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Community of Charleston

Cochise County · At the west side of the crossing of the San Pedro River on the road between Tombstone and Fort Huachuca. · location approximate

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The Community of CHARLESTON Mills on the east bank of the San Pedro River and a town on the west bank, served the Tombstone mines during the brief boom period from 1879-1886. The area was a collecting point for riff-raff and outlaws thrown out of Tombstone. Jim Burnett, justice of the peace, assessed exhorbitant fines, kept all collections for himself, and threatened to shoot anybody who appealed sentences.

Named in the Arizona Department of Transportation's 1997 list of markers standing in its right of way. That 1997 list covers only state highway right of way, so it does not reach markers on city streets, on tribal land, or in state and national parks.

1958 text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people. The book proposed 100 markers for Arizona's highways and records 14 as cast when it went to press.

Arizona still marks its history under the same law: the State Historical Advisory Commission approves a marker, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records certifies that its text is authentic and historically correct, and the Arizona Department of Transportation erects and maintains the markers on state highway right-of-way. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Historical Markers in Arizona, Vols. I-II (Arizona Development Board, 1958), text by Bert Fireman

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