Posted on 05/13/2017 7:54:30 AM PDT by SandRat
BISBEE — Bisbee has joined three southern Arizona communities who ranked high in USA Today's “Best Small Towns in the Southwest.” Bisbee ranked second, behind Ajo, respectively.
USA Today 10Best editors compiled a list of 70 towns with populations less than 10,000, and narrowed those down to 20 for the vote. According to 10best.com, nominees were "travel-worthy for their beauty, culture, shopping, dining, entertainment and lodging options.”
Bisbee has a population of about 5,500 and is known for its affluent art community and preserved historic architectural heritage.
Last year, Bisbee was chosen by Sunset Magazine editors as the “Best Small Town in the West to Live” and USA Today readers voted Bisbee as the “Best Historic Small Town in America.”
The city of Bisbee was established around 1877 when a detail of U.S. Army scouts and cavalrymen were sent to the Mule Mountains to search for renegade Apaches. It resulted with signs of mineralization indicating the presence of lead, copper and possibly silver discovered by civilian tracker Jack Dunn.
Signs of the once-mining boom are still present in Bisbee with several pits, including the Lavender Pit along west Highway 80.
Did You Know?
Every year in October the city hosts a 5K race named the “Bisbee 1000” because incorporated in the 5K course are 1,000 stairs. It is billed as the “5K that feels like a 10K”.
The town was named after Judge DeWitt Bisbee, a financial banker of the Copper Queen Mine. He never visited the town.
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was not only a pivotal event in Arizona's history, but one that had an effect on labor activities throughout the country. The notorious anti-labor crime involved the illegal kidnapping and deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 members of a deputized posse on July 12, 1917. This year marks its 100th anniversary.
Source: discoverbisbee.com and 3funfacts.blogspot.com
Yes!
Stupid auto-correct needs a few upgrades, if you aks me.
Just wait until it’s 117F. It won’t be so quaint.
Yep, sorta like Hugh and series.
Arizona is All right in my book!
Warts and all, keeps the Wimps away.
I hope you stopped in Prescott.
Original Bar with a spitter still running under your feet!
1994 anyway.
We went down the back road through Skull valley, we were way to big for the main highway.
I know those back roads. 15yr resident. 1985-2000.
I managed to get to every county.
I wouldn’t dare today. Places like Harshaw and Washington Camp would be dangerous.
I camped on the Rim quite a bit at Horseshoe Vista off the Gen. Crook trail.
Oh well, I’m back east now. Arizona is a fascinating state.
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