Before the arrival of the railroad on January 1, 1887, prices for groceries, travel, and nearly everything else were astonishingly high, and...

Some Yavapai County townsites were as speculative as the mineral worth of the ground they stood on. Two towns had particularly short existen...

In 1970, Prescott, Arizona, was still a small town. According to the Census Bureau, the population that year was 13,631--an increase of 770 ...

Its name could be confusing to modern readers. It was a large hall in the city, so the owner, George W Curtis, named it “City Hall”. However...

Ad for Election Day, 1918 “Arizona has a compulsory vaccination law, but it has long been a dead letter,” the Citizen wrote. “There has been...

Ironically, Prescott’s 50th anniversary was largely celebrated... elsewhere. It was the Phoenix Board of Trade that had the idea of celebrat...

It is the Juniper House that is rightly designated as Prescott's first hotel. However, the Dudley House was the first hotel to offer som...

The Christmas of 1897 was a bright one for Prescott. “It is only two days until Christmas, yet the very air breathes of the coming event,” t...

Gurley Street, 1933 It was the poorest of times. It was the richest of times. Despite being in the depths of the Great Depression, Presc...

In the early 20th century, before there were Halloween treats, there were Halloween tricks. Children and teenagers all across the country...

Particularly during big events, Prescott perennially has suffered a shortage of hotel space. Even today, people attending the World’s Old...

The Congress Hotel was located on Gurley St. on the western lot of today's Hassayampa Inn. It was just before 3 am, July 12, 1923. EA Ch...

Daniel B Gillette needed a mill for his Tip-Top mines, and the mill needed water. He found a spot 6 miles away on the Aqua Fria River. In...

Prescott's first ice cream ad. It took 10 years after Prescott’s founding before ice cream appeared at a social function, and then ...

The first Anglo to dwell at the Castle Creek Hot Springs was a miner by the name of George Monroe, who discovered it in the 1870s. “At th...

For decades, the history of what was once an iconic building on the Plaza lay veiled. It was known as Howey Hall, and it stood in service...

Perhaps it was because their hearts were extra-lonely. Perhaps it was because they were caught up in the romance of Western novels. Per...

In 1913, the Arizona State Legislature allowed for counties to use a certain amount of property tax dollars “for the support and furthera...

The first Thanksgiving Day, November 9th, 1866, was a solemn one in Prescott. Some were thankful that the Union had been preserved, whi...

John Frye was a well-liked 20-year-old who came to Prescott and got a job as a correspondence clerk at the Prescott State Bank. In mid-F...