Vulture Peak

Address: 7 miles south of Wickenburg
Phone: 928-684-5479

DIRECTIONS - From Wickenburg, proceed West on Highway 60 and turn left on Vulture Mine Road. About 3.5 miles beyond the turn, Vulture Peak Road comes in on your left, do not take Vulture Peak Road as it dead ends on the east side of Vulture Peal. Continue on Vulture Mine Road another 32. iles - look for the windmill on the right after a long curve to the right - turn left onto the dirt road almost opposite the windmill. Proceed as far as you feel confortable in your vehicle. For two-wheel drive cars this will be about 3/4 of a mile. Park and walk or hike anywhere in this area. The land is publicly owned and therefore open to the public. Private property will be posted with no trespassing signs.

Old Post Office

The Old Brick Post Office was built in 1930 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Before the time of the boardwalks, a single window served the people arriving on horseback to get their mail. This may have been the forerunner of the "drive - up window!"

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E. Bowman, PRCA Champ

Everett Bowman made Wickenburg his home after a highlighted career as a World Champion, All-Around Cowboy. Born in Hope, New Mexico in July, 1899, Everett Bowman was World Champion in 1935 - 1937; champion steer wrestler in 1930, 1935 and 1938; champion steer roper in 1927;

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Hassayampa Building

The Venetta Hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905 specifically to serve overnight railroad passengers and early day tourists to the Wickenburg area and Castle Hot Springs. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith contracted one of Arizona'

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Garcia School

This red brick schoolhouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905, replacing the wooden school on this land. "Little remains of the old one-room schoolhouses built of logs, adobe, frame, or brick which proliferated across Arizona in the late 1800s.

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Santa Fe Depot

The Santa Fe Depot at Wickenburg, Arizona, was the last of the original wooden depots on the Santa Fe Railroad Line by the 1920s, when Santa Fe decided the "old wooden depot"

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