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A steamboat landing, mining and garrison town, absorbed into Fort Mojave Indian Reservation. [24] Mowry [25] The Patagonia Mine Santa Cruz: 1858: 1880: Abandoned: Originally a lead and silver mine called "The Patagonia Mine" which was renamed after Lieutenant Sylvester Mowry purchased the mine from the local Mexicans in 1860.
[1] [2] Both towns were utilized and later abandoned due to the mining of copper in the area. According to James E. Sherman's Ghost Towns of Arizona, Silverbell was "one of the most renowned mining camps in the Southwest," and was also described as "the Hell-hole of Arizona." Today nothing remains of the town other than a cemetery. [3]
Sasco, which is an acronym for the Southern Arizona Smelter Company, was a company town with a large smelter that served several mines. [2] Once an impressive and little-known ghost town, today Sasco is a common sporting destination with shotgun shells, airsoft bb's, paintball splatter, and litter in the area. [3] [4] [5]
Contention City or Contention is a ghost mining town in Cochise County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona.It was occupied from the early 1880s through the late 1880s in what was then known as the Arizona Territory.
High-grade native copper made Ajo the first copper mine in Arizona. Soon the Arizona Mining & Trading company, formed by Peter R. Brady, a friend of Childs, worked the rich surface ores, shipping loads around Cape Horn for smelting in Swansea, Wales, in the mid-1880s. The mine closed when a ship sank off the coast of Patagonia. Long supply ...
Alamo Crossing is a ghost town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The town was settled in the late 1890s, in what was then the Arizona Territory. It served as a camp for mining prospectors in the manganese-rich Artillery Mountains, being the only town in the area. After 1918, the post office permanently closed, but the town was only ...
Mohave City (also spelled as Mojave City) is a ghost town in Mohave County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Arizona.Settled in the 1860s, in what was then the Arizona Territory, it was founded as a river landing and trading center for area miners and soldiers, and was named for Mohave County.
Helvetia is a ghost town in Pima County, Arizona, United States that was settled in 1891 and abandoned in the early 1920s. Helvetia is an ancient name for Switzerland . [ 2 ] Today, only the Ray Mine and cemetery are visitable, as the rest of the town has been fenced off due to active mining operations.