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This is a list of historic properties in Tombstone, Arizona, which includes a photographic gallery of some of the remaining historic structures.The majority of these structures are in the Tombstone Historic District which was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
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.
Tombstone Historic District is a historic district in Tombstone, Arizona that is significant for its association with the struggle between lawlessness and civility in frontier towns of the wild west, and for its history as a boom-and-bust mining center.
Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park is a state park of Arizona in the United States.Located in Tombstone, the park preserves the original Cochise County courthouse.The two-story building, constructed in 1882 in the Victorian style, is laid out in the shape of a cross and once contained various county offices, including those of the sheriff, recorder, treasurer, and the Board of ...
Boothill Graveyard is a small graveyard of at least 250 interments located in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. [2] Also known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others.
The building is a contributing property to the Tombstone Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. [10] Al Schieffelin's great-niece Mary Schieffelin Brady reopened the hall in 1964 [11] and it remains an attraction in Tombstone. It is the largest standing adobe structure in the ...
The O.K. Corral (Old Kindersley [2]) was a livery and horse corral from 1879 to about 1888 in the mining boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in the southwestern United States near the border with Mexico.
The Bird Cage Theatre was a theater in Tombstone, Arizona, United States. [1] It operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894. When the silver mines closed, the theatre was also closed in 1892. It was leased as a coffee shop starting in 1934.