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Bisbee, looking east, 1909 Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town; topographical map from 1902. Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine. The town was the site of the Bisbee Riot in 1919.
This is a list of historic properties in Bisbee, Arizona, which includes a photographic gallery of some of the town's historic structures.The majority of these structures are located in the Bisbee Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1980, reference #80004487.
The Bisbee Historic District is a historic district located in Bisbee, Arizona, and has all the essential features of a prosperous, early twentieth century mining town. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [ 2 ]
Aerial photo of Bisbee, Arizona, showing how town developed around land contours Bisbee's development, like many western mining towns, was heavily influenced by local mining operations. The genesis of the town was the prospectors' camp, which was located near the entrance to the Copper Queen Mine and its adjacent smelter, to the west of the ...
The Bisbee massacre (a.k.a. the Bisbee murders or Bisbee raid) occurred in Bisbee, Arizona, on December 8, 1883, when six outlaws who were part of the Cochise County Cowboys robbed a general store. Believing the general store's safe contained a mining payroll of $7,000, they timed the robbery incorrectly and were only able to steal between $800 ...
The Copper Queen Mine was a copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. Its development led to the growth of the surrounding town of Bisbee in the 1880s. Its orebody ran 23% copper, an extraordinarily high grade. [2] It was acquired by Phelps Dodge in 1885. In the early 1900s, this was the most productive copper mine in Arizona. [3]
The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum is a local history museum at 5 Copper Queen Plaza in Bisbee, Arizona.It is located in the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark for the importance of the Phelps Dodge Corporation's role in the growth and development of the American Southwest.
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