Tombstone, Arizona (Photos)

[jadewik]

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I decided to keep the Boot Hill thread exclusively Boot Hill-- I do have new morning photos... some of you will be happy to know they've gone back to using the wooden grave markers as opposed to the metal ones.

Here are some photos of Allen Street and the Schefflin monument, per request. I did go on a ghost walk of Tombstone, so I have a few ghost stories to share... but that can all wait for another day.

These photos were taken between 11am and 3pm on Monday, February 15, 2010. The new boot hill photos were taken between 10:30am and 11am the same day. (If I get around to sharing 'em.)

Keep in mind I took over 150 photos... these are just a selected few.

Below: Looking east on Allen Street at the corner of Allen Street and 3rd Street. On the NE corner is the Tombstone City Park, which is directly west of the OK Corral. While the main entrance to the OK Corral happens to be on Allen Street, the actual gunfight occurred on Fremont Street-- which, at that time, was the main entrance to the corral.



Below: Further east-- just past the corner of Allen Street and 4th Street on the north side of the road you can find the location of Campbell & Hatch Billiards and Saloon (the building one left of the Red Building with the Green Sign). This is the location where, on March 18, 1882 Morgan Earp was shot and died.



Below: Looking easterly at the north side of Allen Street at the corner of 5th Street. On the NW corner is a red building-- the location of The Crystal Palace. Home of Tombstone's only doctor who had an upstairs office right beside the Sheriff's-- Morgan Earp's office. On the NE corner, you can see the location of the Oriental Saloon. There have been several deaths at the cross streets here. Most notably the location of Billy Claiborne's death by "Buckskin" Frank Leslie on November 14, 1882 and the location where Luke Short killed Charlie Storms on February 25, 1881.



Below: So I'm not neglecting the south side of the road in this location... here's a shot looking west along Allen Street from the east side of 5th street. The SE corner of this street is the location of the restaurant called "The Longhorn".... which is where my husband and I ate lunch. MmMmM. The steak sammich is d'licious.



... and because I can only post 5-photos at a time and I'm feeling super-lazy tonight....

Below: Per request, I found Ed Schefflin's grave marker. If you don't know who Ed is and you're a Tombstone, AZ buff... you're fired. Ed is the one who first struck silver and founded Tombstone. His grave is on Monument Drive (which is the name of Allen Street 2-miles west of town). It's a short drive along a rocky, dirt road to get there... and there are all sorts of yellow warning signs about the grading of the road along the way as the county doesn't do any up-keep to this dirt road.

In his will, Ed requested he be buried in his prospector's garb with canteen and pick by his side near the site of his first camp. The grave marker was to be a simple stone cairn. The citizens of Tombstone honored all of Ed's requests save one...

You can see monument marker off in the distance... because it's a 25-foot tall marker. Don't believe me? I had my husband take this photo of me beside Ed's stone cairn.

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[scarygirl67]

Thank you SO much for posting these Jadewik! They are REALLY good photos! Grandpa told me all about old Ed...I had a picture that I lost of this, so it means so much that you remembered to get it!

[Andrasta]

That big thing you're holding up is for one lil ol' dude???

[jadewik]

Scary-
I have more photos of Ed's Cairn-- ones without people in 'em. I can send 'em to you or what-not if you want.

Andraste-
Yup. All that for one dude.... and all he did was find silver in the desert because he wasn't afraid to die (so says the informative sign at the location).

If you're looking to scale the photo, I'm just shy of 6-feet in height... something around 175 cm for those of you who don't use SI units.

[scarygirl67]

I would really appreciate that Jadewik...Tombstone is one place I have got to see if I'm able to get to Arizona....I would love to visit Grandpa and look at some of these places that I've only seen in pictures.