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Historic Wickenburg, Arizona Henry Wickenburg built what is known as the Wickenburg-Boetto House in 1900. The house is located at 225 S. Washington and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1986. Reference number#86001584.
Wickenburg Town Hall located at 155 North Tegner Street Along the town's main historic district, early businesses built many structures that still form Wickenburg's downtown area. Tourism led to the development of guest ranches , with as many as 14 operating in the 1950s and 1960s, when Wickenburg billed itself as the "Dude Ranch Capital of the ...
Vulture City's post office was established on October 4, 1880, and Henry Wickenburg was the town's first postmaster. The town had more than five boarding houses and several buildings. The huge Vulture Mine-Assay Office building, built in 1884, still stands today. The town also had a cookhouse and mess hall plus stores, saloons and even a school ...
Congress (aka Old Congress) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. Once a gold-mining center for the Congress Mine and then a ghost town, Congress now serves as a retirement and bedroom community for nearby Wickenburg. The population was 1,811 at the 2020 census. [2]
The mine began in 1863 and became the most productive gold mine in Arizona history. From 1863 to 1942 A.D., the mine produced 340,000 ounces (9,638.8 kgs) of gold and 260,000 ounces (7,370.9 kgs) of silver. [1] Historically, the mine attracted more than 5,000 people to the area, and is credited with founding the town of Wickenburg, Arizona. [2]
Restored in early 2000s, now features restaurants, shops and Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. Tucson: EP&SW: 1913: Last passenger service 1960s. Still stands; was used as a restaurant. Vacant in 2007. Wellton: SPRR: Wickenburg: ATSF: 1895: Built by Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. Last Santa Fe passenger service April 1969. Still ...
Henry Wickenburg (November 21, 1819 – May 14, 1905) was a Prussian prospector who discovered the Vulture Mine and founded the town of Wickenburg in the U.S. state of Arizona. Wickenburg never married.
La Paz–Wikenburg Road was a 131-mile-long (211 km) wagon road from 1863 and from 1866 a stagecoach route between the Colorado River landings at La Paz, Olive City and Mineral City to the mining town of Wickenburg, Arizona. From Wickenburg roads led to other new mining camps and districts in the interior of Arizona Territory. From 1862, when ...