King, prize whiskety still blew up burning much of the town. Since most of the buildings and homes were of wood, a fire only meant rebuilding the town. The town of Cottonwood was indeed feeling the effects of the good times promised by the erection of the Extension Smelter. New buildings were put up rapidly housing various kinds of businesses.

Follow Geromino Trail from Douglas. Cottonwood is just below the Outlaw mountains on the right side of the trail with numerous buildings.

Courland - A few foundations and part of a store is all there is at this ghost close to Gleeson- It got a post office in 1909 and it lasted until 1942. As a large town, Coutland had 2000 residents and two newspapers, one The Courland Arizona. When the mines played out the town went ghost. It was W.J. Young who owned the Great Western mine who named the town for his brother Courtland. There are many open shafts around the town creating a danger for those exploring. Today there is only a skeleton of a jail, two building and a single resident of the town founded on the back for four large mining companies, The Great Western, Calumet & Arizona, Copper Queen and Leadville back in 1909. A Wells Fargo Depot was established in 1910..

A tunnel served as the jail until the jail was built. a Mexican decided to burn his way out so one night he placed his bedding against the tunnel door and set it on fire. He assumed that the door would burn but it didn't. Instead the smoulding bedding filled the tunnel with smoke and nearly killed him. He was found by Deputy Sheriff Bright in the morning when he brough in breakfast for his prisoner. h found the Mexican unconscious and revived him with a dose of fresh air.

Courtland was a copper mining camp on a short spur of the Arizona Eastern Railroad in the southeast corner of the Dragoon Mountains. The town was named for Courtland Young, one of the owners of the Great Western Mining Company. Post Office established March 13,1909. The town is 10 miles South of Pearce or West of Hwy 191 on Courtland Rd. or three miles North of Gleeson on the Pearce Road. Dirctions are well marked.

The cemetery is located near the ghost town of Courtland, which is on the Pearce Road, some 11 miles south of Pearce and 3 miles north of Gleeson. It is 19 miles south of Tombstone. The cemetery, on land owned by E.Molina, was in use as late as 1918. There are some 85 graves that have not been identifeid and only 4 on which the inscriptions are legible. It was surveyed in the the summer of 1971 by Mrs. John Schwartzmann and Dr. and Mrs. E.B.Jolley.

Transcribed by Vynette Sage from information was supplied to the Arizona Death Records, Volume 3, by Charles H. Field, Jr. of Douglas, Arizona.

Crittenden [Camp]: Alert reader Erik has visited the ruins of this old Army camp as shown on Roskruge's 1893 map of Pima and Santa Cruz counties. Armed with another map from an extensive report on the camp buildings that was done by Assistant Surgeon Semig during the camp's occupation he has confirmed their authenticity.

Apparently that map shows the barracks having a distinctive 'C' shape which is still visible in the ruins recently. Judging by the map, he writes, the remaining stone building was probably either the guard house or part of the quartermaster's buildings. The site is on private land between Sonita and Patagonia. It has a caretaker so ask permission..

Originally known as Casa Blanca, this town had its origin in the 1860's. There was a rail depot and much mining activity. The only standing building is a two-story hotel built in 1885. By 1900, most residents had moved elsewhere as the mines played out. In 1887, an earthquake damaged the hotel and the second story was removed and that is how it stands today.

Dahl- The post office was established at the Dahl ranch, owned by Robert Dahl in the South Pass of the Dragoon Mountains in 1905. Date it was discontinud is not known.

Dos Cabezas /Ewel's Station/ Ewel's Spring- The early name for this location was Ewel's Springs, Ewel's station, one half mile East of the present town.

- This 1885 Wells Fargo Station was also a branch station for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The post office was established April 8,1879.

The town's name comes from the twin peaks it was built at the base of, and literally means "two heads," and has also been called Dos Cabezos. Continuing east on AZ-186 and turning to go North through Apache Pass which was the East-West road into Southern Arizona before the railroad went in (1880) along the present route of I-10 on the North side of the Dos Cabezas Mountains.

A short way from the road are the remains of the old Army fort at Apache Pass. Post Office opened in 1879, then closed in 1860. The ruins seen from AZ Hwy 186, are fifteen miles Southwest of Wilcox, at the foot of the Cabazas Mountains.

It was a hell-raising town and rustler's hangout. At one time it had a school, hotels, stores, a newspaper and of course many saloons. The post office came in 1879 and discontinued in 1960. First settled in 1878, the town had a barbershop, a brewery, general store, brickyard, hotel, blacksmith and about 300 people.

The mines worked at a snails pace over the next 80 years and the town finally lost its post office in 1960. A Mexican wagon train loaded with a large amount of treasure including a life-sized gold statue of the Virgin, a huge store of gold dust and nuggets and a large gold cross was bound for Santa Fe and the wagon train camped in the dry bed of a creek between the two hills at the springs at Dos Cabezas.

A men went to sleep after burying a large amount of treasure. Apache Indians killed all but one small boy who escaped the massacre. Forty-five years later, he retuned to search for the treasure but was not successful.

The road from Wilcox is built atop the old railroad-grade to Dos Cabezas, which was the ore-shipping center for the area, and looking back west and downward from the townsite this is clear.t is necessary to cross private land to get to it and permission from the landowner is required. Only a few foundations, a few residents and lots of adobe structures and ruins left behind. It was first a watering place for the stage lines and then a mining community.

Right near the highway on AZ 186, On SR 186, 15 miles Southeast of Wilcox or 16 miles of Fort Bowie.

Double Adobe- This nearly abandoned little community was named because of a two- room adobe builidng with eighteen inch walls having several gun ports. The Double Dobe Ranch was in existance when Tombstone was flourisihing at a mining camp in the 1880s. The ruins still exist.

Dragoon Springs-Traveling through Arizona prior to the Civil War, the Butterfield Overland Stage went from spring to spring, driven by the constant need for water by horses, mules and men.

In the middle of the Arizona desert there are four unattended and long forgotten graves. They are the final resting place of four members of the Captain Sherod Hunters' Company of Arizona Rangers,Sergeant Sam Ford, a private known only as Richardo, and two other soldiers whose names have been lost to history. One of them may be John Donaldson, based on an obituary which appeared in a Tucson newspaper. However, there is nothing at the gravesite itself to indicate this, and it is unknown as to which, if either, of the two unmarked graves belong to him.

The beginning of their end started long before the battle. Arizona wanted to be their own state and not part of the United States Territory of New Mexico. Requesting Congress to creat a separate Arizona Territory met with no sucess and Abraham Lincoln becan his presidency in November of 1860.

When in December, 1860, seven Southern states left the Union and the following year met in Montgomery, Alabama to form a new country, the Confederacy. Taking their lead in March of 1861, a group of Arizonians met at Mesilia to leave the rule of the United States and join the Confederate States of America.

In March, 1861, a second Convention met at Tucson where a delegate was elected to represent them in the Confederate States Congress. Their plan was waylayed by the presence of large garrisons of Federal troops. In July 1861, Confederate military forces under the command of Lt. Colonel John Robert Baylor invaded the U.S. Territory of New Mexico. John Baylor was a famous Texas lawyer, politician, frontiersman and Indian fighter who had served as an ardent advocate of secession at that State's Secession Convention in February 1861.

On August 1, 1861, after defeating the Federal garrison of Fort Filmore, Baylor declared the creation of a new Confederate Territory of Arizona and installed himself as Governor. He had some tough nuts to crack and one was the Apache bands which were terrorizing the territory. Apache raiding parties burned wagon trains, raided and looted mines and ranches, and even besieged sizeable towns such as Pinos Altos and Tubac. Prisoners taken by the Apaches were often tortured horribly. The entire Territory was in a state of terror and chaos, and it was up to Baylor to find a way to restore order.

Taking a page from the history of his home State, Baylor decided to raise a regiment of Rangers for frontier defense. Like the famous Texas Rangers with which he was familiar, this regiment of Arizona Rangers would consist several companies of cavalry, which would patrol the frontier areas of the Confederate Territory of Arizona. Recruiting for this regiment began in December 1861, with Sherod Hunter (a native of Tennessee who had settled near the present town of Deming, New Mexico, in the mid-1850s) commissioned as Captain of the first Company.

The company was enlisted for "three years, or the war," and was composed of (to quote the MESILLA TIMES, the largest newspaper in Arizona at that time) "picked men, inured to the hardships of frontier life, and conversant with its details." The company was mustered into the Confederate service on January 25, 1862 at Mesilla. Sergeant Ford and the two unknown soldiers who lie buried here today probably joined the company during this period

Captain Sherod Hunter and Company A, Baylor's Regiment of Arizona Rangers, were ordered to proceed to Tucson on February 10, 1862. They arrived on February 28, 1862, and held a formal ceremony at which they raised a Confederate First National Flag over the town plaza on March 1. It was probably in a rush of patriotism following this ceremony that Private Richardo, a Hispanic youth from Tucson, joined the company.

It is unknown if any of the four men buried at Dragoon Springs took part in the engagements which Captain Sherod Hunter's command fought against the Union California Column during March and April of 1862. Probably they did not, as most of Hunter's command remained in Tucson as a garrison throughout the campaign.

On May 5, 1862, these men were among a foraging party which had been sent from Tucson to gather stray cattle in the vicinity of the abandoned Butterfield Overland Stagecoach Station at Dragoon Springs, located about 16 miles east of present-day Benson, Arizona. As they entered a narrow box canyon wherin the springs are located, the party was ambushed by a large band of Apache warriors (such as the one shown above), numbering as many as 100 men and commanded by the great war chiefs, Francisco and Cochise.

Most of the Confederate force managed to escape with their lives, but they left behind 25 horses, 30 mules, and four of their comrades...the men who have found their eternal rest at Dragoon Springs.

Thus, these men have a unique place in the history of the War Between the States. They are the most westerly Confederate battle deaths of the war, and the only such to occur within the confines of what is today modern Arizona.

Many adobe ruins at this stop of the Butterfield- Overland stage route that went through Arizona in the pre Wells Fargo days. Names for the Dragoon Mountains which were named for the Third U.S. Calvary Dragoons that patrolled the area. This site served weary travelers on their way across Arizona. The site is preserved and viewed through a fence. Ewell Spring was the important water spring West of Apache Spring. Here they built one stage depot and in 1870, discovered gold and silver in the Don Cabazas Mountain, over the spring. This became the 1885 Wells Fargo station. In 1882, Apache chief, Cochise is said to have put two heavy iron-bound chests filled with gold coins from the Butterfield stage in his hideout, later known as Cochise Stronghold Canyon in the Dragoons. The Apache vowed that no white man would ever find the hidden chests, located in a place where even a horse cannot travel. They are still there.

From Dragoon take Four Canyon Road (Forest Road 687) south four miles then follow the signs to Jordan Canyon. The town is also bisected by State Highay 186- fifteen miles South of Wilcox.

Duquesne-On Rt. 186, 19 miles E of Nogales.Established around the turn of the century, this former mining center had peak population of 1,000 residents, including Westinghouse of Westinghouse Electric, who lived here while taking some $4,000,000 in ore from his nearby mine. P.O. established in 1890 some ruins still visible. The. Washington Camp 3/4m beyond.

Whitewater School- Whitewater School- 2 1/2 miles SE of Elfrida, on a single headstone at back of the property:

Lovelady, Thomas Henry Benton 1840 - 1919
Lovelady, Delila 1847 - 1910
Wells, baby 1922 or 1925 no marker
Wilmeth, Mary E (Lovelady) 1873 - 1917 died in childbirth along with baby boy.
Wilmeth Fred C 1905 - 1918 Mary's son, died from kick by a horse

Dragoon- Small town on the S.P.RR two miles from the Dragoon Springs Station in 1882. Post office established in 1881 with a population of twelve. Wells Fargo established a station there in 1885.

Elfrida-G.I. Van Meter donated the land in the name of his mother to the railroad and in returned they allowed him to name the place after his mother. Post office came in 1915.

Emery- This ghost is near Tombstone. It is necessary to cross private land to get to it and you need permission from the landowner. Only a few foundations remain.

During the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) troops and supplies needed to reach California from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, via the uncharted lands that now make up the states of New Mexico and Arizona. An expedition led by General Stephen Watts Kearny explored the territory from Fort Leavenworth to California.

Lieutenant William Emory (pictured) led a topographical unit on this expedition to chart the unknown terrain. In addition to his military duties, Emory kept a record of the plants and geographic features he saw and also provided a great deal of information about the residents of the Hispanic southwest and the political situation at that time. The residents of these thinly populated villages and towns clearly hoped that the US Army could provide more protection from Apache raiding than the shaky government down in Mexico City had any intention of providing.

Fairbank - Fairbank was a railroad station along the San Pedro River, established in 1882 on the El Paso and Southwestern line. It was the closest railroad connection to Tombstone, and remained active through the 1930. This abandoned ghost town is located along the San Pedro River off State Hwy 82. The railroad was its beginnings in 1881 and soon was the closest depot to Tombstone, the areas largest town. It was the shipping center along the north side of the State Highway 82, 5.9 miles West of State Highway 80 and four miles South of Contention.

Originally called Junction City, Kendall and then Fairbanks in 1883, honoring N.K. Fairbank, a prominent businessman from Chicago that financed the railroad.

Arizona Republican, July 8, 1897- Last Thursday in Tombstone, William C. Greene of the San Padro, shot and killed James C. Burnett. Mr. Greene claims that he ascertained beyond a shadow of a doubt that Burnett had occasioned the blowing up of his (Green's) dam on the San Pedro, thereby causing a rush of water which overwhelmed and drowned his little girl and her companion. Edna Cochran. Mr. Green also claims that Burnett had at different times threatened his life. It is known that there has been ill feeling between the two men, who own neighboring ranches below Fairbank.

The Tucson Star states that Burnett bore a bad reputation and is said to have killed several men. However that my be, Burnett was a man who was much given to threatening and whose name came before a good many grand juries. If Mr. Green is able to show good reason for believing that Burnett was responsible for the blowing out of his dame and the consequent death of his child and can also show, as he claims, that Burnett had threatened his life but a few minutes before the shooting, there will be a strong tide of popular sentiment in favor of the defendant.

His preliminary trial was set for Saturday but on account of the illness of District Attorney English was postponed till today. From July 2, 1897- Marshal Meade received a dispatch from Tombstone which said, "Bill Greene killed Jim Burnett here today". There were no further particulars but it is believed at the Marshal's office that another death had led to the tragedy of today.

About a week ago a dam on the San Pedro owned by Mr. Greene was blown out. It so happened that a little daughter of Mr. Green's was playing in the river with a companion from Bisbee. In the rush of the water, which followed the blowing up of the dam, both children were drowned. Greene offered a reward of $1000 for information that would lead to the discovery of the party who had blown up his dam and thus brought death in his family and it is believed to be the sequel of today's killing. From July 4, 1897 Green's statement taken from the Tombstone Prospector's report of the inquest. "

The most important witness' sworn in was John Montgomery who testified" When Mr. Greene came into town with Mr. Scott White. He came to his stable and asked that his team be put up, and also left a pistol with him. I locked it up and later, just before the shooting, probably two hours later, he asked me if there was anyone working in Hart's old shop. He sat in a chair until I went and got the pistol. He apparently started, as I supposed for the shop but he did not put the gun in his pocket as far as I saw. He turned around by the corner of the office and accused Jim Burnett of having his dam blown up. Burnett made a denial in words and then there were three shots fired and Burnett fell. "

Both men are well known through the county having been pioneers before the creation of Cochise County. Burnett at the time of his death was Justice of the Peace at Pearce and owned a ranch on the San Pedro near the ranch of W.C. Green.

From July 6, 1897- The funeral of James C. Burnett who was the victim of the tragedy of yesterday at the hands of W.C. Greene took place this afternoon from the undertaking parlors of C.B. Tarbell and was lately attended by a concourse of relatives and friends.

The deceased was 67 years of age and at the date of his unfortunate end was the Justice of the Peace at Pearce. His family and immediate relatives consisted of Mrs. Burnett and two daughters, Mrs. Marks and Mrs. Frankie Bauer, also George Hand and his wife, the latter a granddaughter of the deceased arrived early this morning and were present to consign the last mortal remains in their resting place.

In February, 1900, the notorious Billy Stils-Burt -Alword gang attempted a robbery in Fairbanks. with the two infamous leaders were the Owen brothers, Brown, Barvo Horn and Three Fingered Jack Dunlap. They intended to rob the Wells Fargo box from the express car of the train when it stopped at Fairbank station to take on passengers. The lawman Jeff Milton ws guarding the payroll and when he refused to hand over the treasure, the men opened fire. Three Fingers Jack wa injured and Milton's arm was badly shattred. Milton knowing he was loosing alot of blodd and fearing that he would pass out, opened the opposite door of the Wells Fargo express car and threw out the key to the payroll box.

The gunshots brought the ownspeople and the gang was forced to tie Three Fingered Jack to a horse and made their retreat. the next day, Jack Dunlap was found by a posse, nine miles from Fairbank where his companions had deserted him. He loved only long enough to made a confession. Jff milton was rushed to a hospital in San Franciso where they thought they would have to amputate his arm, however this did not happen and he did regain partial use of his arm.

Fairbank is now an abandoned "ghost" town located along the San Pedro river off State Highway 82. Its life as a town began with construction of a railroad in 1881, and it soon became an important depot as well as the closest railroad stop to Tombstone, then one of the largest western cities (15,000 in 1882). Across from the tracks at the satiion is a flat, rich land near the river which was called the Chinese Gardens where Orientals raised crops of vegatabls for the town. The town, however was built on an old Mexican land grant, the San Juan de las Boquillas y Nogales, which was bought by the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company in 1901. The company evicted all potential land owners, but continued to lease the mercantile building and a few residences well into the 1970's.

The Adobe Commercial Building, recently stabilized by the BLM, consisted of a general store, a post office and a saloon when Fairbank became the official name May 16, 1883. The name refers to N.K. Fairbank of Chicago, who helped finance the railroad.

The Montezuma Hotel was constructed in 1889. It was just south of the Adobe Commercial Building, where Hwy. 82 is now.

The Small House was built in 1885 is an example of a once common house type. It was divided into two rooms.

There were at least 10 burials here, none of them were legibly marked. The cemetery is near the town of Fairbank which was on the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is on private land and closed to the public because of vandalism.

The Schoolhouse, constructed in 1920 with gypsum block made in Douglas AZ, was in use through the 1930's.

The House probably used by a schoolteacher, built in 1925. Porches were originally screened and later infilled in 1954.

The Stable and Outhouses date to the early 1940's during a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project that operated out of Fairbank.

Buildings still standing at the site include the Adobe Commercial Building, which consisted of a general store, post office and saloon, a small house, built in 1885, and a schoolhouse built of gypsum block in 1920. The stable and outhouses date to a WPA project that operated out of Fairbank during the depression era. Post Office established May 13,1883. Visitors can hike 1.5 easy miles north to the masonry ruins of the Grand Central Mill. (Parking area along Hwy. 82.) The town is located on State 82, six miles West of US 80.

Fittsburg- The location of the mine and the mill associated with Pearce. It is one mile East of Pearce on Pearce road. It was the Commonwealth Mine which he sold for $250,00 but his wife make the new owners agree to let her run a boarding house beside the mine until 1930, in case of "hard times".

Fort Bowie- Adobe ruins fill this National Historical Site. Established in 1862, the Fort's purpose was to help fight against the Apache Indians and Geronimo. They built the fort in 1868 after Geronimo's final surrender. When it finished serving as a fort, it served travelers until 1894. The land sold in 1911 for $1.25 to $2.50 an acre. Many of the buildings were dismantle until saved in 1964 as a Historic site. The commanding general at Fort Bowie during the 1885-86 campaign were General George Crook and Nelson Miles.

After Geromino's final surrender in 1886, he and his followers ow numbering only 34 were brought to this fort where they were loaded into wagons to begin their journey to Florida where the remainder of the Chiricauhuas at San Carlos had already been exiled. Geronimo later died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Be sure to see the remains of a Butterfield Stage Coach Station, Fort Bowie's military cemetery, The Chiricahua Apache Indian Agency, Apache Springs, the original fort and the visitor center.

Fort Newell- Located on the outskirts of the border town of Naco this abandoned outpost is easy to find. The barracks are still in good condition. . The army used this as they fought against Pancho Villa. Newell Cantonment is an abandoned outpost on the outskirts of Naco, Arizona, 200 yards from the Mexican border. After Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, the Army decided to establish a more permanent foothold in Naco than the temporary encampment set up 2 miles east from this location

The land was leased for 10 years from John J. Newell, the cantonment was built, and the post was kept as an outpost of nearby Fort Huachuca and manned by black cavalrymen of the 9th and 10th Cavalry -- the "Buffalo Soldiers."

The land reverted to John J. Newell in 1926 and has remained in private hands since, crumbling into the dirt. There are eight barracks buildings at the site, formed into two square formations with a small parade ground in the middle of each square for formations.

Fourr's Fort - About four miles East of the Dragoon. Miner cabins and a major stone and adobe resident, remnants of a mill and a few other structures. Fourr's Fort was a Butterfield Stageline stop located at the site. No post office but the ruins of the stage atop are still visible.

Galleyville- Begun as a mining camp, Galeyville is a few miles north of Paradise. Since the area was almost inaccessible from the Tombstone side, it became a favored resort of rustlers and smugglers from both sides of the border. It was known as the hangout of Curley Bill Brocius and his gang. Post Office established January 5, 1881 and discontinued May 31, 1882.

Named after John H. Galey, who was an oil man from Texas who bought a silver claim and opened the Texas Mine, built a smelter and organized the Txas Mining and Smelting Company along with this town. The town had four hundred people with leven saloons, six stores, two hotels, two restaruants, two butcher hshops, two blacksmith and wagon shops, three lumberlards, a dairy, a jeweler, lawyrs, a notary public, an assayer, a justice of th peace, physician, shoemaker, A Wells Fargo office and a newspaper. Galeyville only lasted 2 years and had quite a reputation for being a hangout for outlaws, especially Curly Bill Brocious and Johnny Ringo.

The town was a hangout for outlaws and rustlers who would ride into Mexicco and steel cat5tle. They brought the cattle across the border near Gleyville whre th stock whould be divided, branded and sold to Arizona ranchers.

Curley Bill always wore a wide brimmed sombrero with fancy boots and two criss-crossed gun belts for his twin forty-fours. He once assisted Deputy Sheriff William Breckenridge acting as his depputy assessor to ride out and collect taxes from the rustlers which they collected from all of the thieves they could find.

His guns did not stop him from almost getting killed here in 1881. Jim Wallace, got mad at Brocius and being drunk went out and got a rifle and shot bill on the left side of his neck just below the ear and excited his right jaw. He did live and later reportedly killed by Wyatt Earp at Iron Springs but then seen after that. Some say he visitied Tombstone in the 1920s.

It is uncertain whether the mines played out or Galey got in over his head, but he made good on his debts and the town died. The smelter was moved to Benson and the buildings to Paradise and Galeyville. At the peak, Galleyville had 500 residents.

When Tombstone was "cleaned-up" many of the outlaws migrated to the town of Galleyville in the Chiricahua Mountains. There were little communities everywhere with long distances between them. It was pretty easy to get by with murder... or worse. .

Outlaw Johnny ring was found dead here in Turkey Creek Canyon with a bullet in his head put there by Wyatt Earp in 1882. He is buried on the Barfoot Trail between the Smith Ranch and the Sanders ranch about 10 miles West of Galeyville. Drive east on Highway 181 fo 12 miles to where 181 turns sharply left. Go about 12 miles straight ahad on the gravel West Turkety Creek road to the Sanders ranch on the left. His grave is a short distance West turkey Creek. You must get permission from the Sanders Ranch before entering the property. Galeyville is southwest of Wilcox.

Not much left here for most of the wooden buildings were torn down and the lumber taken to Paradise. The sgn is located on hill l/4 mile off dirt road from Paradise to San Simon- spproximately l l/2 mile North of the former.

Garces- See Reef-Palmerlee- The ghost town of Garcés, south of Sierra Vista, was once a mining camp with a population of approximately 200 people. Garcés went through numerous name changes before the townspeople settled on Garcés to honor Father Fransisco Garcés.This site was first a mining camp known as Reef due to a local geological feature which gave the name for the local Ref Mine. . Then the name was changed to Palmerlee after the new owner. Then finally changed to Garce to honor Fr Fransisco garces. The post office opened in 1901 as Reef and was changed to Palmerlee in 1904 and changed to Garces in 1911 and discontinued May 24, 1926. Garces went through many names before becoming Garces, and reported about 200 people at its peak. Garces had a florist, a meat market, a second hand store, a shop, boardinghouse, school, and more. Today nothing remains of the town, ten miles South of Sierra Vista.

Gleeson -A copper mining town sets approximately 14 miles East of Tombstone, one mile West at the end of the pavement, nine paved miles West of US 191. It is about 28 miles North of Douglas.

Called Turquoise with several ruins and many standing buildings remain, along with a few residents. The post office came in 1890 under the name Turquoise and closed in 1894. Gleeson's post office came in 1900 and lasted till 1939. When the town was Turquoise it was a few miles away. Gleeson had 500 people mining copper. In 1912, a fire burned down 28 buildings but the town rebuilt. When the mines played out in 1940, Gleeson became the semi-ghost is it today.

The Indians mined decorative turquoise here and when the white man came into the are, they found copper, lead and silver but kept the name Turquoise.

Jimmie Pearce found gold by Commohnwealth lot in 1894. Gleeseon registered the "Leonard" or "Copper Belle Mine". Other mines in the area wee the Silver Belle, Brother Johathan, Pejon and Defiance followed by the Copper Belle. Post Office established October 15,1900. 5 mi. south of Courtland. When the price of copper went down after WWI, the mine closed and 500 people stayed digging copper out of the mines until 1940 and Gleeson went ghost.

A later turquoise mine was owned by Tiffany and Company. In AngIo-American times John Gleeson ran cattle here, although some copper mining was also done. Ruins and a cemetery mark the town.

Gleeson is on the Gleeson Road approximately 18 miles East of Tombstone or seven miles West of Elfrida on Hwy 666.

Goodwin-Location is unknown but the post office was establishd in 1875 and discontinued in 1880.

Hamburg-Located in Ramsey Canyon and named for its founder Henry Hambur who located a mine called the Hamburg and later was the president of Princeton Copper and business manager for the hartford-Arizona Copper, two of the mining companies woriking at Hamburg. The town supported 150 miners employed by the mining companies developing the area one of which was the Stromberg and Hamburg group of copper mines

The town had saloons, boardinghouses, general stores and dwellings of one kind or another. A stage ran to Hereford and the Hartford-Arizona Cpper Mining company owned a hotel and general store. The Hartford-Arizona Mining Company owned a hotel and general merchandise store.

It is six miles from Portal but most of the wood buildings moved to Paradise. Some foundations are found with a few remnants. The post office was establishd in 1906 and the date of discontinuance is unknown.

Harshaw- Harshaw grew into a lively mining camp with two thousand reisdent in the 1870s. Th bom only laster until the turn of the century when most left and only a few Mexican American families remain, one of the raising peacocks. At its zenith harshaw had several stores, saloons, dance halls and one of the territory's earliest newsppers, the Buillion. Much of the town is destoyed. The cemetery is on a rocky hill as you enter Harshaw, eight miles Southeast of Patagonia.

Hereford-Just on the northern boundary line of the community of Palominas lies what used to be the town of Hereford. The current post office for Hereford is located about nine miles west of the original one, and Hereford itself is a sprawling unincorporated area with no town, just homes and 'manufactured' homes.

"Hereford, named after a territorial lawyer, Benjamin Hereford, was founded in 1880, and there were several small mines doing very well in the nearby hills until around 1902 when they started playing out. Like many other places along the San Pedro, cattle raising and farming took the place of the loss of the mines' productivity. The El Paso & Southwestern railroad put in shipping pens and some of these are still here. The community always had several rodeos each year and always drew people from far and wide. In 1904, the first Wells Fargo Station and Post Office were built.

Some of the most famous cattlemen held interests near Hereford. One was John Slaughter who moved to the San Bernardino Ranch 16 miles east of present-day Douglas in 1884. In 1885, Colonel William Greene moved his headquarters to Hereford and built one of the finest homes in the area. He also shipped most all of his cattle from Mexico and the United States from the shipping pens in Hereford. Frank Moson was another rancher who owned one of the finer cattle ranches in the county.

The old store at Hereford was owned and operated by P. J. Wetzel from 1914 to 1920; he also dealt in a lot of prospecting where he did the grubstaking and, unfortunately, things did not turn out so well for him. There is still cattle raising in the area and farming along the river. A few cattle corrals are still here along the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Per the Arizona Death Records book, LDS film # 599848 reports 4 burials here, with no names or dates. The location was never given or verified. There is a cemetery at Hereford, on the hill on the west side of the river, this would be along the De Valle wagon road. Also called Herfort Hill.

Hilltop - Thirty-six miles SE from Willcox on Rt. 186 with the Hilltop mine established by Jack Dunn in the early 1890 and then sold to Frank and John Hands. The town of Hilltop was first started on the Northwest slope of Shaw Peak then a tunnel was put through the east side where an even larger town was established.he camp started in the 1880 but the Hillside mine didn't support a town until the early 1900s. In 1913 the Hilltop Metal Mining Company bought it and the company purchased a new seven-passenger six cylinder Cole automobile. A garage was built to house it along with all the necessary tools to keep the machine running smooth.

The post office came in 1920 and left in 1945. T. In 1917, the town built a tunnel through Shaw Peak and erected a new town site. It had a number of wood buildings including bunk houses, a manager's house, dance hall, pool hall, and a restaurant.When the mining diminished the town got quiet. There are 3 graves at Hilltop.

Buckelew, Elizabeth Died c1900 Baby, Half-sister of Albert Noland
Noland, Albert F Feb 9, 1887 - 3/11/1974
Noland, baby Baby, child of Albert Noland

The information regarding these three graves of those buried at the old Hall Ranch in Whitetail Canyon near Hilltop was supplied by Richard Y. Murray.

Costin, Nancy Hall born 5 April 1892; died 30 Dec. 1909.
Costin, Baby born ca 21 Dec. 1909; died 21-30 Dec. 1909. Baby of Nancy and John W. Costin Hall.
Fred Howard born 14 Feb. 1890; died 23 Oct. 1925

Hilltop is fourteen miles South of Hwy 86 or five miles North of Paradise on a dirt road leading west into mountains from the San Simon-Portal Road. Park car at road fork in canyon, fist house and walk up left for 3/4 mile to upper level.

The gravesite is located in West Turkey Creek Canyon on private property, part of the Coronado National Forest. There are no marking. The grave is 100 yards from the owner's house and visitors must check with the owner first. His grave in near a large black oak tree where his body was found a day or two after his death. John Peters Ringo was born in Wayne County, Indiana in 1850. He ended up in Arizona and in 1882 regarded as a "speculator".

He was one of the cowboys who waged war against the Earps and Doc Holliday in tombstone. He did not take part in the gunfight at the OK Corral and some think that he committed suicide. Others to not agree and say he was murdered. A gunshot to his head ended his life. Suspects were Wyatt Earp, Lou Cooley and Buckskin Frank Leslie. This body was found in the crotch of a huge black oak tree and he is was found five yards from where he was buried.

Johnson- A station and mining camp on the Dragoon branch railroad, on the East side of the Little Dragoon Mountains and Headquarters of the Peabody Company in 1883 with Mr. Johnson as the general manager of the company. By July, 150 men were working the coppr from the Peabody Mine and Johnson, Russellville's successor had a company boarding house run by Mrs. Hanson until she shot herself accidently in the foot and had to leave for California to receive surgical treatment.

On a December night in 1883, Colonel Mike Smith and a man named Mason were returning to Johnson from Dragoon Springs where they had cashed their pay checks. Robbers hidden along the road started shooting at them. Both men were not hit but both horses were wounded. The shooter were never found but suspected to be a couple of saloon bums well known in Johnson.

Foundations can be traced, north and west of Russellville. Nothing but foundations left having been destroy by current mining operation. The post office came in 1900 and lasted twenty-nine years closing in 1929. Johnson was the successor to nearby Russellville. By 1925, 1000 people worked in the copper mine. Other mines in the area were the Black Prince Copper, Chochise Copper and the Keystone. Then in the mid 1920s, the price of copper dropped and mining ended. The post office was established in 1900 and discontinued in 1929.

Take the Johnson cutoff from Interstate 10, State 86 midway between Wilcox and Benson, the building being clearly visible to the North from this point.

Kelton- A railroad station with a post office established in 1915- 1928. and named for Capt. C.B. Kelton, one sheriff of Cochise County who had his homestead here.

Kentucky-The name of the town comes from the Kentucky Mine, which yielded substantial quantities of gold during the excitement at nearby Greaterville in 1874. The gold played out in 1886, and Kentucky Camp was abandoned. It came back to life in 1904 when mining engineer James Stetson believed that he could extract gold from placer deposits by channeling snowmett runoff from the Santa Rita Mountains and storing it in a reservoir. His plan had the financial backing of Easterner George B. McAneny. But Stetson died in 1905 from a fall from a third-story window of the Santa Rita Hotel in Tucson (perhaps suicide, although no note was found). The next day he was to address stockholders of McAneny's Santa Rita Mining and Water Company. Shortly thereafter, McAneny died, the water project perished, and Kentucky Camp was abandoned. It was sold for back taxes and became part of a ranch.

Kentucky Camp- The Forest Service acquired Kentucky Camp in 1989 as part of a land swap. In 1991, "Passport in Time" volunteers began work to stabilize the five remaining buildings. Their work has been continued by volunteers from the Friends of Kentucky Camp.

Kentucky Camp consists of a combination dormitory-office, an assay office, two residences, and a barn. The Forest Service and its volunteers are doing a tremendous favor for those of us interested in preserving the history of the West.

Lewiston- Post office established in 1881 and discontinued1881. Location unknown.

Light- This now vanished ocmmunity of Light was settled sometime between 1902and 1910 by homesteaders from Kansas, California and Texas. John W. Light had a store and a post office from 1910 to 1927.

Lowell - In 1901, the Lowell Mine was just getting started. It was owned by a New England merchant. Post Office came in 1904 and discontinued in 1907. Wells Fargo station came in 1909.Small town on the other side of the Lavender pit Mine in Bisbee. Storefronts and a theater remains.

Mammouth- Near TombstoneFrank Schultz located the first mine in the Mammoth district and as early as December 27, 1872, the Mammoth Mine was being worked by E. M. Pearce, C.O. Brown, and members of Tully Ochoa Company. This mine, sometimes referred to as the Old Mammoth Mine, was at a place referred to as Shultz after its locator, or sometimes as Mammoth Camp. Because ores could not be milled at the site, a stamp mill was constructed on the San Pedro River where the community of Mammoth is today. Ores were sent down from the mine to the town in buckets suspended on a wire cable and the returned buckets were filled with water for the mining camp. The Mammoth Mine was so named because it was said to contain huge ore veins

It was a cold October in 1905 when Gil Araiza shot and fatally wounded his wife here and was himself shot in the leg by Justice Kegel while trying to escape the officer. his wound proved fatal said the Florence Blade. The leg was shattered and had to be amputated. The culprit died within a few hour after the operation was performed, the shock to his system being a greater strain that h could withstand.

The wife, believing that she was on her deathbed made a dying statement to Justice Kegel, which was in substance as follows: " I, Antonia Araiza, believing I am going to die, make this as my dying statment: My husband and I had a quarrel. He said he would ge tthe gun and kill me and went and got the gun and shot me without provocation:. What caused the quarrl was not stated. She died.

Manzora- This was the shipppig point for ore from the Golden Rule Mine. The post office was established in 1916 and discontinued 1918.

Mascot- The Mascot Copper Company was eestablished in 1915 to run the Mascot Mine discovered by Charles Roberts. The mine changed hands many times and existed under various names. It was a speculators' paradise stock being sold first under one name and then another. The post office came in 1916 and was discontinued in 1918.

McAllister- The McAlister family settles as farmers in this area. The post office came in 1911 and discontinued 1920.

McNeal/Truit- McNeal was established on the Truit Ranch, a pioneer cattlemen. One of the first settlerrs was Judge Miles McNeal from Missouri who homesteaded here in 1908. The post office came in 1909 as Truitand the name changed to McNeal in 1909.

Mescal- Post office established in 1913 and discontinued 1931. Two companies of black tropps stationed here to furnish escort to travelers.

Middlemarch- The post office came in 1898 and left in 1919. It took its name because it was halfway between Fort Bowie and For Huachuca. Copper was queen and 100 people made Middlemarch home working for the Cobreloma Consolidated and the Middlemarch Copper Companies, both operating here out of the Middlemarch mine. . It tooks it name from the fact that it was the midway point on the military route between Fort Bowie and Fort Huachuca. Not much left seeing today.

This mining camp in the middle pass of the Dragoon Mountains is about 6 mi. SW of Pearce. Post Office established May 10, 1898. Rock walls, debris and dump.

Millville- The town sits on BLM land with a barriers and much looking required to find the slightest amount of rubble and some foundations. The post office came in 1879 and discontinued in 1880. Millville is directly across the San Pedro River from Charleston which was the residences and general businesses for Millville, which housed the mill and other mining related businesses for tombstone and surrounding area.

When Charleston got bigger and the mines in tombstone flooded, operation in Millville ceased leaving only a few adobe foundations. Joseph Isaac "Ike" Clanton operated a restaurant and lodging house Here in Millville on the East bank of the San Pedro River although he spent most of his time gambling and drinking in Tombstone saloons. He fled the OK Corral shootout and saved his life only loosing it in Apache County while rustling cattle. His brother, Bill was killed at the OK Corral shoot out. He lost his life in Apache County rustling cattle.

The most prominent of the ruins is a high adobe wall which was once a large company office building. In 1882, M.R. Peel, a mining engineer for the Tombstone Mining and Milling Company was seated in the office talking with three friends when the door flew open and two gunmen fired at Peel. he fell over dead. They didn't rob or hurt anhone else in the office and fled into the night. The motive for the killing was never found.

Charleston ws the larger of the two towns so Millville's post office was discontinued. People left Millville when water flooded the Tombstne mines and the mills stopped working.

Shortly after noon, on a cold, January 14th, 1881, Henry Schneif\der, head engineer for the night shift of the Tombstone Mill and Mining Company based in nearby Millville was hsot and killed by an eighteenyear old gabler naed ichael O'Rourke, comonly known by his gambling moniker, johnny Behind-the Deuce.

Schneider was eating lunch and talking to a friend when O'Rourke and Petty came in to light cigars. Schneider made soe comment that O'Rourke took as an insult. Responding, O'Rourke, described as " rather under the average sixe, has a fair face, slight black ustache and well-arked eyebrows, blue eyes and black hair", and Schneider began arguing , nearly coming to blows. Perry broke it up, The enraged O'Rourke stormed out of the restaurant, armed himself and accosted Schnieder as he left the same restaurand a little later.

Miramonte/ Whetstone-People from St. David settled at Miramonte with the post office coming in 1918 and discontinued in 1919.

Moore's Spur- Post office established 1913 and discontinued 1914 at this railroad spur.

Mowry Mine Works-In 1860 Sylvester Mowry purchased the Patagonia Mine and renamed it the Mowry Mine. A Confederate sympathizer, Mowry was arrested by General James H. Carleton, and his mine was confiscated by the Union. After his release Mowry entered a lawsuit for $1,129,000 for alleged illegal seizure of the mine even though the confiscation had been authorized by a federal court. Mowry had not collected anything by the time of his death in 1871.

There are half a dozen buildings of frame and adobe and located about thirteen miles southeast of Patagonia between Harshaw and Washington Camp and sits in the center of the Coronado National Forest.

The Mowry Company Siler Mine cemetery here includes the graves of 17 white men, 15 of whom died by violence. Two of the men were killed by Indians who had hung them, heads down from a bree limb after which a slow buring fire was built underneath them. Mowry is west of Tombstone.

It is situated within ten miles of the boundary line between Sonora and Arizona; is 6160 feet above the level of the sea, and is distant 280 miles from Guyamas on the Gulf of California.

Mountain Peak- The ghost is near the highway on AZ 186. On SR 186, 15 miles southeast of Wilcox or 16 miles from Fort Bowie. It is necessary to cross private land to get to it and permission from the landowner is required. Only a few foundations remain.

Naco- Near Tombstone where $16,000 is buried on the old Jones' ranch on the Arizona side about l/4 mile South of the old ranch house, a post hole bank is suggested.The area around Naco has been a locus of human activity for more than 10,000 years. In the early 1950s, evidence for Paleo-Indian mammoth hunting was discovered in nearby Greenbush Draw. Currently, little is known of human activities after the Paleo-Indian period and prior to historic times. Limited evidence for occupation of the area around Naco has been found; however, this may simply be a result of the limited amount of archaeological work done in the region. It does appear that intermittent use occurred, probably by persons living along the San Pedro River to the west. The region was developed beginning in the 1870s by cattle ranchers and miners (Cochise County 1915). The recent history of Naco has seen the development of a border town between Arizona and Mexico.

Recorded history of the Naco, Arizona, area begins with one of the first Euro-American explorers to visit Arizona, a man named Francisco Coronado. He journeyed along the San Pedro River in 1540, leaving no traces of his passage, so his precise route is still debated today. Father Eusebio Kino, a Jesuit priest, was probably the next Euro-American to travel through the area, in the 1690s. The founding of the Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate, northwest of present day Naco, marked the beginning of Euro-American settlement in the San Pedro River Valley (Walker and Bufkin 1986:12-14). The Presidio was occupied from 1775 to 1780 (Williams 1986).

The late 1700s and early 1800s saw limited occupation of the Naco area. There are three reasons for this slow growth: the inhospitable climate, the difficulties involved in traveling through the area, and attacks by Apache Indians. Combined, these conditions made southeastern Arizona an unpleasant place for ranchers and miners, who were drawn by the grasslands along the rivers and metals and minerals hidden in the ground.

In 1846, the Mormon Battalion, which consisted of a group of Mormon soldiers led by Captain Philip Cooke, passed through the area. These soldiers may have been the first Anglo-Americans to visit the region. At that time, the area was still under Mexican control (the Spanish had relinquished claims after the Mexican Revolution of 1821). The Mexican government subsequently sold the area that includes southern Arizona as part of the Gadsden Purchase of 1854, and the international boundary was surveyed shortly thereafter. Hostile Apaches destroyed many of these markers, and they were replaced between 1891 and 1894.

The American period saw increased settlement of the area. Arizona was established as a separate territory from New Mexico in 1863, and in 1881 Cochise County was created from eastern Pima County. It is the only Arizona County named after a Native American individual (Walker and Bufkin 1986:32). Tombstone was named county seat in 1881, a position it held until 1929 when the seat was moved to Bisbee.

Mining and ranching were the main economic pursuits in early Cochise County, a trend that continues today. The suppression of the Apache, cheaper transportation routes, and new metallurgical processes allowed for the establishment of many gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc mines in southeastern Arizona. The towns of Bisbee, Tombstone, Douglas, and Benson were all founded from around 1879 to 1880. At one time, Bisbee was the largest settlement in the territory with more than 20,000 residents. In 1915, Cochise County held 1/6 of the state's population (Cochise County 1915). The Arizona Southeastern Railroad line was built almost to Naco in 1888-1889 (Walker and Bufkin 1986:46-48). In the 1890s, the line was run across the border to the Mexican town of Cananea, setting the stage for the development of Naco.

The origins of Naco are somewhat unclear, however. In 1892, a newspaper reported that a new city is to be built on the line in the road from Station 30 on the Bisbee railway to Nacomara. The new city was to have an American and Mexican customs house and telecommunications with Bisbee (Weekly Arizona Enterprise February 18, 1892, page 4). While planned as early as 1892, the town was probably not actually established until 1898, when the Phelps Dodge Company decided to pursue mining operations in Nacozari, Mexico, where rich deposits of copper were to be found. In the same year, voters were listed in Naco Junction. One source claims that John and Etta Towner were the first residents of Naco (Valenzuela n.d.). In 1899, the Canine Consolidated Copper Company, headed by an American named William Cornell Green, began operations, and the need for a quicker means of transporting copper ore grew (Anonymous 1976). A railroad track was built to link the mine in Nacozari to mining operations in southern Cochise County, and the twin towns of Naco, Arizona, and Naco, Sonora, grew at the point where the railroad crossed the international border (Myrick 1975:194). Naco quickly became a small service center for local residents, who were mostly miners and ranchers.

In 1899, Naco was reported to have 50 inhabitants, with plans to become a rival of Nogales, to the west (Arizona Star February 9, 1899). The post office was opened on the first of January in 1899, with Joseph E. Curry as the original postmaster (Barnes 1960). Other records state that Kenneth C. Hicks was actually the first postmaster, and that the post office was established in July of 1899 (Granger 1983:428). Both of these men were pioneer residents.

The Mexican government officially moved their Port of Entry from Morita to Naco, Sonora, on July 16, 1900. Voter registration lists for 1900 indicate that the United States customs house also had been moved there from Morita. Construction of the Naco-to-Cananea railroad began in 1901, spurring further growth

In 1904, a Wells Fargo Station was opened (Barnes 1960). The Sanborn Fire Insurance Company first mapped the town in the same year (Figure A.3). By this time, Naco was reported to have 1,800 residents; however, this was clearly an exaggeration. The area covered by the map had about 80 dwellings and 30 businesses. There were five saloons and two churches, a public school, a confectionery shop, a waterworks, general stores, and the Naco Hotel. The town was remapped five years later, in 1909. There were no major changes in the numbers of buildings. The population figure was revised downward to 1,000, which was still too high since the 1910 census found only 517 people in the general area.

The Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910, had a profound effect on the two Nacos. The Mexican government had come into open conflict with rebel groups protesting government policies. As the fighting spread in northern Sonora, southern Arizonans began to watch the border anxiously. On November 6, 1910, U.S. troops were moved to the border to guard American interests (Figure A.4). Company B of the 18th Infantry, previously stationed at Fort Whipple, was sent to prevent arms smuggling into Mexico. Many naturalized Mexican residents of Arizona were supporting the rebels since these individuals were often their friends and relatives (Christiansen 1974).

The following year saw the first battle in Naco, Sonora, which occurred on May 19, 1911. Two years later, fighting intensified to such a degree that many Naco, Arizona, residents fled the town. In March and April, the 9th U.S. Cavalry stood watch as bullets "fell thickly" across the border, and they spent much time keeping excited spectators away from the fighting. Naco, Sonora, had been held by the federal forces, but it soon fell. The town was devastated, and its residents (including many Chinese workers) abandoned the town. The fierce battles between the government forces and the rebels practically leveled the town. Finally, after 1915 the fighting decreased, allowing Naco, Arizona, residents to return to their homes without the fear of stray bullets smashing through walls (Christiansen 1975). At least four residents of Naco, Arizona, were killed by stray bullets and shells, and an additional 37 were injured (Mumme 1979). Afterward, the Naco Hotel advertised its "Bullet-Proof Rooms" (see Figure A.5).

The battles appear to have disrupted the economy of the region. Railroad routes into Mexico were cut off, and trade ceased as the Federales and rebels fought for control over the area. Naco, Arizona, suffered as a result. In 1920, there were only 417 residents in Naco, and the numbers did not increase substantially in later years. The 1924 Bisbee City Directory lists the businesses that were operating in Naco, including a pharmacy, a grocery, a hotel, a barber shop, and an auto stage. Customs officials and a Mexican counsel were also located in Naco, as was Troop B of the Tenth Calvary, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers. The Buffalo Soldiers were African-American, and many of their families resided in Naco, Arizona.

During Prohibition, which began in Arizona on the first of January in 1915 (Cherrington 1916), Naco, Sonora, experienced an influx of Americans seeking alcohol. Numerous clubs sprouted, including the Del Monte, the Arizona Club, and the Foreign Club. Other amusements included cabarets, a boxing arena, and, probably, brothels. Period photographs suggest that these entertainments were very popular

Another Mexican Revolution in 1929 created more excitement. Naco became the only town in the continental United States to be bombed when an inept pilot dropped four bombs on the town, blowing out windows, demolishing a car, and damaging a boxcar (Peterson 1983; Sheppard 1988). Many people left Naco during the second Mexican Revolution, and the 1931 Sanborn Map reveals that the town had undergone little or no growth since the 1909 map was created.

In more recent years, Naco has seen a gradual decline in the number of residents. The growth of nearby communities has drawn businesses away from Naco, as has the demise of the railroad, beginning in the 1930s. The 1960s and 1970s saw the closure of several nearby copper mines, further harming the local economy. The Naco, Arizona, Port of Entry serves as one of the main economic stimuli for the settlement. The town currently is unincorporated and has a population of about 700 people.

The 1898 Great Register lists 14 voters at a place called Naco Junction. It is uncertain whether this place is the same as present-day Naco, but examination of these names suggests that it is not. None of those listed for Naco Junction were registered in Naco two years later. The register also lists no individuals for Naco Junction after the letter M, suggesting that other people were recorded elsewhere.

Naco had at least 160 residents in 1900, the majority of whom were men born in the United States. In 1900, only a handful of Mexicans lived in the town. The jobs held by residents indicate that several saloons, a hotel, stores, and a customs office were present. There were also a number of carpenters and a brickmaker living in Naco, doubtlessly helping to build the dwellings and businesses sprouting up around them.

Paradise- Paradise was created by the Chiricahua Developing Comp[any about 1901. By 1904, there were thirteen saloon, three general stores, a hotel and a jail. men were shackled tween two trees. Eventually a more permanent structure was built.

The most famous jailbird was Pablo Zuniga, a Mexican with a wife and six plus children. He sold wood which he carreid into town on his burros. He would drink and then go home and beat his wife and family, to let them know how much he loved them.
He was arrested and thrown into jaul but a jail break was orchestrated by hs wife. All might have gone well except Pablo had to curse out the "gringos" especially Mart Moore, the constable. he was recaptured and taken back to jail to sober up. His wife, Maria rfused to testify ending the case.

The mines closed down in 1907 but some people still live in Paradise. It is easily accessible from US 80- at Rodeo, New Mexico, via a hard topped road to Portal, a distance of eight miles and a well maintained forest road for another four miles.

Ochoa/ Ochoaville- Estaban Orchoa was a freighter from Tuscon to Camp Ord and served as Tucson's mayor. In 1879 he was partner with P.R. Tully in ranching and freighting. To provide room for his sheep flocks, he built a ranch and a small settlement called Ochoaville, two miles from Fort Huachuca. The community had six houses, a store and seventy-five people. The post office came in as Ochoaville in 1879 and discontinued in 1885.

Overton-A short lived place with the post office coming in 1917 and laving in 1918.

Paradise-In 1901 the Chiricahua Development Company located a vein of ore and spent nearly half a million developing it. It became a mining town with a post office in 1901 which discontinued in 1943. Six miles NW of Portal. with only one building that still holds the roof. The post office came in 1901 and was there until 1943. Paradise had 13 saloons and the original jail was open air where prisoners were shacked to chain run between two trees. The mines closed in 1907, but some residents are still there today

Above is the Paradise Post Office of 1937. In many cases the post office was at the home of the current Postmaster.

Parlmerlee- See Reef

Paul Spur- A cement plant and small community are ocated a thtis place on the railroad where ther is also a section house. The post office came in 1930 and left 1958.

Pearce A gold mining town that is one mile Southwest of the large curve on US 191 about 18 miles South of I-10 at Exit 331. Wells Fargo established a depot there in 1885.

Jimmie Pearce and his wife came from Tombstone. He was a miner and she ran a boardinghouse. It was 1894 when Pearce rode up a hill on his horse and sat down to rest. he hit a small rock and gold was revealed. At this time he was ranching in the Sulpur Springs Vlley. They filed five claims one for each member of his family.

As a family they worked the rich gold-silver mine until John Brockman, a banker from Silver City, New Mexico offered to develop the mine. Pearce gave sixty days to work the mine and sold out the property for $250,000. Mrs. Pearce, always the businesswoman made the new owners agreed that she would have exclusive rights to operate the only boardinghouse at the mine.

The mine was called the Commonwealth and b 1919 there had nearly fifteen hundred residents, a school, restaurants, saloons, hotels, garages and even a movie theater. It was named third in importance after Douglas and Wilcox in the Sulphur spings Valed.

Several buildings remain including the old store, jail building and several adobe structural ruins.The post office came in 1896 and never left.

Pearce was the site of one of the richest gold strikes ever found in Arizona, said to have produced between fifteen and thirty million dollars worth of gold from 1894 to 1896. Pearce was also the headquarters of the Alvord/Stiles gang who robbed the Southern Pacific Railway train at the Cochise Station September 9, 1899.

Pearce cemetery is West of town along Middlemarch Road, a dirt road that crosses the dragoon Mountains to Tombstone and used by the soldiers between Fort Bowie and Fort Huachuca in 1870 and 1880.Foumd south of Sunsites, off Hwy 191. The post office established March 6,1896. Railroad station opened 1903.

Pick-em-up- Near Tombstone and on private property with nothing much to see. It is between Tombstone and Charleston. Lots of bars and whorehouses but the exact location is sketchy. It grew up around the "First Chance" saloon or earlier the Brady House. it was the first chance to buy a drink on the road from Charleston to Tombstone.

Johnny O'Rourke, better knows as Johnny-Behind-the Deuce, got his nickname by constantly backing his favorite card. In a fit of temper, in Charleston, Johnny shot Henry Schneider, a mining engineer and was arrested. At that moment the mining whistle blew and miners poured inot the streets where the blood was still running. They wanted to lynch the murderer but the constable wanted to get Johnny to safety behind bar in Tombstone.

He set out with his prisoner with a team of horses and were pursued by the miners Two miles from Tombstone, at Jack McCann's Saloon with a racing mare tied outside waiting for a race at the Watervale Track.

The constable yelled to McCann to "Pick em up" and the prisoner and Mc Cann followed by the constable and the miners rode hell bent for leathr into Tombstone and the safety of the jail.

Pirtleville- Elmo R. Pirtle came from Douglas as a real estate broker and established this small settlement which had a post office from 1908 as Pirtle and the name was changed in in 1910.

Pittsburgh- In 1905, the Cochise Consolidated Copper Company petitioned for a post office for their new townsite Pittsburg. It came on June 18, 1906 and was rescinded on October 8, 1906.

Pomerene- This settle was name for Senator Pomerene of Ohio Post office came in 1915.

Pool- Dr. Josiah Pool came to Arizona in 1882. He was a rancher, cook, bookkeeper and cowpuncher. He built a rnach South of Tucson on the Santa Cruz. in 1883 he built another ranch , thirty miles North of Benson on the San Pedro River. The post office came in 1902 and was discontinued 1913.

Portal- In 1884, after a bank robber, Black Jack Ketcham hid the loot in "Room Forty Four", a cave located in Wild Cat Canyon a the South end of the Chiticahua. The post office came in 1905.

May, Clarence J. (father) 1860 - 1924
May, Mable H. M. (mother) 1865 - 1945
May, Clarence M. H. 1890 - 1910

Presidio of Santa Cruz de Terrenate- 1780 Spanish fort located along the San Pedro River, Old remains left.Near the San Pedro River west of Tombstone the ruins of the Spanish Presidio de Terrenate still stand.

The site was chosen on August 22, 1775 by Hugo O'Conor, the Irish mercenary who had come up with the plan of relocating the three presidios. He chose a spot on a bluff overlooking the San Pedro River, which seemed to provide a natural fortification on several sides. The area had pasturage, wood and water.

In the early part of 1776, the same year the American revolution began, a Spanish garrison marched north from the original Terrenate site further to the south in Sonora. Their commander was Francisco Tovar, and the company consisted of fifty-six men, 352 horses and fifty-one mules. The soldiers were "leather-jacket cavalry," a type of heavy cavalry equipped (at least in theory) with six horses apiece, a pair of pistols, musket, sword and lance. The group setting forth from Terrenate in Sonora would also have likely included some civilians from the former fort who were reluctant to remain in an unfortified area once the troops left. There were also friendly mission Indians from San Xavier del Bac and San Agustin de Tucson to help with the construction of the buildings and the walls. Surely every available hand was put to work constructing the foundation and wall which was to be their first line of defense.

They did not have long to wait before hostile Apaches began to harass the settlement, attacking anyone who ventured out for water or to try to plant crops in the nearby fields. The Apaches were attracted by the large number of horses kept at the settlement and ran off the herds whenever they were unguarded. As the number of their horses became fewer, the soldiers were less and less able to pursue the raiders to try to reclaim them.

On July 7, 1776 a battle left the commander and twenty-nine of his men dead. In August the fort finally received a shipment of weapons. Captain Francisco Ignacio de Trespalacios replaced the fallen commander and brought reinforcements to bring their number up to eighty-three men. In mid-November Trespalacios led thirty of them almost a hundred miles south to the aid of the mission of Magdalena on the Rio San Ignacio. When they arrived they found that forty raiders had looted the settlement, murdered the inhabitants and burned the church.

In 1777 the Spanish forces gained ground, winning a victory at La Tinaja and mounting an expedition to the Gila River, but in February 1778 the Apaches made a successful raid on the fort's horse herd, and between June and September the fort again lost its commander and nineteen other soldiers and settlers. Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Fages brought reinforcements to the fort and tried to get things on a more secure footing. He had enough manpower to protect the settlers as they set to work restoring the irrigation aqueducts of the Sobaipuri Indians, who had once lived in the San Pedro valley. Fages was able to report that they had successfully planted grain, corn, beans, lentils and chile. But soon the relentless raids again began to take their toll, killing thirty-nine men.

In 1779, when Inspector Roque de Medina came to Santa Cruz de Terrenate, he found forty-six soldiers, ninety-eight horses and twenty-three mules. Only twenty-six of the "leather-jacketed cavalry" survived, and only sixteen of the reinforcements were still alive. Four Indian scouts remained and twenty others had deserted. On inspection nineteen of the muskets in the armory were useless and thirty-eight of the lances supplied the men were of such inferior workmanship as to be unserviceable. Eight of the men did not even have uniforms.

A great number of the missing arms and uniforms were captured by the Indians as evidenced in the fact that in April 1780, a raid was made on the Gila River Pima villages in which the Apaches were disguised as soldiers in leather jackets, with Spanish-style hats. They carried muskets and killed or captured 120 of the Pimas. The survivors believed they had in fact been attacked by the Spanish until a Pima woman captured in the raid made her way home and explained that the attackers had been Apaches.

After examining the situation at Santa Cruz de Terrenate, Medina strongly recommended that the garrison be moved back to its former position, citing poor communications, the isolation of the presidio and the extreme difficulties of getting supplies to the present location.

The San Bernardino fort, Terrenate's nearest neighbor, had already been abandoned during the previous year, because of similar problems--strong opposition by the Apaches, difficulties of communications and the impossibility of secure lines of supply. Worsening attacks prevented the settlers from either receiving outside help or harvesting their own crops so that they were literally starving to death. At last, in 1780, it was decided to move the troop back to Las Nutrias, near the former site of the Terrenate garrison. Teodoro de la Croix summarized the reason:

"The terror instilled in the troops and settlers of the presidio of Santa Cruz that had seen two captains and more than eighty men perish at the hands of the enemies in the open rolling ground at a short distance from the post, and the incessant attacks which they suffered from the numerous bands of Apache, who do not permit the cultivation of the crops, who surprise the mule trains carrying effects and supplies, who rob the horse herds and put the troops in the situation of not being able to attend their own defense, making them useless for the defense of the province."

Today, the remains of the fort look lost in the vastness of the desert. Traces of numerous buildings and adobe walls remain, including the gate and fortified wall, the chapel, the soldiers' barracks, and the commandant's quarters. From the bastion the soldiers scanned the valleys on all sides for enemies. The traditional Spanish fort warfare was ineffective against the lightning raids and guerrilla tactics of the Apaches. In 1780 the Presidio was abandoned, and a visitor to the ruins can easily imagine the bleak isolation those early Spaniards must have felt there. They probably found more comfort in the chapel than in their weapons.

Prospect-This was a mining camp and named for the many holes, miners dug search for that illusive gold. Was in existence in 1903.

Pyramid- The exact location of this mining camp is unknown. It may have been in the southwestern Cochise County of in the Southeastern Santa Cruz down by the Mexican border. With a population of one thousand in the 1882 and an expected influx of 5,000 to 10,000 people within the year, it would have surpassed Tombstone. It never happened and when the mine closed so did Pyramid.

Reef- The original name was Reef, then Palmerlee and then Garces but today there is no footprint. The site was a mining camp due to a local geological feature. With a new owner came a new name, Palmerlee. Honoring Father Francisco Garces, they changed the town’s name in 1911.The town carried the name till 1926. Two hundred people lived it at its peak with a florist, meat market, second hand store, a shop, boardinghouse, school and more.The Reef townsite was a mining camp active from the 1880s to the early 1900s when miners sought silver, gold and tungsten there. The town took its name from nearby Carr Reef, a band of quartzite cliffs running along the eastern side of the Huachuca mountains. After you make the white-knuckle ride up the one-lane many-switchbacked road, you reach two relatively large level areas, Reef Townsite campground and Ramsey Vista campground. A short hiking trail around the Reef campground guides a visitor among old mining digs, a primitive water system, and the foundations of an ore mill. The elevation is 7200 feet. In the fall the drive up Carr Canyon can lead you to a view of the beautiful splashes of bright yellow formed by the forest of aspens high up the mountain. Some of the tent sites at the Reef campground are located on the foundations of the "town's" original dwellings. There is a $10 charge for overnight or day use. The day-use group picnic site can be reserved by calling the Sierra Vista District Office, (520) 378-0311. Season: spring, summer, fall

Richmond-Established in the hills close to what is now Tombstone in early 1878. Little is knows about this short lived community other than it was named for the capital of Virginia. When Tombstone was founded, the residents moved to the new townsite. A couple of adobe foundations are all that remain to be seen located in the hills approximatel one mile directly behind the Tombstone Courthouse.

Reventon- All the names listed on the 1864 census reveal that the residents were all soldiers so it must have been a military establishment.

Richmond- Just about one mile South of the Tombstone Courthouse and sits on private property on a very difficult dirt track. Some foundations and adobe wall remnants are all there is to see. Whether or not it had a post office is unknown but Richmond was a suburb of Tombstone.

Rucker/Powers--Established as powers, the post office came in 1887 and changed to Rucker in 1891 and discontinued in 1906. It was reestablished as Rucker Canyon in 19918 and discontinued in 1929. This community grew up around Camp Rucker. One of the pioneer family's name was Powers, thus the name.

Russellville- Station of the Dragoon branch railroad in the Little Dragoon Mountains, 19 mi. northeast of Benson at exit 322.Not much to see here but security, the remains of a mill and foundations but at one time the camp housed 100 people that worked at the Peabody Mine owned by Russelll Gold and Silver Mining Company. Russellville with its smelter spang into being about 1881 with about one hunded people. Many women and families lived in Russellville which made it a safer camp. They did have a general store, blacksmith, shops, saloons, restaurants and more. When the town of Johnson came in 1883, it was closer to the Peabody Mind so the residents just picked up and moved leaving the site of Russellville abandoned.

Sample-Suspected to be located somewhere near Benson. The population and contents of the town is a mystery but it was large enough to have a post office in 1886 and was discontinued in 1887. . The village was named for Comer (Red) Sample who was hanged with four colleagues in 1884 for his role in the Bisbee Massacre.

San Pedro-The town came into being in 1879 and staked out along the right of way of the S.P.R.R. This is not the San Pedro Crossing or the earlier San Pedro settlement of 1870. The post office came in 1872 till 1880.

San Pedro Settlement /Crossing-The settlement had a population of eighty people in 1870 and was still in existence according to newpaper article in 1875 It was a few mils West of of the San Padro River and appoximately Southeast, the same distance from Cienega on the old stage road.

San Pedro Springs-In 1879 it was a small settlement on the East bank of the San Pedro River, a few miles Souteast of the old San Pedro. It lies to the South of the two crossings, Upper Crossing and Middle Crossing.

San Pedro- Money taken in a stage robbery is reportedly hidden on the Old Camp Grant land along the San Pedro river.

San Simon-A station was established in 1859 here. It was a small station for changing horses. When the railroad came thorugh, the community began to grow. The post office came in 1881and re-established in 1930.

Skeleton Canyon- Located off Hwy 80 outside Douglas with a monument commemorating the surrender of Geronimo. The real place of the surrender is Skeleton Canyon, also called Guadalupe Canyon or Canon de los Embudos. It is eleven miles out with signs pointing the way. To reach the Canyon, take Geronimo Trail from the 15 th Avenue in Douglas right on US 80 and drive the dirt road until you mass Milemarker 20. Road on the right is Skeleton Canyon Rd but there are no remains to find. It takes it name for the hundreds of bleached bones lying in the area of the canyon.

Stark- Located near Naco and began as a settlement along the old El Paso and Southwestern RR and named after the person who operated the store and post office. The post office came in 1913 and stayed until 1921. Named for the Stark family who homesteaded here in the late 1870s.

Steins - Kitchen Steins Railroad Ghost town was once a thriving railroad station town named after Captain Enoch Stein, U.S. Army officer (sometimes spelled Steen) who was the first Anglo witness to sign a treaty with the Mimbres Apaches including Delgadito and Victorio. At the town's peak, between 1905 to 1945 Steins supported 1300 residents.

In 1857 the Birch stage line rumbled through Steins, and when James Birch was drowned in a shipwreck off the New England coast, his stagecoach company line was replaced in 1858 by the Butterfield Overland Stage Company.

Waterman L. Owsby, a reporter for the New York Herald was the first "through" passenger, thus tales of the Wild West were begun. In April of 1861, five men traveling west by stagecoach to Tucson were attacked by Cochise and his band while approaching Stein's Peak. Two white men were killed in the first fire. The others, including John J. Giddings of San Antonio, traffic manager of the Butterfield Texas division, and one other passenger survived long enough to face a terrible fate, hung upside down and burned alive. The bodies were found and buried by passing freighters. Giddings daughter visited the grave in 1925, erecting a headstone in her father's memory.

Congress ordered the Butterfield road closed in 1861 due to the onset of Civil War. Later, during the 1880s Apaches once again figured into Steins history when the Army set up a heliograph station on Steins Peak signaling information regarding the movements of Geronimo. With the surrender of Geronimo in 1886 citizens of the Territory breathed a sigh of relief, but three years later heliograph stations began blinking messages once again to the Army hard on the trail of Apache Kid. Later, gangs of horse thieves and express robbers including Black Jack Ketchum terrorized the little village.

In early 1880s Southern Pacific built track through Steins Pass and the town was established as work station for the railroad. Dwellings were made of rough-cut lumber, adobe, and salvaged railroad ties. Water hauled from Doubtful Canyon sold for a dollar a barrel. Numerous businesses included three saloons, two bordellos, a boarding house, and a general store stood at the center of the community. After World War II Southern Pacific switched from steam to diesel, the work station was closed down and the town began to die.

It had been reported in the Arizona Champion on Feb 19th 1887 that Steins Peak's new camp seemed to be booming.

Sunglow-The place was named by Jeff Thomson in 1920 because of the sun action about the place at sunrise. Johnny Ringgold aka Ringo, is buried about one and one-half miles from the old Sunglow post office. His boy lies within a few hundred feet of where he was shot.

Ringo was a notorious badman and was found sitting propped in the fork of a tree with bullet in his head. Curiously, his feet wre bare. No shoud of shots had been heard. his body was found a few hours after his death and his horse was only a mile or two below. The circumstances surrounding hte death are still unknown. The coroner's jury thought it a verdict of suicide more than a killing.even though his revolver was still fully loaded.

Only a few dwelling remain in the place where the post office came in 1922 and left 1933.

Sunnyside- Sunnyside is now in private hand sitting high in the huachuca Mountains. and almost inaccessible with four buildings and a large barn. Supported by the Copper Glance Mine, the post office came in 1914 and left in 1934.

Sunnyside, known for its religions consisting only of the Donnellites, followers of Samuel Donnelly. He was a Scot who in 1880 was a patron of all the whiskey places until he got religion thorugh the Salvation Army. He first ended up in Tombstone and was one of their street preachers.

He ran in to Glance, owner of the Copper Glance mine and with him desinged a religious colony. The mines paid off and the community did nicely.

All the miners were religious and the town sang hymns, read the bible and worked hard. If I miner wanted work he had a job but if he was lazy, he was told to move along. This was the only 100% religious mining town in Arizona.

All of the money was pooled and everyone did what they could to benefit the community. The Donellities were generous and supported causes when they saw the need.

When Brother Sam died in the 1890s, and the mine played out the Donnellites disbanded the men so they could find work elsewhere.

A few deserted wooden homes and their schoolhouse still sands in the middle of a small mountain meadow.

Father Eusebio Kino the famous Jesuit priest allegedly founded Terrenate in 1697. It became a major mission and had no post office. It sits today on protected BLM Land. The Presidio Santa Cru de Terrenate, established in 1775 guarded the Northern reaches of New Spain and part of the network of forts. The BLM has allowing hiking trails though the site to minimize visitor impact. The Presidio Trail is located on Kellar Rd., two miles north of Hwy 82 (Kellar Rd) is CA. two miles West of Fairbank

Tombstone-The post office came in 1878 to this ghost located on US 80, 75 miles Southeast of Tucson and never closed. Tombstone came into being throught the courage of Ed Schieffelin who prospected regardless of the dangers presented by the Apaches in the San Pedro area in 1877. The mine produced millions, battling water at every turn. Fire almost killed tombstone on two occasions but the townsfolk would not give in. At one time over 15,000 people called Tombstone home. Schieffelin along with the Lucky Cuss registered Toughnut Mine- Right in Tombstone, this mine took out forty million in silver, value of 1.7 billion dollars came out between 1880-1886.

Tombstone became a city in 1881 with churches and schools with five techers and 250 students, an iron foundry, bottling works, city hall, two banks, a newspaper, the Epitaph and 150 saloos.

Fires in June of 881 and again in May 1882 almost killed her but both times it was rebuilt bigger and better and was finally home for about fiften thousand people.The most famous gunfight was that betten the Earps and Clanton factions on October 16, 1881. City Marshal Virgil Earp with his brothers, Wyatt and Morgan and Doc Holliday attempted to disarm Ike and Billy Clanton and the McLowery bothers. Tom and Frank McLowery fell dead and Billy Clanton was seriously wounded and died a half an hour later.

Tombstone ws rough and tumble until the five man hanging in March 1884. On Dec. 6, 1883 five armed men strode into Goldwater and Castenada General Stoe in Bisbee and robbed the store, leaving four dead victims. A posse captured them and put them into the county jail at Tomstone. A sixth membr of the gan was apprehnded and paid for his part two weeks earlier than the others. He was John Heath, a saloonkeeper and one of the first Bisbee citizens to form a posse to capture the murders. He tried to lead the posse away from the murderers. He was arrested and hung by angry citizens. The other were hung on March 8, 1884.

Outlaw "Pop" Clanton of the Clanton gang buried $50,000 in gold coins on or near the site of the old Clanton Ranch of Horset'

Tres Alamos/Redington- An Arizona ghost town located on the eastern flank of the Rincon Mountains east of the city of Tucson at the eastern end of Redington Pass that runs between the Santa Catalina Mountains and the Rincon Mountains.

In 1768 Spanish soldiers from the Presidio de Tucson farmed the area along the San Pedro River to supply food for the Presidio. Later, in 1830, Mexican farmers settled in the area, establishing more permanent farming operations and transporting their produce through the Redington Pass to Tucson with the protection of soldiers from the Presidio.

In 1860 the Soza family settled in the area and operated a prosperous cattle ranch. As other Mexicans immigrated from the south the community grew with the building of an adobe chapel called La Capilla de San Antonio de Padua de Lisboa. The community also had a gristmill and built a school for the children of the community.

In 1865 several Anglos from Tucson settled in the area as well. Though farming was productive, they found the Apache raids ntolerable and abandoned the area after a few years

The Tres Alamos post office was established in 1874 to serve ranchers along the San Pedro River north of the town of Benson. Seven murdered men led to its abandonment although a stage station continued to operatre untill 1877. The post office was eventually closed in 1886. All of the valley settlements and area surrounding them soon became known as Redington..

Vanar/Vanarman-- A location on the S.p.R.r. near the New Mexico line and fist found on a Rand Mc Nulty 1898 map as Vanarman, then shortened to Vanar. Post Office established 1914 and discontinued in 1916.

Warren- Located on SR 92 and SR 80 near Bisbee. Georg Warren was grubstaked by John Dunn to work on the claim in Mule Gulch. The Calumet and Arizona Mining and Copper Queen Consolidated combined in 1907. Numerous buildings remain leaving a large footprint. Warren, founded as a company town for the mineworkers, started a Warren-Bisbee Railroad known as the "streetcar" connecting Warrren, Lowell and Bisbee in 1908 The trip took one-half hour and cost ten cents. Post office came in 1907 with Wells Fargo coming in 1908.

Washington Camp-A few family live in the old dwellings which was the smelter center for the nearby mines. The road runs through both Duquesne and Washingtoncamp so a good view of the two settlements which once was home to one thousand people.

Washington Camp and Duquesue abour about one mile apart and both close to the border of Mexicco. They can be reached by driving 13 miles East on a dirt rad from a junction on State 82, approximatel five miles Northesst of Nogales or fourteen miles Southwest of Patagonia.

Watervale- Three miles West of Tombstone in the direction of the Schieffelin Monument. The town took its name from the small spring nearby. With its general store, it was the first commercial establishment near Tombstone. May be possible to find some thick rock walls of early houses, the spring and some remnants of the mill.

Drive west of Allen Street in Tombstone to the Schieffelin Monument Road. continue to a wash where you can park your car and walk north about one quarter of a mile. Climb the small knoll on your right to the ruins that are 200 yards distant.

Webb/Tyler Webb has two building, the school and the post office and is now private residences. Webb was founded as a railroad stop for the farmers in the area. The post office came in 1909 till 1938.

Whetstone- Miramonte- People from St. David settled at Miramonte with the post office coming in 1918 and discontinued in 1919. Cemetery- Lcoated about ten miles
SW of Benson on the Bill Williams Ranch

Anderson, Raymond, b. 3 July 1920, Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, son of Alfred Oscar Anderson and Arvilla Davis, d. 3 July 1920, age few minutes
Davis, Vearl (twin), b. 26 June 1916, Miramonte, Cochise, Arizona, child of Heber Davis and Christina Thompson, d. 5 Aug. 1916
Williams, George Calvin, b. 27 Feb. 1836, Hamilton Co, Tennessee, son of George Washington Williams and Elizabeth Davis, d. 7 Nov 1917.
Husb of Martha Bearl Easterly
No surname, Louis, b. 1863, d. 1863-At time of death these graves located near Whetstone, a railraod station, in a cow pasture. It was called Miramonte, a LDS Branch and settlement, now not in existence. Presently located on Bill Williams Ranch. Several LDS families homesteaded this area and one of the members gave a deed to the Rranch, called Miramonte, for 5 acres for a cemetery. Later the members mostly moved away with exceptions of 3 or 4 that kept their ranches. The Ward was dissolved and records sent to Pomerene Branch. Records were secured from Arvilla Davis Anderson, a mother and sister to the two deceased.

Treasure Spots in Cochise County

Bisbee Junction- Bandit loot from a train robbery is reportedly hidden somewhere near Bisbee Junction.

Douglas- The outlaws buried two heavy bags of gold after a robbery. The directions they gave to the cache were these. From Douglas, go North on a country road for 18 miles. Where the road forks, take it to the left, leading in a Westerly direction and continue for five miles. Turn North again. Straight ahead is a corral. Go through two gates and follow this road 8- 10 miles to a goat ranch. From the goat ranch, head 200 years up a canyon to a spring and old campsite. Up this canyon toward a dike is the hidden loot area.

Pearl Rosa Reed, illegitimite dughter of outlaws Belle Starr and Cole Younger is buried here in the Douglas Calvary Cemetery. Pearl died here in Douglas on l/8/1925.

Tucson- It is said thqt the old owner of the house located at 1322 Fifth Street in jTucson buried a cache of treasure on his place before he died. It is claimed that his ghost appears at night and sits on the fence guarding his hoard.

Mountain Springs- Apache Indians hid a cache of gold dust and silver coins after they attacked a wagon train a few miles Northeast of the stage station of mountain Springs. They hid it in a Dutch Oven, placed behind two rocks at the point of Winchester Mountains Northeast of Wilcox.

Sugar Loaf- Indians reportedly buried a large amount of gold and other treasures near a peak known as Sugar Loaf or Sqaw Peak or some say in a cave on the face of the peak.

Wilcox- In 1895, bandits robbed the safe in the express car of the Southern Pacific RR, 5 miles West of Wilcox. In an effort to dynamite the safe, 8 sacks of Mexican silver dollars weighed the sticks down on top of the safe. The explosion blew 8k000 silver coins through the roof of the railroad car and spread them all over the right of way. The Railroad agents recovered about 7,000 of the coins after the incident, leafing some 1,000 behind. Treasure hunters are still recovering them.

Douglas-Douglas was the last of the rip-roaring western towns where the six-shooter reigned and dance hall girls, gambling and other sordid industries prevailed. The town, beginning in 1900, was overrun with all kinds of illegal activities and by 1902 the Arizona Rangers were called in to clean it up. By the Rangers admission, "Douglas was tougher than Tombstone ever hoped to be"

Guadalupe Canyon- In July 1881, Newton " Old Man" Clanton and several of his gang abushed a group of Mexican cowboys here in the canyon near the Mexican border. they killed 19 of them, a slaughter tat was known as the Guadalupe Canyon Massacre. A few weeks later, Clanton and four of his gang were killed in the same canyon by the Mexicans. He was burid on the spot he died. In 1882, his sons, Ike and Phinn dug up his body and buried him next ot Billy Clanton in Tombstone's Boothill Cemetery

Follow Geronimo Trail east from Douglas, Arizona for about 25 miles to Guadalupe Canyon Road. Take a right and continue to the New Mexico state line. Just past the state line, take a forest service road north for two miles to the canyon. Note: The entire route from Douglas is on improved dirt road.

Tombstone- The Earps, Doc Hiliday, and the Clantons shot it out here at the OK Corral on October 25, 1882. Wyatt Earp lived on the southwest corner of First and Fremont at the time of the shootout and James Earp ran a sampling room at 434 Allen in 1880. Billy Clanton, "Old Man'Clanton, Frank and Tom Mc Claury are all buried here i Boothill Cmetery.

Bisbee Junction-Bandits' loot from a train robbery secreted near Bisbee Juction has never been found.

Canyon Station- Treasure from a hold up at Canyon Station, Will C. Barns commented: A large natural cave on Posta Quemada Canyon, eight miles off the the Tucson-Douglas highwy and 19 miles East of Tucson. On the South slope of Wrong Mountain in the Rincon range. Owned by the state. First discovered by a man named Rolls in 1879. A Southern Pacific Railroad train was robbed in 1884 and the robbers trailed to this cave. One man was found dea; the others escaped. OnChristmas, 1902, some Tucson poeple found some old Wells-Fargo scks which proved ot be part of the 1884 toldup upon indentificaion in San Francisco.

Dos Cabeza Mountains- Near Wilcox, A thousand pounds of silver dollars were taken in a train robbery near Wilcox and is still unacccounted for. At 56 poiunds per $1,000 face value, this would amount to close to 20,0000 coins.

Huachucas Mts.- Billy Palmar and J.D. Fennell went over to a coave, 500 feet deep, two mies from V.H. Igo's ranch in the Huachucas, entering at 11 a.m. sunday morning. while below the chamola pouch carried by Palermer dropped from his pocket and with it its contents $260 largely in gold twenties, $60 of which was Fenhell's money. the men hunted for the coin until they used up their candles then tore up their overalls and burned them. The search was in vain. Unable to get out, they waited till help should come. John Palmer and Frank Bope started out early Monday morningl and entered the cave at 9 a.m. and in about an hour found the missing men. the search for the money was not continued as it seemed useless to attempt to find any of it in the crevices- Bisbee- Correspondence Tombstone Prospector 1898.

Sulphur Springs Valley-News was brought to the sheriff's office in Tombstone of the finding of the body of a man in Sulphur Springs Valley who had been dead for a week or more. The remains are believe to be those of a cowboy named dick Jones who was reported missing weeks ago. Whether the unfortunate man was th victim of foul play or not could not be learned.