In 1863 Pauline Weaver and Abraham Peeples came from California to find gold. They found gold and the rush was on. In 1887 The Congress mine was formed and the town had a name. On March 14, 1895 the railroad came. Congress was booming. In 1910, . . . — — Map (db m59977) HM
Erected
in Memory of
Charles Churchill Small
Member American Society of
Civil Engineers
1874 [ Relief of Charles Small ] 1932
Father of Arizona Highways — — Map (db m29470) HM
Congress, Arizona was born as a gold mining camp on the side of the
Date Creek Mountains where locally known prospector Dennis May claimed
to have discovered gold in 1870, although his claim of discovery continues
to be disputed. In 1887, May . . . — — Map (db m235866) HM
