History

Just over a year ago, the Fairbank Adobe Commercial Building — the largest and most visible structure at the Fairbank Historic Townsite — was clinging to life. By last fall, the building’s condition required a full structural intervention.

Notoriously known as the location where the gunfight at the O.K. Corral happened, Tombstone is one of the classic mining boom towns of the American frontier.

This General Land Office record of the week takes you on a brief journey of early homesteading in Northern Arizona and how Sedona eventually got it’s name.

Chloride is an old silver chloride mining town that was established in the early 1860's and is considered the oldest continuously inhabited town in Arizona.

Considered one of the more unusually named towns in the United States, Snowflake only averages about one foot of snow per year, and has a relatively temperate climate for central Arizona.