bisbee real estate: Beautiful Bisbee, Arizona - Copper and History
- 07/13/11 07:47 AM
About 90 miles to the southeast of Tucson is a wonderful little town called Bisbee, Arizona. The area was discovered in 1877 by a reconnaissance detail on the search for Apaches in the Mule Mountains. A tracker with the detail noticed a lot of mineralization in the area - copper, silver and lead - and knew that he'd probably struck it rich. He filed claims to mine the land and, from that, Bisbee was born and became known as the The Queen of the Copper Camps.
Copper and other minerals were in great supply until the mid 1970's when production … (0 comments)
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About 90 miles to the southeast of Tucson is a wonderful little town called Bisbee, Arizona. The area was discovered in 1877 by a reconnaissance detail on the search for Apaches in the Mule Mountains. A tracker with the detail noticed a lot of mineralization in the area - copper, silver and lead - and knew that he'd probably struck it rich. He filed claims to mine the land and, from that, Bisbee was born and became known as the The Queen of the Copper Camps.
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