15 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
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Boothill Graveyard
· 0.6 mi
Just north of Tombstone, Arizona at 408 Highway 80 lies Boothill Graveyard, the boomtown's original cemetery, founded in 1878 and holding at least 250 burials. It stopped taking new graves around 1883 and crumbled until…
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Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
· 0.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine being judged right here in the heart of the Wild West! This is the Tombstone Courthouse, built in 1882, when Tombstone was the bustling county seat of Cochise County. For years, this building housed everything…
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Tombstone, Arizona)
· 0.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Stand here by St. Paul's Episcopal Church and picture this: even in a town known for gunslingers and gambling, people yearned for a touch of civilization. In 1882, amidst the silver boom and the dusty streets of…
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Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
· 0.8 mi · Historical Marker
The silver mining boomtown where the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday fought the Clantons near the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881, the most famous gunfight in American history.
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O.K. Corral (building)
· 0.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Step back in time to the infamous O.K. Corral, where the legendary gunfight helped cement Tombstone's place in Wild West history. The O.K. Corral, short for Old Kindersley, was a livery and horse corral that operated…
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Tombstone Historic District
· 0.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine stepping back into the Wild West, right here in Tombstone. This is where the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral etched its place in history. On October 26th, 1881, a mere 60 seconds of gunfire erupted between…
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Tombstone AZ
· 0.8 mi · Things to Do
The town too tough to die. OK Corral gunfight reenactments daily. Wyatt Earp walked here.
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Sacred Heart Church (Tombstone, Arizona)
· 0.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine trying to bring peace to a town known for gunfights! That's what the founders of Sacred Heart Church were trying to do in Tombstone. In 1881, Tombstone was booming, but it was also a pretty lawless place. The…
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Tombstone, AZ
· 1.1 mi · Local history
Tombstone, Arizona, owes its existence to silver. Ed Schieffelin, prospecting in the late 1870s, was warned that all he’d find in the desolate hills was his own tombstone. Instead, he struck silver, and a boomtown was…
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Gleeson, AZ
· 8.7 mi · Wikipedia
This town's story began in the 1870s as a mining camp called Turquoise, named for the mineral that Native Americans had long worked in the area. The Turquoise post office came and went in the early 1890s. Then, a local…
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Murray Springs Clovis Site
· 12.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine standing here 11000 years ago, surrounded by mammoths! This is Murray Springs, one of the most important Clovis archaeological sites in North America. Around 11000 years Before Present, people of the Clovis…
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Kartchner Caverns State Park
· 17.8 mi · Historical Marker
A living limestone cave discovered in 1974 and kept secret for fourteen years to protect its pristine formations, now an Arizona state park.
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Dragoon Springs Stage Station Site
· 19.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb
This seemingly peaceful spot was once the scene of a brutal massacre that underscored the perils of frontier life. In 1858, Dragoon Springs Stage Station was attacked. The station keeper, his family, and several others…
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Fort Huachuca Museum
· 19.5 mi · Historical Marker
Established in 1877, Fort Huachuca was a key post in the Apache campaigns and the primary home of the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry, African American troops who served with distinction on the frontier.
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Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site
· 19.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine standing where hunters, thousands of years ago, brought down mammoths. This is the Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site, where archaeologists discovered evidence of a prehistoric hunt. Around 11000 to 12000 years ago,…