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The Lavender Pit is a former open pit copper mine near Bisbee in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It is located near the famous Copper Queen Mine. The Lavender Pit was named in honor of Harrison M. Lavender (1890–1952), who as Vice-President and General Manager of Phelps Dodge Corporation, conceived and carried out this plan for making ...
Lowell is a populated place situated in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. [2] It was incorporated into Bisbee in the early 1900s. [3]Originally a residential town, it was later settled by many miners from countries such as Finland, Serbia and Montenegro working in the Lavender Pit mine located there.
The Calumet and Arizona Mining Company organized in March, 1901 and operated several large and profitable mines adjacent to the Copper Queen. By 1907, the C&A was the fourth-most productive copper mine in Arizona, and ran its own smelter in Douglas, Arizona. [5] Phelps Dodge started mining the Lavender open pit in the early 1950s. [4]
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[2] [3] The Grand Oak Farm to Table restaurant was named (it is now closed permanently with the chef overseeing all festival menus) for a thousand-year-old oak tree residing on the property, and most of the food served at the restaurant was produced at the onsite farm. The ranch hosts its Lavender Festival from June to July which celebrates the ...
This is a list of historic properties in Bisbee, Arizona, which includes a photographic gallery of some of the town's historic structures.The majority of these structures are located in the Bisbee Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1980, reference #80004487.
Laveen (/ l ə ˈ v iː n / lə-VEEN) is a community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, situated eight miles (13 km) southwest of Downtown Phoenix, between South Mountain and the confluence of the Gila and Salt rivers. [1]
The 300-square-foot Hayden Flour mill, founded by Zimmerman in 2010, is bringing back some of Arizona's agricultural roots and a part of America's food history he worried had disappeared.