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April 10, 2022
Williamson Valley's Astonishing Duck Migrations
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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....
March 13, 2022
Pleistocene Prescott Valley
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It was 1984 on the Fain ranch near the headwaters of the Aqua Fria River when A. Jordan peered into a 13-foot deep arroyo and noticed a part...
January 27, 2019
Horsethief Basin: Heart of a Rustlin' Racket
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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...
February 5, 2017
1890: The Dam, The Drunk, & The Disaster
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Walnut Grove Dam The Dam: "Besides being the largest piece of solid masonry in the United States, [the Walnut Grove Dam] also...
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November 27, 2016
The Mysterious Ruins at Sullivan Lake *UPDATED*
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Sullivan Lake Dam under construction The mysterious ruins: What are those smaller stone structures? A couple of miles south of ...
December 7, 2015
The Great Blizzard and Flood of 1916
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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. ...
May 14, 2015
Prescott was Hollywood for Silent Westerns
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(Tom Mix with an unknown starlet in an unknown film.) What do these movies: "Creepshow 2," "Universal Soldier," ...
April 30, 2015
The Birth of Watson Lake
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Nestled along the Granite Dells, Watson Lake makes for one of the most picturesque scenes in Prescott. Watson is a man-made lake created i...
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