Cochise County Points of Interest

Bird Cage Theater, scene of riotous entertainment during the mining boom days. Tombstone, Arizona - Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Birdcage Theater

At the corner of Allen and Sixth Streets in Tombstone, Arizona, stands a squat, two-story adobe-and-brick building whose faded crimson sign still proclaims “BIRD CAGE…
Charleston, circa 1885 - Photograph by C. S Fly

Charleston Arizona

Charleston, Arizona, now a ghost town in Cochise County, was a short-lived but vibrant settlement in the Arizona Territory from the late 1870s to the…
Contention City, Arizona, circa 1880. The Contention Mill - twenty-five stamps and thirty men - was one of three stamp mills that reduced the silver ore from the Tombstone mines.

Contention City, Arizona

Contention City (also known simply as Contention) was a short-lived boomtown and ghost town in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona. Located along the banks of the…
A panorama of Courtland in 1909, facing east. West Coast Art Co. - Original publication: June 12, 1909, Los Angeles, California

Courtland, Arizona

Courtland is a classic example of an Arizona ghost town, born from the rapid boom-and-bust cycle typical of early 20th-century mining communities in the American…
Fairbank, c.1890, Ghost Towns of Arizona, by James E. and Barbara H. Sherman, page 54

Fairbank Arizona

Fairbank is a well-preserved ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, situated along the banks of the San Pedro River in the San Pedro Riparian National…
The Seal of Cochise County, Arizona

Galeyville Arizona

Galeyville, Arizona, was a short-lived silver mining boomtown in the Chiricahua Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona, during the early 1880s. It exemplifies the rapid rise…
Gleeson's Main Street in 1917. Original publication: 1917 Gleeson, Arizona

Gleeson Arizona

Gleeson is a classic semi-ghost town in southeastern Cochise County, Arizona, nestled on the southern slopes of the Dragoon Mountains at an elevation of approximately…
Millville, sister town to Charleston located just across the San Pedro River, circa 1880

Millville Arizona

Millville, Arizona, is a ghost town in Cochise County, located along the San Pedro River, approximately nine miles southwest of Tombstone. Established in the late…

Paradise Arizona

Paradise, Arizona, is a small ghost town located in the Chiricahua Mountains of Cochise County, southeastern Arizona, within what is now the Coronado National Forest.…
Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 photographed by C. S. Fly. An ore wagon at the center of the image is pulled by 15 or 16 mules leaving town for one of the mines or on the way to a mill. The town had a population of about 4,000 that year with 600 dwellings and two church buildings. There were 650 men working in the nearby mines. The Tough Nut hoisting works are in the right foreground. The firehouse is behind the ore wagons, with the Russ House hotel just to the left of it. The dark, tall building above the Russ House is the Grand Hotel, and the top of Schieffelin Hall (1881) is visible to the right.

Tombstone Arizona

Tombstone Arizona is a historical point of interest, and the location of the O K Corral Gunfight, located in Cochise County, Arizona. The history and…