LaGuardia’s name is honored throughout the world, with parks, streets, and buildings named after him. Prescott is no exception.
Fiorello LaGuardia, New York mayor and political giant, traced his roots to Prescott and honored that heritage with several memorable trips.
This is a true story about an automobile—a Studebaker SA25 “machine” and the people who took it on an approximately 1,000 mile tour of Arizona in 1913.
Did you know that the recognizable “P” on Prescott’s Badger Mountain has been there for 100 years?
At 9 p.m. on February 12, 1875, gunshots rang out on Whiskey Row and killed two stage line employees—what happened?
The first settlers of the Arizona Territory in the 1860s were seeking gold, as was Albert Noyes. However, his career soon took a new direction…
“The Tiger is Dying!” The tiger, an illustration on the back of faro cards, was under attack from Arizona’s new anti-gambling law. Would it survive?
One of the graves in the Yavapai Cemetery Association’s “Adopt a Grave” program belongs to Jesse Baxter—a sad casualty of Prescott’s trolley days.
On February 20, 2022, the Elks Opera House in Prescott turned 117 years old—perhaps making it the oldest operating theater in the Southwest.
On December 16, 1949, Bonanza Air Line’s first flight landed in Prescott—a total of three planes carrying 83 passengers, including the governor of Nevada.
