Tombstone is located in Cochise County, Arizona.
Ed Schieffelin found it in the summer of 1877 in what was then known as Arizona Territory. He came across it when he found a vein of very rich silver ore in a Plateau named Goose Flats. When he filed his mining claim he called it "The Tombstone."
The town of Tombstone was founded in 1879 and soon became a boomtown. Within a few years, the population increased immensely. It became very widely known, and popular.
Because Tombstone was in a desert, a company decided to build a pipeline to supply the town with water. Hardly after it was built, the silver mine's struck water.. Once the mine's failed, and the large supply of water flooded the town, many people deserted that community, and the population declined rapidly.
Tombstone houses the most famous graveyard of the old west, known as Boot Hill. Many people buried there died from disease, and violence, from the town's early years.
The historic gunfight at O.K. Corral is now preserved, and walled off, and it costs money to get in. But because many of the gun fights happened outside on the streets, you can go and view the death scenes, free of charge.
The largest rosebush in the world was also planted in Tombstone in 1885. It still grows today, wearing a 12 foot circumference trunk, and 8,000 square feet of the roof of an in.
The town is now a very popular tourist sight, and is supplied with shows to reminicse on the town's wild-west image, and wild days. Helldorado Day's is a festival that is held on the third week of every October. It consists of wild gunfights, fashion shows, street entertainment, and even a carnival.
Unfortunately, since the town is now almost completely dedicated to tourists, it has now "threatened the town's designation as a National Historic Landmark District, a designation it earned in 1961 as 'one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged town of the 1870s and '80s.'"
Ed Schieffelin found it in the summer of 1877 in what was then known as Arizona Territory. He came across it when he found a vein of very rich silver ore in a Plateau named Goose Flats. When he filed his mining claim he called it "The Tombstone."
The town of Tombstone was founded in 1879 and soon became a boomtown. Within a few years, the population increased immensely. It became very widely known, and popular.
Because Tombstone was in a desert, a company decided to build a pipeline to supply the town with water. Hardly after it was built, the silver mine's struck water.. Once the mine's failed, and the large supply of water flooded the town, many people deserted that community, and the population declined rapidly.
Tombstone houses the most famous graveyard of the old west, known as Boot Hill. Many people buried there died from disease, and violence, from the town's early years.
The historic gunfight at O.K. Corral is now preserved, and walled off, and it costs money to get in. But because many of the gun fights happened outside on the streets, you can go and view the death scenes, free of charge.
The largest rosebush in the world was also planted in Tombstone in 1885. It still grows today, wearing a 12 foot circumference trunk, and 8,000 square feet of the roof of an in.
The town is now a very popular tourist sight, and is supplied with shows to reminicse on the town's wild-west image, and wild days. Helldorado Day's is a festival that is held on the third week of every October. It consists of wild gunfights, fashion shows, street entertainment, and even a carnival.
Unfortunately, since the town is now almost completely dedicated to tourists, it has now "threatened the town's designation as a National Historic Landmark District, a designation it earned in 1961 as 'one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged town of the 1870s and '80s.'"
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