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May 24
Prescott’s Fourth Friday Art Walk
Various locations
800-266-7534

Fourth Friday Art Walk

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May 25 – 27
Phippen Museum
Western Art Show and Sale
4701 State Highway 89N
928-778-1385
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VISIT

www.prescott.org

FOR INFOMATION

Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce

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Sharlot Hall Museum
415 West Gurley Street

Sharlot Hall Museum is named after its founder, Sharlot Mabridth Hall (1870-1943), who became well known as a poet, activist, politician, and Arizona’s first territorial historian. Sharlot Hall was one of the West’s most remarkable women. As early as 1907, Ms. Hall saw the need to save Arizona’s history and plan a museum.
www.sharlot.org

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The towns of Prescott Valley and Chino Valley , Dewey-Humboldt and Prescott, together comprise what is known as the “Quad-City” area. Prescott is the center of the Prescott Metropolitan Area. The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe reservation is located adjacent to and partially within the borders of Prescott.

Arizona Territorial Governor John Noble Goodwin selected the original site of Prescott following his first tour of the new territory. Goodwin replaced Governor John A. Gurley, appointed by Abraham Lincoln, who died before taking office. Downtown streets in Prescott are named in honor of each of them.

Prescott served as capital of Arizona Territory until November 1, 1867, when the capital was moved to Tucson. The capital was returned to Prescott in 1877 and was moved to Phoenix on February 4, 1889.
The Sharlot Hall Museum contains Prescott’s territorial history, and the Smoki and Phippen museums have local collections. Whiskey Row in downtown Prescott has many historic buildings, including The Palace, Arizona’s oldest restaurant and bar, and many other buildings that have been converted to boutiques, art galleries, bookstores, and restaurants. The city was named after author William H. Prescott, whose writings were popular during the Civil War.
Prescott also has a place in western folklore with the fact that Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp’s older brother lived in Prescott in 1879 and told him of the boom town in Tombstone, Arizona. It is also rumored that Doc Holliday spent some time in Prescott just before heading to Tombstone.

The Palace Bar opened in September 1877.
Although Whiskey Row was known for its many saloons,
The Palace was much more than a bar.”
Men came in to check for notices of work available
and it served as an election central for several area
political races. Mineral claims were bought and sold there.
The Palace is still the oldest frontier bar in Arizona
and the most well-known and historic restaurant and
saloon in the state.

Granite Dells
Massive boulders of ancient rock have
weathered into delicately balanced forms and fanciful shapes,
reflected in the surface of Watson Lake.
Ruins and artifacts can be found where Native Americans used to live.
The Dells offers boating, picnicking, and hiking.
Rock climbers can take the challenge of granite formations.
Watson Lake Park is four miles north of town on AZ 89.

Legend of the Granite Dells
In the 1800s, a group of prospectors were returning from the Big Sandy River to Prescott with gold dust and nuggets hidden in several canvas bags. They took a water break at Granite Dells, about four miles north of Prescott, they were attacked by Indians. The prospectors buried the gold near the spring as the attack took place. All but one of the prospectors were killed by the Indians. The lone survivor returned to the site with a search party on several occasions. However, they never found the buried gold. Perhaps the Indians dug up the treasure and reburied it somewhere else in the same area. The treasure remains somewhere in the Granite Dells waiting for discovery.
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Mile-High Trail System
The Mile-High Trail System contains approximately 28 miles of trails including Rails-to-Trails projects along the former Santa Fe Railroad, the Prescott Circle Trail System, and the Greenways Trails System. The Prescott Circle Trail is a network of trails that continues to expand, and which will eventually encircle all of Prescott. The Greenways Trails are urban trails along Granite and Miller Creeks that run through downtown Prescott.

The towns of Prescott Valley (7 miles east) and Chino Valley (16 miles north), Dewey-Humboldt (13 miles east) and Prescott, together comprise what is locally known as the “Quad-City” area.
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The Phippen Museum
is located at 4701 Hwy 89 N, just minutes north of historic downtown Prescott, Arizona. General admission is $7 for adults, $6 for AAA members, $5 for students with ID, and free to museum members and children 12 and under. For more information, please contact the museum at 928.778.1385, or visit their website at www.phippenartmuseum.org.

www.phippenartmuseum.org
Phippen Museum’s 39th Annual Western Art Show & Sale
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