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

Prescott was aghast when the Yavapai County Treasurer, James P Storm, was found bound and gagged in the county’s vault by his daughter, who ...

How is it that the very heart of Prescott—its downtown Plaza—happened to become property of Yavapai County?   When queried, even local histo...

It was February 11, 1922, when Mr. and Mrs. John A Rounds left with a neighbor, “Grady” CB Bartley, to find some firewood. While the couple ...

It was Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s first trip to Arizona. He was on the way to inspect the area Army camps. He would visit Camp Verde be...

Note: This was originally written as a "Days Past" article in June 2018. However, since the Sharlot Hall Museum website was hacke...

Miss Virginia Hite, a popular school teacher, arrived at the Plaza with her horse in a lather. She had come from the Sweeney and Anderson mi...

The Christmas of 1920 was both old-fashioned and heartwarming.

As soon as news reached Prescott of William “Buckey” O’Neill’s death in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, one of his closest friends,...

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

In 1867,  the only permanent structure on Prescott's Plaza was a flagpole.  But one morning in March, people arriving downtown came ...

Through the years, Prescott's Plaza has been blessed with a few beloved, exceptional animals that stole the hearts of the entire city...

Before the Courthouse was built, the Plaza fielded baseball games. As Robert Groom plotted out Prescott and created the Plaza in the m...

A trip to downtown Prescott in the 19th century often included a gander into the store windows. Generally, merchants would display the ver...

The reasons why Yavapai County needed a new, third, (and current) courthouse seemed endless. First, the Old Courthouse had become too sma...

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

The construction of the "Old" (2nd) Yavapai County Courthouse was so terrible, so shoddy-- even slapstick --that a sane man mig...

After the cornerstone was laid, ( story here ,)  construction started immediately. Under the contract, the courthouse was supposed to b...

Cornerstone of the Yavapai County Courthouse was laid October 19th, 1916 After the contract to build the new courthouse was signed ( st...

The Old (2nd) Yavapai County Courthouse, 1878-1916 There were four reasons why Yavapai County needed a new courthouse. First, the old on...