Today, Skull Valley is a sleepy little burg, but there was a time when the town had several area mines, a quartz mill, a dairy, a number of ...

  It was late autumn 1900 when a minor cave-in occurred in the giant United Verde mine in Jerome. On December 3, as workers cleared the mess...

The town of Clarkdale was a pet project for Senator William A Clark, owner of the United Verde mine in Jerome. It was the first planned comm...

  The evening of September 24, 1904, was windy, and the smelter’s open building provided some relief from the heat of the furnace. Around 9p...

In the early prospecting days of the 19th century, the Senator and other adjacent mines were thought to be a bonanza of gold ore. They worke...

Christmas 1921 in Prescott would see several dances, children’s events, charitable acts, and a new set of street lights for downtown. It wou...

His name was Davis Robert Poland, and he was a true frontier placer miner. He came to Yavapai County early, when one could walk down a cr...

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 February 1913, a road crew started digging "where the grade of the Verde railway passes" over Sycamore Creek in order to faci...

United Verde Mine, Jerome, Arizona December 20th, 1925, seemed a day like any other. People were busy getting into the Christmas spirit,...

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

Cynics say it was a memorial to a boondoggle. Locals say it was a memorial to Mayer's mining history. Unwittingly, it was also a memo...