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The Supreme Court's ruling in 1906 further served to depopulate the San Pedro Valley by triggering an exodus from the area. Boquillas allowed only a handful of favored families and their businesses to remain in Fairbank, along with a few other families living on land that had been sold previously by George Hearst. [1]
Fairbank is a ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, next to the San Pedro River. First settled in 1881, Fairbank was the closest rail stop to nearby Tombstone , which made it an important location in the development of southeastern Arizona.
James Ohio Pattie and his father led a party of fur trappers down the Gila River and then down the San Pedro River in 1826 which was so successful that he called the San Pedro the Beaver River. [2] The party was attacked by Apache Indians (probably the Aravaipa Band) at "Battle Hill" (probably Modern-day Malpais Hill) where they subsequently ...
ISBN 1-874745-04-8. Surface Transportation Board (2006). "San Pedro Railroad Operating Company, LLC – Abandonment Exemption – Cochise County, AZ" "San Pedro & Southwestern Railroad – SPSR". Western Shortline Rosters. trainweb.org. 2004; Sullivan, Michael (December 21, 2005).
Fairbanks (also known as Fairbanks Corner) is a village in the town of Coventry, Rhode Island [1] on Route 14, Plainfield Pike, right after the village of Rice City and near the Connecticut border. In the 1783 Colonel John McGregor, a Revolutionary War veteran, opened a tavern on the Plainfield Pike in the area, and in 1831 the tavern became ...
Seymour, Deni J., 2003 "Sobaipuri-Pima Occupation in the Upper San Pedro Valley: San Pablo de Quiburi." New Mexico Historical Review 78(2):147–166. Seymour, Deni J., 2007a "A Syndetic Approach to Identification of the Historic Mission Site of San Cayetano Del Tumacácori." International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Vol. 11(3):269–296.
Fairbanks Ranch Country Club is a neighborhood and private golf club in northern San Diego, California.The area is bordered by the unincorporated San Diego County communities of Rancho Santa Fe to the north and Fairbanks Ranch to the east, the city of San Diego neighborhood of Pacific Highlands Ranch to the south, and undeveloped natural areas of North City, San Diego, to the west.
Gold-quartz-sulfide hydrothermal vein at the old Grant Mine, Fairbanks Mining District. The Fairbanks mining district is a gold-mining area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Placer mining began near Fairbanks in July 1902, after Felix Pedro (real name Felice Pedroni), an Italian immigrant and Tom Gilmore discovered gold in the hills north of the Tanana and Chena Rivers in 1901.