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
Let’s hit the poad!!
Kinda reminds me of Corning, NY.
Also a quaint little town.
I suggest, "Hit the Poad, Jack", by Ray Charles.
Or, perhaps, "On the Poad Again", by Pothead Willie.
Kinda looks like Georgetown, Colorado.
Just up the poad from me.
This thread needs an offical thread = This thread needs an official theme song.
ROAD TRIP! Anyone?
Last time I was there, it had turned into an artsy-fartsy place.
Pic reminds me a little of any number of little towns along Hwy 49 in CA Gold Country. Turn a corner and you’re in Sutter Creek, or Jackson, or Amador City. We love small towns.
Is a POAD trip for POADs only (People Of African Descent)?
.... One of my favorite pass times has always been taking a Poad Trip.
In the movie “LA Confidential”, the character played by Kim Basinger is originally from Bisbee.
Hit the poad like a stuned beeber, and your faith in Hugh Manatee will be renewed.
—yes—and any discussion with locals indicated that people and drug smuggling were the chief “industries”—
Why don’t we do it in the poad ?
The eternal question.
I lived down the poad in Douglas. Bisbee was a nice place to visit. The Copper Queen Mine Tour is worth the admission!The pit mines in the middle of town are pretty neat too. Lots to do in the area.
Don’t you just hate it when you’re trying to make fun of someone and it totally backfires?
I guess that’s what they mean by getting hung by your own petard, or how the coyote feels vs the roadrunner.
Ajo #1?
I haven’t been there in a few years, but last time I was there it was a pit.
Jerome’s far better.
You want one of our State Lizards?
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