The Chautauqua Movement, a popular type of distance education in the 1800s, gave women in Prescott a chance to gain the equivalent of a college education.
“There’s always something to do in the Archives.” This statement floats between staff and volunteers at the ever-busy Research Center. One ongoing project, among others, is the cataloging of Sharlot Hall’s personal library.
The Yavpé, ancestors of the modern-day Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, relied on local supplies for their food. What did that include?
Today we take electricity for granted. Just flip a switch, right? Not in 1908 Arizona, when constructing a power plant involved burros to haul equipment.
Gus Barth, railroad man in early Prescott, apparently had nine lives as his career was often a literal trainwreck.
Sharlot Mabridth Hall lived a life of accomplishment…and much of her inspiration came from the surrounding landscape and her life as a ranch woman.
Beginning with cooperative stock roundups involving local ranches, the birth of the rodeo in the Prescott area has a colorful story.
A Prescott railyard explosions in 1898 rained chunks of iron on the small town. There were several close calls…
August 17, 1898: A massive explosion at Prescott’s railyard kills two men and sends a four-ton boiler flying 1200 feet. How did the accident happen?
Today aerial tramways let us soar above the earth in cable cars or chairlifts. But what did they look like in early Arizona?
