It was a far-sighted Dan Fain who offered a square mile of land north of Prescott for use as an airport under a ten-year lease. Previously, ...

Christmas 1921 in Prescott would see several dances, children’s events, charitable acts, and a new set of street lights for downtown. It wou...

“Prescott has a splendid record with respect to cleanliness of the city and its environs,” the Weekly Journal-Miner noted in 1922, “but in o...

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

Dud Clark had been contracted to build a road from Prescott to Ash Fork when Lee Burhans called out to him. “Burhans was a member of a picni...

The Christmas of 1920 was both old-fashioned and heartwarming.

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

Old City Dam, 1920s By the time summer came along, water pressure had consistently fallen so low that everyone was required to boil it....

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

Above all other Christmases, 1918 was the biggest “stay-at-home” Christmas in the 20th century. This was due to the practicalities of de...

Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. (1862-1932) Member of the British Parliament, novelist, and Knight, Sir Gilbert Parker landed in Lakewood, New ...

One of Franklin Roosevelt's most popular Depression programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC enrolled unskilled and une...

It was inevitable that Grace Sparks and Grace Chapman would join together. They both had a deep love for serving civically. Even in their ...

A trip to downtown Prescott in the 19th century often included a gander into the store windows. Generally, merchants would display the ver...

By 1935, the slow-moving disaster had become genuinely alarming. "The possibility of the absolute destruction of the Prescott Nationa...

Teddy Roosevelt once said: "Chautauqua is the most American thing in America!" (*1) "Chautauqua is an institution that b...

As Professor Price sat on the train, he looked again at the sample of onyx sent to him from Mayer, Arizona. So impressed was he by the be...

By 1910, it seemed that Prescott was the only city of appreciable size in Arizona that did not have a Chamber of Commerce. There had bee...

According to Lew Rees, former Fain Signature Group executive director and former CEO of the Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce, Bill Fai...

When it first opened on August 1st, 1920, it was declared "Yavapai's Greatest Attraction." (*1) "Members of the N...