“Saturday, April 25, 1885, 3:40 PM: The town of Ash Fork is now on fire,” the Albuquerque Evening Democrat proclaimed. “So far nine building...

In 1970, Prescott, Arizona, was still a small town. According to the Census Bureau, the population that year was 13,631--an increase of 770 ...

(Forgive the typo!) In 1903, William Randolph Hearst was a 40-year-old newspaper baron and US Congressman from New York who was under seriou...

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...

Prohibition went into effect on January 1, 1915, and Sheriff Joe Young was intent on making it stick. It was the middle of May when he made ...

  No one knows what the business was actually named. A Sanborn-Perris mapmaker identified it only as “Chinese” in 1895.  This writer might h...

Particularly during big events, Prescott perennially has suffered a shortage of hotel space. Even today, people attending the World’s Old...

Daniel B Gillette needed a mill for his Tip-Top mines, and the mill needed water. He found a spot 6 miles away on the Aqua Fria River. In...

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