When it comes to historic towns in Arizona, few can rival the allure of Tombstone. Nestled in Cochise County, this city holds a special place in the annals of American history. Founded in the 1870s by a determined prospector, Tombstone was initially part of Pima County in The Arizona Territory, long before it achieved statehood. …
With a population of just under 5,000, Eagar is a town in Apache County, in North East Arizona close to the border with New Mexico. It is named after a family of homesteaders, the Eagars, who settled here towards the end of the 19th century. The town sits below the White Mountains and offers a …
Cave Creek is found in Arizona’s Maricopa County, just a short distance north of Phoenix. The town has a permanent population of around 5,000 but that is boosted in the main weeks of the tourism season because Cave Creek and nearby Carefree provide an excellent base for exploring the wider region. The location is the …
The settlement of Colorado City in Mohave County, Arizona, close to the border with Utah, is just over a century old. It is located at almost 5,000 feet and covers just 10 square miles, with a population of just under 5,000 largely Mormon inhabitants. Colorado City is the home of at least three fundamentalist sects. …
The market town of Wellingborough on the River Nene has a deep history, beginning with a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon settlement founded by the warlord Wændel, who gave the town his name. For much of the Medieval period the monks of Croyland Abbey held all the power in Wellingborough, and their monastic grange can still be seen …
Thatcher is a small town within the Safford Metropolitan Area in Graham County, Arizona. Located in the Upper Gila River Valley at an elevation of nearly 3,000 feet, Thatcher has a population approaching 5,000. The town was founded in 1881 by settlers who belonged to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Specifically, Christopher …
The tiny town of Mammoth is in Arizona’s Pinal County, and at the time of the last census had less than 1,500 residents. The town was founded in the 1870s, and was originally a camp that housed and fed the men who worked at the Mammoth Copper Mine that was the major economic driver of …
Walled by six chalk hills over the Salisbury Plain, Warminster is a market town much visited for the historic Longleat estate. Longleat mixes the family-friendly fun of one of the UK’s favourite safari parks with the splendour of an Elizabethan Prodigy House. The sheer size of the Longleat estate is extraordinary and under its mantle …
For a time at the dawn of the 19th century Trowbridge was dubbed the “Manchester of the West” for its booming textile industry. The woollen cloth trade in Trowbridge had been around since the Medieval period, but went into overdrive with industrialisation, to the point where there were 20 large scale mills here in the …
Carefree is a small city of around 3,000 people, located in Maricopa County in the state of Arizona. It was built in the mid-1950s by K.T. Palmer and his business associate Tom Darlington. The selling of land began in 1955, while the building process started in 1958. In order to avoid being annexed to Scottsdale, …