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

The genesis of White Horse City was the locating of three mines in the Walker district in the Spring of 1899. The original owners, GM Wright...

A Journal-Miner editorial described the second Pioneers Home supervisor, Percy V Coldwell, as “a malodorous individual, infecting this city,...

Initially, one might dismiss an account of over 230 pounds  of placer gold just waiting to be found, but the Catholic Church had enough fait...

Pioneers' Home, Christmas Dinner As Christmas 1934 approached, the Great Depression was hanging on doggedly. Yet by this time, people we...

“It was a piteous scene and remarkable in the extreme,” the Journal-Miner observed. Harrison Yarnell (for whom Yarnell, Arizona, is named) s...

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

For attorney AG Baker, it was a routine chore. He left his office with a will in hand to be signed by a paralytic Pioneers’ Home resident...

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

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

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

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a superstar recognized by nearly everyone. So when...

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...