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Joseph Mayer
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March 30, 2025
The Great Flood of 1891
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One year after the terrible storm that caused the Walnut Grove dam disaster, an even worse, two-part storm flooded Yavapai County.
September 16, 2018
The Story Behind Prescott's Street Cars UPDATED!
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"Today, May 19, 1903," the newspaper proclaimed, "will mark the beginning of a new era in the industrial progress of the ...
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September 3, 2017
Mayer Onyx Was Unique, Beautiful, World Famous (Updated)
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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...
March 19, 2017
Entrepreneur Joseph Mayer & His Town
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Joseph Mayer It was with a small amount of irony that Joseph Mayer's funeral was held in Prescott. For it was a fateful trip to th...
September 11, 2016
Cactus Needles for Toothpicks? (An Early Mayer Industry)
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Anyone who has ever suffered the burn of being "bitten" by one of our local cacti will tell you that the last place you'd w...
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