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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 ...
Erie Street is famous for its vintage charm, but a key business faces closure.
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]
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.
The town not only had residences, but it also had a business district, a hospital, schools, and a town park. By 1930, the United Verde Mining Co. had built 500 houses in Clarkdale [4] [5] The original Clarkdale town site is recognized as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.