The Petrified Forest was never a secret, but initially, it was not widely known outside of Arizona (except among geologists, among whom news...

The first bridge to conquer Hell Canyon was a railroad cut-off that took the entirety of 1901 to complete. The new route would shorten the t...

Its name could be confusing to modern readers. It was a large hall in the city, so the owner, George W Curtis, named it “City Hall”. However...

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...

Due to their over-the-top, Mardi Gras-quality costumes, pictures of “The Horribles” often appear around Halloween in Prescott. However, thei...

  If newspaper reviews are any indication, “The Power of Silence” (the sixth movie made in Prescott) was the best one Lubin produced there i...

The only surviving image from "The Cringer" There are no known surviving copies of the first movie filmed in Yavapai County. Howev...

The Christmas of 1897 was a bright one for Prescott. “It is only two days until Christmas, yet the very air breathes of the coming event,” t...

William Harrison Hardy had a good gig going. He owned businesses in a town named for him: Hardyville (present-day Bullhead City). He also ow...

The Arizona Republican wrote in 1890: “The murder was one of the most cold-blooded ever committed in this territory, and is universally cond...

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...

Oro Belle Mine & Mill in the Bradshaw Mountains It was Autumn, 1863. Prescott had not yet been founded. William Bradshaw and a gro...

When electricity arrived in Prescott, it was not immediately embraced. Instead, the illumination of the city came with fits and starts. ...

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...

Prescott's first ice cream ad. It took 10 years after Prescott’s founding before ice cream appeared at a social function, and then ...

For over a century, Goldwater's general merchandise store not only offered the staples of life but also brought first-class merchandis...

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

The Cold War had an effect on Christmas in 1966. With "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," James Bond, and even "Get Smart...