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Main Street in Cottonwood was created 1908, when two settlers "used a mule team to pull and drag through brush". [5] In 1917, Clemenceau, a mining town that is now part of Cottonwood, was established nearby. [5] The Clemenceau smelter closed in 1936, causing job loses and a disruption to the area. [5] Cottonwood incorporated in 1960. [6]
The Bank of Arizona building is located at 816 N. Main Street Cottonwood, AZ 86326. Opened Jan 25, 1954 as the "most modern" in the state with drive-in teller and complete Air Conditioning. It housed the City of Cottonwood police department until a consolidated police, fire, EMS presence was constructed on 6th Street in the 1990s.
The Jerome Grand Hotel is well noted to be the highest commercial building in the Verde Valley, being at a height of 5240 feet above sea level. The hotel was built as a Mission Revival Style of architecture and was the last major building to be constructed in Jerome. The building was considered by many a masterpiece of architecture because, not ...
Pecks Lake is a small reservoir, fed by water from the adjacent Verde River, near Clarkdale in the U.S. state of Arizona. The name of the nearby Tuzigoot National Monument comes from an Apache word, Tuzigoot, meaning crooked water. [3] The "crooked water" reference is to Pecks Lake, [3] established in a cutoff meander of the river. [4]
Verde Independent is a local newspaper serving Cottonwood, Arizona. It was founded in 1948 by Richard Brann, who built the paper's first offices from World War II surplus Quonset huts . [ 2 ] The original buildings were located on a river rock foundation in Smelter City, Arizona .
State Route 89A (SR 89A) is an 83.85-mile (134.94 km) state highway that runs from Prescott north to Flagstaff in the U.S. state of Arizona.The highway begins at SR 89 in Yavapai County and heads northward from Prescott Valley, entering Jerome.
Verde Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The population was 11,605 at the 2010 census . It is a retirement and bedroom community for Cottonwood .
Cottonwood Valley is a wide valley on the Colorado River on the border between Mohave County, Arizona and Clark County, Nevada.It extends east and west from the river into both states and is the first wide valley south of the Black Canyon of the Colorado, the last in a series of great canyons the Colorado River passes through after leaving the Rocky Mountains on its way west and where it makes ...