Anecdotes of Prescott History Brought to Life From the Pages of Old Newspapers and Other Sources.
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Frank Murphy
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Frank Murphy
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August 3, 2025
The Ultra-Lavish Yavapai Club Building
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“The object of the organizers [of the Yavapai Club] was to induce a healthful mingling of recreation, pleasure, and business, and the object...
June 9, 2024
Teddy Roosevelt in Arizona and Prescott
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Roosevelt speaking in Phoenix, Sep. 1912 The day the Buckey O’Neill Rough Rider monument was unveiled on the Plaza (July 3,1907,) it was h...
January 1, 2022
Robert Todd Lincoln Visited Prescott Thrice
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It was early February 1894 when the announcement was made in the Journal-Miner that Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, w...
May 17, 2020
Railroad's Arrival Brought a Gala Day in Prescott
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Prescott's 1st depot for the Prescott & Central Arizona RR As the last month of 1886 began, anticipation in the young capital o...
September 1, 2019
Congress Hotel Fire Changed Prescott
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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...
December 16, 2018
Christmas 1909: Big Snow, Big Gifts
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As December 25th, 1909, approached, citizens of Prescott were optimistic about the local economy. Ore prices had revived, and it was anno...
September 30, 2018
Famous Novelist & Statesman Falls In Love With Prescott
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Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. (1862-1932) Member of the British Parliament, novelist, and Knight, Sir Gilbert Parker landed in Lakewood, New ...
June 24, 2018
The Invasion of the Horseless Carriage!
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It was 1903 when the first automobile drove into Prescott, and before the year was over, the city fell in love with the new contraption! ...
June 10, 2018
Prescott's Forgotten Railroad Developer & Philanthropist
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Frank Morrell Murphy first arrived in Prescott in 1877. "During the next 40 years, he changed almost every aspect of life in Yavapai ...
January 8, 2017
Arizona Pioneers' Home: A Gibraltar of Civic Pride
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Whatever happened to the pioneer miners when they got too old to work? As Prescott began to mature at the beginning of the 20th centur...
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