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...

Many lost treasure stories are based on lore and campfire stories. This one is based on newspaper accounts of a tragedy.

One year after the terrible storm that caused the Walnut Grove dam disaster, an even worse, two-part storm flooded Yavapai County.

Prescott Journal-Miner, 2/9/1917 Pg. 6 Col. 5 They would usually appear in February after the harshest days of winter, and stayed until May....

In 1994, 16 people from the Yavapai Chapter of the Arizona Archeological Society spent over 400 hours investigating the lot at 140 North...

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

(Not the skeleton found in AZ) The 1911 monsoon floods had cut a new wash through the farm that Peter Marx had been working since 1870. By...

Joseph Mayer It was with a small amount of irony that Joseph Mayer's funeral was held in Prescott. For it was a fateful trip to th...

Walnut Grove Dam The Dam: "Besides being the largest piece of solid masonry in the United States, [the Walnut Grove Dam] also...

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

Most cultures have ancient stories of their beginnings. The Yavapai people are no exception. Their story is recorded in  "Oral Histo...

If there was any question of whether the winter of 1916 would be a wet one, the answer was received on New Year's Eve of 1915. ...