The historic Pinal Cemetery, ca. 1880 to approximately 1920, served the residents of Pinal and the mill workers from Silver King Mine. Following the mine closure in 1888, Pinal was depopulated but the cemetery was still used by the residents of the new copper camp, Superior.
WINSLOW — Most Chamber of Commerce office buildings are just that — office buildings. But the structure that houses the Winslow Chamber of Commerce is an important slice of history.
GLENDALE — Max Beyer’s original plan was to hang a few football helmets on the walls of the sports bar he opened in 1979. It was the first establishment of its kind west of the Mississippi River and it needed a theme, so Beyer went with the helmets he had collected.
Have you heard the one about how Anthony Blum’s deathbed confession kept him out of jail? It happened more than a century ago. In 1910, Blum was on trial in Connecticut, accused of bilking Father Arthur DeBruycker of $5,000 in a scheme involving a fake mining claim in Gleeson, Arizona Territory.
Up in the high desert around Winslow, there’s still talk of Cecil Cresswell. Despite the name, Cecil was a woman and also Arizona’s first (and probably only) female rustler. She didn’t take a lot of cattle, just enough to tide her over while she scraped out a living in the unforgiving desert.
