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Cascabel - Located on the San Pedro River, north of Benson, Arizona. Cascabel means "bell or rattle". Home to a growing
arts community there is an arts and crafts festival held every year in December.

Charleston - Charleston was located on the San Pedro River about 6 miles south of Fairbanks. The Tombstone Epitaph on
May 6, 1882, noted "Charleston has a very extensive trade with the surrounding country and Sonora. Its Mexican business is
daily becoming more important, and it will continue to increase until it reaches very large proportions. The town is well
regulated and free from turmoil. In fact, it is one of the most peaceful places we were ever in."

Courtland – copper discovered in the early 1890’s by Courtland Young, an owner of the Great Western Mining Company at
the south end of the Dragoon Mountains. The town grew very but by 2021, the ”mined out” town was abandoned.

Emery -The Boston and Arizona Mining company built a small mill about four miles north of Charleston to process the ore they
mined from Tombstone's Emerald Gulch, located in the Dragoon Mountains in 1881.
Fairbank - Founded in 1882 when the railroad established a station nearby to the J6 ranch.

Garces - located on the east side of the Huachuca mountains, just west of Hereford. Named after the Friar Francisco Garces,
a Spanish Catholic missionary priest, and first European to meet the Mojave Indians in 1775. The Mojaves journeyed with
Garces to the west coast in a route later known to the pioneers as the "Mojave Road".

Gleeson - The post office here opened in 1890 under the name Turquoise and closed in 1894. The site of Turquoise was
established by Indians who mined the gemstones in the area later to be called Turquoise Mountain. Tiffany & Company
acquired the mines in 1890.
Harshaw - Is a ghost town nearby to Cochise County in Santa Cruz County. The town was settled in the 1870s, in what was
then Arizona Territory. Founded as a mining community, Harshaw is named after the cattleman-turned-prospector David
Tecumseh Harshaw, who first successfully located silver in the area.
Middlemarch - Middlemarch mining camp was located in the middle pass of the Dragoon mountains about 6 miles southwest
of Pearce. Said to have been the "middle march" of the military in early days between Fort Bowie and Fort Huachuca.
Palmerlee - This town initially was a mining camp know as Reef and if you hike into the area, you will see a geological feature
that gave it this name. The towns name was then changed to Palmerlee

Pearce - The town of Pearce was established in 1984 by James Pearce, miner, and cattleman. After dismounting his horse,
he sat down and relaxed, idly picking up a rock and hitting it on a nearby rock ledge. It broke, and the break showed gold!
Thus, was born the Commonwealth mine, said to be one of the richest mines ever found in Arizona, producing over fifteen
million dollars in gold.

Reef - Named for a conspicuous reef of rock (Carr Reef), a series of quartzite cliffs running along the eastern side of the
Huachuca Mountains, a noted landmark.
Rucker - First known as Camp Supply, it was initially built to protect settlers in the area and house a mounted infantry unit.
The name was changed in 1878 after Lt. Rucker accidently drowned in a stream nearby. In July 1880, mules were stolen from
the stable by the McLaury brothers of Tombstone fame. This was one of the incidents that later led up to the famous "Gunfight
Near the O.K. Corral."
Sky Island - The term Sky Island, "mountain island in a desert sea", was popularized by nature writer Weldon Heald, a
resident of southeastern Arizona. The term salutes the beauty of the southwest.

Terrenate - Founded in 1742 and is located southwest of the Huachuca Mountains. Late in 1775 Santa Cruz de Terrenate
was relocated to the area of Fairbanks. This was one of a series of forts or as the Spanish called them "Presidios" that were
set up to guard the northern reaches of "New Spain". The presidios also contained missions as this was the second part of
their function.
Tombstone – The “town too tough to die” is the most famous of Arizona mining camps. Located in the Mule Mountains at an
elevation of 4,426 feet, like the Elevation of Red Hawk at the J6. The old courthouse has become a museum of Wild West
history and the whole town has been designated a national historic landmark.

Wanderlust - For my part, writes Robert Louis Stevenson in Travels with a Donkey, "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I
travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." Sounds like a case of wanderlust if we ever heard one. Those with
"wanderlust" don't necessarily need to go anywhere in particular; they just don't care to stay in one spot. The origin
of wanderlust is a very simple, "Wanderlust" is lust (or "desire") for wandering.