Entries Containing All of the Phrases «cochise county» AND «arizona»

By Bill Kirchner, March 2, 2010

Library Hall the Douglas Public Library

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1 ► Arizona, Cochise county, Douglas — Library Hall - The Douglas Public Library —

Library Hall was built in 1901 and has served as a Town Hall, a Church, a School and a Library. The building was given to the City of Douglas in March, 1973, by the Phelps Dodge Corporation. — — Map (db m28298) HM

2 ► Arizona, Cochise County, Pearce — John Ringo — Historic Site —

The remains of this noted gunman and outlaw lie here. A teamster traveling from West Turkey Creek found the body sitting in the fork of a nearby oak tree with a bullet hole in the right temple. A coroner's jury reported the death to be suicide, . . . — — Map (db m28365) HM

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3 ► Georgia, Glynn County, Jekyll Island — Fairbank Cottage Site — The Most Desirable Site —

The brick outline that you see in front of you marks the former Location of Fairbank Cottage. When Chicago manufacturer Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank purchased the lot in 1889, he was excited about the possibilities of his new cottage. Fairbank . . . — — Map (db m115121) HM

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4 ► Arizona, Yavapai County, Prescott — Grace M. Sparkes — 1893 – 1963 —

There was a time when progress in Yavapai County was spelled S-P-A-R-K-E-S. Grace M. Sparkes came to Prescott, Arizona Territory, at the age of 14 in 1906. By 1911, she was working for the Yavapai County Chamber of Commerce as Secretary, a job she . . . — — Map (db m33137) HM

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5 ► Arizona, Pima County, Tucson, Historic Fourth Avenue — Wyatt Earp Shot Frank Stilwell… —

Wyatt Earp joined his four brothers in the silver-boom town of Tombstone in 1879 where brother Virgil was deputy U.S. marshal. Wyatt was a sometimes-lawman himself, and hoped to become sheriff of the newly formed Cochise County in 1881. . . . — — Map (db m28929) HM

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6 ► Arizona, Cochise County, Tombstone — 39 — Cochise County Courthouse — 1882 —

In 1882, construction began on the Cochise County Courthouse. A kiln was constructed and brick makers were hired to make brick to construct the new courthouse. The cornerstone was laid on August 11, 1882 and the beautiful Victorian Building was . . . — — Map (db m249809) HM

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7 ► Oklahoma, Caddo County, Anadarko — Cochise — Chiricahua Apache Chief — 1800-1874 —

Chief Cochise was a great leader of his people. He was accused falsely of a kidnapping and members of his tribe were killed by soldiers. He became a bitter enemy of the White man. Sculptor: Betty Butts — — Map (db m182527) HM

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8 ► Arizona, Cochise County, Dragoon — Texas Canyon Pioneer Cemetery — Final Resting Place of Texas Canyon's earliest settlers and their descendants —

In 1895, seventeen-year-old William Walter Adams left Coleman County, Texas, to visit his older brother, Dave A. Adams, who was one of the first of the Adams family to settle in the Little Dragoon Mountains of Cochise County. "Will," soon decided . . . — — Map (db m216038) HM

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9 ► Arizona, Cochise County, Tombstone — City Marshall Virgil Earp —

Virgil Earp was ambushed here and crippled for life as an aftermath of the OK battle-Dec 28, 1881 — — Map (db m61873) HM

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