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  Bisbee, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bisbee is a city located in Cochise County, Arizona, USA, 82 miles (132 km) southeast of Tucson.
Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine.
In 1929, the county seat was moved from Tombstone, Arizona to Bisbee, where it remains.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bisbee,_Arizona   (1046 words)

  
 Bisbee Arizona
Bisbee was the acknowledged "Queen of the Copper Camps".
With a mining life of almost a century and a peak population of 35'000, Bisbee attained a permanence rare among mining towns.
By 1975 Bisbee was just another place that had joined the long list of former mining camps on their way to obscurity.
www.ghosttowngallery.com /htme/bisbee.htm   (672 words)

  
 City of Bisbee, Arizona Online
The Cochise County seat was relocated from Tombstone to Bisbee in 1929.
During almost a century of mining, 8 billion pounds of copper, 102 million ounces of silver and 2.8 million ounces of gold along with millions of pounds of zinc, lead and manganese were produced.
The Bisbee of today is a well-known artist's community whose architectural and historic heritage has been preserved.
www.cityofbisbee.com /bisb_history.html   (385 words)

  
 Bisbee Arizona - City of Bisbee Arizona
Bisbee is a little over an hour southeast of Tucson and the drive is beautiful.
Bisbee is the county seat for Cochise County.
Bisbee is now a thriving community with gourmet restaurants, coffee houses, art galleries, book stores and specialty shops.
www.thepepper.com /tucson_bisbee_arizona.html   (419 words)

  
 Ghost hunt of the Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee Arizona
The Arizona territory was still a decade from statehood and Apache raiding parties were a menace to stagecoach travelers.
Soon after Bisbee became a town, the Copper Queen Hotel came about as a place for dignitaries and weary miners to rest their hats.
Bisbee’s waltz with copper thrived throughout the 1920s and even hung on through the 1970s when the mines closed down.
www.sgha.net /az/bisbee/copper.html   (929 words)

  
 Bisbee, Arizona (AZ), Pictures
The seat of Cochise County, Bisbee is located about 40 km (about 25 mi) south of Tombstone and about 11 km (about 7 mi) north of the Mexican border.
Bisbee became an important copper mining town in the late 1800s.
Bisbee's Copper Queen mine, claimed in 1878, eventually became the richest copper mine in Arizona history.
www.greatestcities.com /North_America/USA/Arizona_AZ/Bisbee_city.html   (293 words)

  
 Bisbee Arizona Real Estate
Bisbee is a historic old west town located approximately 90 miles southeast of Tucson.
Once an Old West mining camp, Bisbee has proved to be one of the richest mineral sites in the world, producing nearly three million ounces of gold and more than eight billion pounds of copper, not to mention the silver, lead and zinc that came from the Mountains surrounding the land.
The Bisbee School District serves the residents of Bisbee, AZ and the surrounding rural areas.
www.bobhakesrealestate.com /bisbee.htm   (432 words)

  
 Bisbee Grand Hotel, Bisbee, AZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Historic Bisbee, Arizona is located 90 miles southeast of Tucson in the heart of the picturesque Mule Mountains.
Founded in 1880, Bisbee proved to be the location of one of the richest mineral deposits in the world.
At one time, Bisbee had a population of 20,000 and was the largest city between St. Louis and San Francisco.
www.bisbeegrandhotel.com /html/bisbee.html   (211 words)

  
 Sunset: Queen of the desert: artist. Beekeeper. In Bisbee, Arizona, you can be whatever you want to be
Bisbee's sculptural centerpiece is a 1935 socialist-realist statue of a bare-chested miner with Superman pecs and an expression of world-dominating confidence.
Tourists who stumbled across Bisbee in the '70s and '80s might've assumed it was full of bad plumbers, as well as bad carpenters, bad painters, and bad pothole repairers.
Last year she painted a haunting mural bursting with dream images--a lighthouse, a mermaid, a horse on a moonlit hill, a woman on a balcony--on a wall of the Jonquil Motel, a modest seven-unit motor court dating from the '50s.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_4_214/ai_n13499891   (1452 words)

  
 About Bisbee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The community was founded in 1880 and named after Judge DeWitt Bisbee, a financial backer of the Copper Queen Mine.
This Old West mining camp proved to be one of the richest mineral sites in the world, producing nearly three million ounces of gold and more than eight billion pounds of copper, not to mention the silver, lead and zinc that came from these rich Mule Mountains.
Bisbee has since evolved into an attractive artist colony and retirement community emphasizing monthly special events and tourism.
www.bisbeearizona.com /www/bisbee/index.php   (293 words)

  
 City of Bisbee Light Pollution Code   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
That if any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of the Ordinance or any part hereof is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion hereof.
The use of mercury vapor light fixtures is prohibited in the State of Arizona after January 1, 2011.
Outdoor fighting on facilities and lands owned and operated or protected by the United States Government, the State of Arizona, Cochise County, or the City of Bisbee are exempt by law from all requirements of this section.
c3po.cochise.cc.az.us /astro/pollution05p.htm   (951 words)

  
 Arizona
AZ-3 Calcite with Aurichalcite inclusions - Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona $35; Portions of this calcite specimen are tinted light blue due to inclusions of aurichalcite.
For Arizona this is an outstanding garnet specimen.
AZ-25 Azurite and Malachite - Cole Shaft, Bisbee, Arizona; One of the combos that made Bisbee a premier specimen locale, choice azurite crystals are in association with malachite balls.
www.kcminerals.com /arizona.htm   (1091 words)

  
 About Bisbee, Arizona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Arizona, Bisbee looks more like an alpine village than what one might expect to find in the stretch of desert between Tucson and Mexico.
Today, Bisbee is a renown artist colony that boasts the famed talents of hundreds of writers, actors, poets, jewelers, sculptors, craftspeople, and musicians.
Bisbee’s sloping hillsides are intimately peppered with historic homes creating a cozy, picturesque village of days gone by.
www.bisbeecoffee.com /iframe_bisbee.html   (432 words)

  
 Bisbee Deportation of 1917
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States.
This site is a research-based collection of primary and secondary sources for the study of the deportation of over 1,000 striking miners from Bisbee on 12 July, 1917.
Materials include I.W.W. publications, personal recollections, newspaper articles, court records, government reports, correspondence, and journal articles that are part of the collections of three libraries: The University of Arizona Library, the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, Arizona, and the Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona.
www.library.arizona.edu /exhibits/bisbee   (134 words)

  
 bisbee arizona
BISBEE - Arizona Highway 90 west of Bisbee is not expected to reopen until noon Friday because it was taking longer than expected to burn off propane gas from...
BISBEE, Ariz. Another glitch has developed in the process of burning off propane from a wrecked tanker in southeastern Arizona.
BISBEE, Ariz. A company that cans and processes vegetables at a facility in the southern Arizona community of McNeal has been sued by the state for violating...
www.freesearcharticles.com /articles/arizona/bisbee_arizona.html   (209 words)

  
 Bisbee, Arizona
Bisbee was an Old West mining camp that proved to be one of the richest mineral sites in the world, producing nearly three million ounces of gold and more than eight billion pounds of copper, not to mention the silver, lead and zinc that came from the Mule Mountains.
Bisbee offers its visitors many art galleries, gourmet restaurants, coffee houses, bookstores and specialty shops, as well as charming restored neighborhoods of Victorian and European-style homes perched on the hillsides.
Other activities in Bisbee include the Queen Mine Tour, a trip down into the now inactive copper mine; a visit at the Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum (a must for history buffs); the historic Muheim House, an outstanding example of 19th century architecture and elegance; and the Lavender Pit Open Mine.
www.eatstayplay.com /html/AZ/p1469.html   (234 words)

  
 Bisbee, Arizona AZ, city profile (Cochise County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Arizona > All counties > Cochise County > Bisbee
Bisbee is a city in Cochise County, in the Sierra Vista-Douglas metro area.
Bisbee is in the foothills of the Mule Mountains
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=11136   (549 words)

  
 Index of Bisbee, Arizona stories by Nancy Weaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Great Bisbee chefs, Bisbee authors and artists, back on the lizard ranch, around the world on a child's drawing, a low-tech botanical medicine school, and the week William Shatner smuggled an alien through town.
Bisbee, Arizona has some legendary plumbing tales to tell.
Laments on the public use of glorious Kartchner Caverns and Bowie, Arizona's Hot Wells Dunes and a trippy comparison of Bisbee and San Francisco.
www.sliceobisbee.com /UQuirkyBisIndex.html   (354 words)

  
 Bisbee, Arizona, USA
Bisbee was founded in 1880 and became a booming mining town of 20,000 by 1900.
Bisbee is home to many artists, whose studios you can visit.
Bisbee's charm comes more from its creative spirit than from its appearance.
www.quaintplaces.com /arizona/bisbee_az_print.htm   (225 words)

  
 Bisbee Arizona - Arizona Travel Guide, Destinations Southern Arizona, Bisbee
Founded in the 1800’s as a mining town, Bisbee is now home to a unique blend of historical and artistic culture.
Bisbee’s Queen Mine was one of the wealthiest copper mines in history.
Bisbee’s charming streets are packed with art galleries, antique shops, gourmet restaurants, coffee houses, bookstores and specialty shops.
www.guideaz.com /destinations/bisbee/bisbee.html   (344 words)

  
 Bisbee Grand Hotel, Bisbee, AZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bisbee Grand Hotel, Bisbee, AZ 61 Main St. Bisbee, Arizona 85603
Bill Thomas, in Bisbee on a two day visit, toured the closed hotel for fun, and fell in love with it and exchanged twenty years of banking and tennis coaching for the opportunity to own and operate this historic Bisbee landmark.
Come to Bisbee and leave your modern day pressures behind as you step into this historic mining town.
www.bisbeegrandhotel.com   (196 words)

  
 The Bisbee Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With a history deserving of National Landmark status, it's only fitting that Bisbee's past be captured and reflected in a museum like no other.
Once known as The Queen of the Copper Camps, Bisbee is nestled among the Mule Mountains, an area world renowned for the diversity of its minerals and the wealth of its copper.
Although its mines closed in the 1970s, this small town's legacy has been preserved not only in its architecture and its mining landscape, but in a museum that has since welcomed, educated and entertained more than a half-million visitors.
www.bisbeemuseum.org   (114 words)

  
 Bisbee, Arizona news, reviews, art, events, history, business and entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For the second year in a row Bisbee will be proud host to the Festival, which was the first of its kind in Arizona when it was conceived in 1991 and now is one of five.
Bisbee is a wonderful place to watch birds from the comfort of a porch or a perch on a mountain, but its also a great central location for the field trips organizers have planned.
Of gustatory note is the Wednesday, August 6th Welcome Reception, which will feature dishes form various Bisbee restaurants so that festival participants can have a foreshadowing of meals to come, and Saturday's Hors D'oeuvres Buffet and Presentation with keynote speaker Ken Kaufman at the Bisbee Repertory Theater (limited seating, reservation required, $25).
www.bisbeemarquee.com /www/0716/002_1.php   (664 words)

  
 Bisbee, Arizona Place Hippie Havens - Arizona - Hippyland
Bisbee''s charm comes from the hard working people that make a living there...they''re tired of boneheaded, socialistic, trustafarians that think not bathing is a cool way to stand out in a crowd and enjoy sucking off the efforts of better men than themselves.
Bisbee isn''t set up to handle a lot of transient traffic, and the class of people the town seeks to attract may not be the kind who might be reading this.
So Bisbee is an ok day trip but I certainly would not call it a "hippie haven" or even dream of living there.
www.hippy.com /php/review-7.html   (1990 words)

  
 Bisbee, Arizona City Guide - Bisbee Accommodations from Pamela Lanier
The Arizona Cactus & Succulent Research is the home of an extensive botanical garden containing representative samples of over 800 varieties of high desert plant life including threatened and endangered plants.
Bisbee, 90 miles southeast of Tucson, is the picturesque county seat of historic Cochise County.
Bisbee has a variety of restaurants that will soothe even the most discriminating palate.
www.lanierbb.com /search/city.php?cityid=774   (380 words)

  
 Vacation Rental Lodging in Bisbee Arizona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This vacation rental is a lovingly and artistically restored 100 year old miner’s house perched in the hills overlooking historic Old Bisbee, AZ.
The cottage offers tranquility and privacy yet, surprisingly, is just a 2 minute walk to the cafes, galleries and fantastic restaurants of Bisbee.
And if you enjoy birdwatching and hiking, simply step outside and the facsinating natural world of SE Arizona is just out the door to greet you.
www.hummingbird-hill-house.com   (89 words)

  
 The Bisbee Marquee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A couple of miles off the beaten path, Casa de San Pedro is a world class bed and breakfast at the San Pedro River and the Riparian National Conservation Area.
If you visit Bisbee during the Fall and Winter you can immerse yourself in the bird world in a big way, one of the many magnificent sites of the natural world in Southeastern Arizona and it is absolutely free.
Bisbee, The world at large, Tell it to city hall and Bulletin board let you get a local's view of Bisbee and beyond.
www.bisbeemarquee.com   (326 words)

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