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Globe (Western Apache: Bésh Baa Gowąh "Place of Metal") [3] is a city in and the county seat [4] of Gila County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 7,249. [ 5 ]
[2] [3] After his arrival in Globe, he initially worked at a sawmill, where he lost an arm. [4] He was married to Clara Kinney. [5] Sometime in late 1888, or early January 1889, Kinney purchased the Globe Soda Water Works. [6] In 1891 Kinney purchased a commercial ice making machine, after which the company was renamed The Globe Ice and Soda Works.
The act became the official law governing the district. The townsite of 'Globe City' was officially laid out in July 1876. Globe became the seat of Gila County, a new Arizona county, in February 1881. [1] [2] [3] The price of silver had decreased by 1881, however by the same token the price of copper increased.
The project was under the supervision of another famous frontier scout, "Yellowstone" Luther Kelly at Apache Trail, a separate downstream road, Maricopa County, Arizona. Sieber was killed when a boulder rolled on him during construction. [notes 3] [21] He was buried with military honors at the cemetery in Globe, Arizona. [4]
The Arizona Silver Belt is a newspaper in Globe, Arizona. [2] [3] [4] History. The newspaper was first published on May 2, 1878.
The Kelvin Grade massacre was an incident that occurred on November 2, 1889 when a group of nine imprisoned Apache escaped from police custody during a prisoner transfer near the town of Globe, Arizona. The escape resulted in the deaths of two sheriffs and triggered one of the largest manhunts in Arizona history.
Mofford was born Rose Perica in Globe, Arizona, on June 10, 1922, the youngest of six children.Her parents, Frances (Oberstar) and John Perica, [3] had immigrated to the United States from Croatia, then part of Austria-Hungary.
The Globe Downtown Historic District encompasses a group of commercial, religious, and governmental buildings related to the status of Globe as the economic and governmental center of Gila County. Globe was designated as the County Seat of Gila County and grew into the primary economic and commercial center of the Globe mining region.