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1880: Last passenger service 1971. Razed 1970s. Replica of depot building constructed on this location in early 2000s for Chamber of Commerce. Amtrak's Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle stop at a shed nearby. Benson: SPSR: Portable-module structure located one mile south of downtown.
The town was established on Goose Flats, a mesa above the Goodenough Mine. Within two years of its founding, although far distant from any other metropolitan area, Tombstone had a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice-cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous dance halls and brothels.
The Tombstone Epitaph building – The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper was established in this building, constructed in 1880 at 11 S. 5th Street, as a Republican paper under the operation of John P. Clum, Thomas Sorin, and later that year, Charles Reppy. [1] [8] The Bird Cage Theatre – The theater was built in 1881 at 535 E. Allen Street. It was ...
"Map of Arizona Railroads" (PDF). Railroads of Arizona (2002) Includes abandoned lines and historical lines surveys. Arizona Railway Museum; Robertson, Donald B. (1986). Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History – The Desert States: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers. ISBN 0-87004-305-6.
The discovery of water at Tombstone allowed the erection of mill sites there rendering the San Pedro River mill sites superfluous; when the Contention Mine and the silver mines in Tombstone flooded in 1886 and 1887, after the 1887 Sonora earthquake, the mills were forced to shut down, and Contention City suffered a fatal blow. The population ...
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. The town was named for Chicago investor Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank who partially financed the railroad, and was the founder of the Grand Central Mining Company, which had an interest in ...
The Tombstone Historic District had ill-defined boundaries when it was first designated in 1961. The landmarked area was generally agreed to include at least the area bounded by Toughnut, Fremont, 3rd and 6th Streets, but its precise limits were a subject of continuing debate through at least 1986.
Tombstone was a notorious mining town that flourished longer than most, from 1877 to 1929. [34] Silver was discovered in 1877, and by 1881 the town had a population of over 10,000. Western story tellers and Hollywood film makers made as much money in Tombstone as anyone, thanks to the arrival of Wyatt Earp and his brothers in 1879. [35]