It is surprising that a hundred years ago, meteorite strikes received only a brief mention in newspapers. Today, one can imagine several loc...

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

November 25, 1925, was a disastrous day in Yavapai County. Four banks suddenly and permanently closed their doors, and people’s deposits wer...

It was autumn when a representative of the Arizona Miner made a railway trip from Jerome Junction (today a part of southern Chino Valley), a...

  It was late autumn 1900 when a minor cave-in occurred in the giant United Verde mine in Jerome. On December 3, as workers cleared the mess...

When it was announced that the narrow single-lane trail through the Granite Dells would be widened into a highway, Grace Sparkes was not alo...

The town of Clarkdale was a pet project for Senator William A Clark, owner of the United Verde mine in Jerome. It was the first planned comm...

One year before the fire; almost all of this would be destroyed. The Journal-Miner described it as “one of the greatest calamities in the lo...

From its beginning and for the better part of a century, Prescott desired to be a modern city in stark contrast to the surrounding wildernes...

Prohibition went into effect on January 1, 1915, and Sheriff Joe Young was intent on making it stick. It was the middle of May when he made ...

Mingus Mountain Inn, 1949. In the 1920s, cars were far less dependable and, as a result, service stations were more numerous and spa...

When Thanksgiving first became a holiday, Prescott was newly born. The first celebrations were muted in both Prescott and the Southwest, ...

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

Although some had attempted to develop the Granite Dells into a recreational attraction previously, all had fallen short. Enter business...

The first automobile to drive into Prescott was a brand new 1903 "Curved Dash" Oldsmobile, which was also the first car ever to ...

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

Many have heard that the Jerome Grand Hotel is haunted--it's been featured on cable television. But few know exactly what kinds of ...

United Verde Mine, Jerome, Arizona December 20th, 1925, seemed a day like any other. People were busy getting into the Christmas spirit,...