Wiccan Road To Ghosts -

Navajo County Ghost Towns

Adair- A small farming settlement with a post office from 1899 to 1906.

Aripine/Jaoppa-Near Heber- Farming structure remnants. Founded as a Mormon farming community, this town died for lack of water. Today it is inhabited. Post office cme as Jaoppa in 1912 and discontinued 1913. Reestablished in 1922 as Aripine.

Ballinger's Camp/Brigham City-Name changed to Brigham City in 1878. There were three hundred residents and a grist mill. In 1881, the Mormon Church sanctioned its closing and only one family remained. Post office that came in 1878 was discontinued in 1882.

Cedar Springs- Near Dilcon, close to the Hubbell's Trading Post building, with foundations and two stone cabins as footprints. Established as a trading post in the 1880's; the post office was first established under the name Cedar Springs in 1910 and changed to the name Cedar Spring in 1930 and then discontinued in 1934.

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Linden- A small Mormon community with a post office in 1891 which was discontinued in 1958.

Standard- In 1922, the Standard Lumber Company built a sawmill there. The post office came in 1924 and left in 1938.

Sunset- Near Winslow with a graveyard located on the grounds of Homolovi State Park about a 250- yard walk from the Visitor's Center. One bridge pier remains visible in the Little Colorado at the site of the original settlement.Founded by Mormons in 1876, Sunset was the location of a major mill and other industrial enterprises; the settlement was abandoned in 1887 but some remnants were still visible until the flood of 1933

In 1855, a prospector named Darington placed $150,000 in gold in his wife's coffin with plans to send her back to Illinois. He died before the plan was finished and gravediggers buried he and his wife at Sunset Crossing in an unmarked grave.

Toreva- Village had a post office from 12900 to 1937.

Woodruff- Another flood ravaged town, today a semi-ghost.
Many original and abandoned buildings are among current buildings.

Not founded by Mormons but they sold the town to them in the 1880s. Like other towns on the Little Colorado River, Woodruff suffered from regular floods. Its post office came in 1880 and discontinued at some unknown time.

Zeniff -About 15 miles SW of Holbrook off SR 377 near Dry Lake. Three adobe buildings and a set of stone walls. Zeniff was a Mormon farming community regularly ravaged by floods. Post office opened in 1922.

NAVAJO COUNTY TREASURES

Bush Creek- A large pot, containing a fortune, lies hidden on Bush Creek, a tributary of Rousensock Canyon. It contained gold nuggets buried by a German prospector whose name was Rose.

Indian Wells- Three Navajo Indians knew the location of a cave with a floor littered with gold nuggets and ingots in the 1860s. They took Henry Adams to the cave blindfolded. The cave was to the Southwest and up a steep hill from the base of a towering cliff. Adams saw three peaks, nearly identical in size and shape looking out from the cave entrance, one night’s ride from Fort Defiance. Adams searched for years for he treasure cave but never found it. Some believe the treasure cave is located in the cliffs North of Indian Wells.

Winslow- In 1878, robbers attacked a wagon train in Chavz Pass, thirty miles Southwest of Winslow. Only two men lived; the others massacred. The two survivors said before the attack, they buried the valuables and cash of the wagon train near the campsite. They found the remains of the burnt wagon but not the treasure.