The White Spar Road is the portion of Arizona State Route 89 that is located within the boundaries of the Prescott National Forest.  And f...

  It was only 10 years after the first automobile, a 1903 “Curved-Dash” Oldsmobile from Jerome, which actually only drove from Jerome Juncti...

Consensus knows that Prescott gets snow, but it seldom lasts long—often melting away before evening. This was the reasoning behind the city ...

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...

There was a time when Senator Highway was being considered as a part of the north-south territorial highway, connecting Prescott to Phoenix,...

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...

Gurley Street, 1933 It was the poorest of times. It was the richest of times. Despite being in the depths of the Great Depression, Presc...

“Yesterdays in Prescott are memorable for their mud, their amiable let-it-alone [attitude] and their slow fight to weld public opinion ...

Each day, over 40,000 vehicles pass through the Cordes Junction interchange connecting I-17 with Arizona Highway 69. Few are aware that t...

The Congress Hotel was located on Gurley St. on the western lot of today's Hassayampa Inn. It was just before 3 am, July 12, 1923. EA Ch...

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

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...

Palace Station, located 17 miles south of Prescott, is one of the most famous stage stops in Yavapai County. Having been built in 1875,...

"Today, May 19, 1903," the newspaper proclaimed, "will mark the beginning of a new era in the industrial progress of the ...

Those unfamiliar with the agricultural past of Yavapai County are sure to be astonished by the variety and success of the crops. Almost an...

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! ...

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

When automobiles were new inventions, it was inevitable that at least some cowboys would decide to try to replace their horses with cars i...

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

The headline in the paper spoke to the shock of the city:   "TEENS HELD IN PRESCOTT GANG DEATH." It began as seven males we...