The Petrified Forest was never a secret, but initially, it was not widely known outside of Arizona (except among geologists, among whom news...

When whites first came to the Prescott area, the place known to us as the Granite Dells was first called Point of Rocks. The first newspaper...

Before the Great Fire of July 14, 1900, the Courthouse Plaza was described as a “desolate and neglected waste.” The white rail fence surroun...

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...

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

The Barlow Massicks' "Castle on the Creek" Thomas Gibson Barlow Massicks had just visited his Catoctin Mine and was ridin...

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

The first use of the name “Horsethief Basin” in an Arizona newspaper was on November 1st, 1911, but its history as the heart of a crimina...

As December 25th, 1909, approached, citizens of Prescott were optimistic about the local economy. Ore prices had revived, and it was anno...

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! ...

Frank Morrell Murphy first arrived in Prescott in 1877. "During the next 40 years, he changed almost every aspect of life in Yavapai ...

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

1916 was an auspicious year for Prescott's Courthouse Plaza. In October, the cornerstone was laid for the brand new (and current) Cou...

Sullivan Lake Dam under construction The mysterious ruins: What are those smaller stone structures? A couple of miles south of ...

There are many stories surrounding how "Bloody Basin" got its name. Some say that it's from a mass slaughter of sheep du...

Nestled along the Granite Dells, Watson Lake makes for one of the most picturesque scenes in Prescott.  Watson is a man-made lake created i...

On January 31, 1940, the current identity of Prescott, Arizona, was established. The drive to move Prescott from an old mining town and f...