Prospector Ed Schieffelin was told he’d find his own “tombstone” when he set out to the Dragoon Mountains from Camp Huachuca to strike Silver in what is now known as the legendary town of Tombstone!
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Local mines in the 1880’s produced $40 to $85 million in silver bullion making the region the largest productive silver district in Arizona. Tombstone’s population grew from 100 to around 14,000 in less than seven years…
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Recognized residents Marshall Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday battled Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton in what is known as…
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… the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The feud began six months earlier when the McLaury Bros & Clayton killed a well-respected stagecoach driver and passenger in a botched silver bullion robbery…
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This parking lot is the ACTUAL location of the famous gunfight… It is located across from O.K. Corral, the original City Hall and C. S. Fly's photography studio on Fremont Street.
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The O.K. Corral is a working Livery that became associated with the famous gun battle after the 1957 film “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.”
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Tombstone City Hall has been in continuous service since 1882, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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Schieffelin Hall was built in 1881 by Albert Schieffelin, brother of Tombstone founder Ed Schieffelin, and William Harwood as a first class opera house, theater, recital hall, and a meeting place for Tombstone citizens.
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At this location in the 1890s, two Chinese were enjoying their opium when some youngsters came in and caused a ruckus. A Chinaman pulled a knife and swung, but missed and killed his friend instead.
In the 1950s, this property became a restaurant and later the theatre named the Bella Union. It was a huge success for locals but failed to draw the big stars…
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The Allen Street Inn is a former brothel in Tombstone’s Red Light District. This bed-and-breakfast has seen “soiled doves,” working girls, women of ill repute, and the ghost of a miner who died in a bawdy brawl behind the bordello… It is a popular spot for paranormal enthusiasts and the Travel Channel!
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1881 Old West Books welcomes visitors to the gravel old-time section of Allen Street…
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Tombstone receives about 450,000 tourist visitors each year, which equates to 300 tourists per each permanent resident…
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Big Nose Kate’s began in 1880 as the Grand Hotel. It was one of the state’s finest establishments, with each of the 16 bedrooms fitted with solid walnut furnishings and European artwork.
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The silver mines and stamping mills ran three shifts with miners being paid union wages of $4.00 per day working six 10-hour shifts per week. There were about 6,000 men working in Tombstone who spent their hard-earned cash on Allen Street, the major commercial center, open 24 hours a day.
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Red Buffalo Trading Company was the Campbell & Hatch Saloon and Billiard Parlor in 1881, where Morgan Earp was fatally shot months after the Gunfight at the O.K Corral…
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Why not throw-out a life-size cutout of John Wayne out there along Allen Street?…
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Ike Clanton's Haunted Hotel combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with a variety of fun special effects to appeal to everyone…
You can explore more of Arizona’s “Haunts” here: https://www.azhauntedhouses.com/halloween/ike-clantons-haunted-hotel-tombstone-az.html
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Ahhh, yes the notorious Bird Cage Theatre… https://tombstonebirdcage.com/
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The Bird Cage Theatre opened on Allen Street on December 25, 1881, offering the miners and Cowboys their kind of bawdy entertainment in contrast to Schieffelin Hall’s respectable arts and culture…
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The Birdcage mezzanine’s “catwalk” where the “working girls” lined up to present themselves for services to attendees who were mainly silver miners…
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Birdcage Theatre entrance. For business privacy, the staff politely asked that photographs were not taken in the theatre…
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In 1882, The New York Times reported that "the Bird Cage Theatre is the wildest, wickedest night spot between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast.”
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The Bird Cage hosted more “respectable” talent such as Lily Langtry, “The Jersey Lilly” who excited the male crowd so they would purchase the services of the working girls… The “respectable talent” then “socialized” with more “respectable folks” on north side of Allen Street.
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In the basement hang some actual period nude lithographs of some of regular working girls…
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A peak into one of the “private social rooms” in the basement where Wyatt Earp and his eventual wife "Sadie Earp” were said to have enjoyed themselves…
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Luke Short a famous dealer and gunfighter worked as a “Fargo Dealer” at the Bird Cage. His Wife Hettie Short next to him, with Nellie Cashman below, who raised money to build the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and did charitable work with the Sisters of St. Joseph in Tombstone…
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The original, and modern Marshals Office of Tombstone, in between the O.K. Corral and original City Hall.
For more info on Tombstone Arizona, visit here: https://tombstoneweb.com/
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