Exploring Your Local Area...(Urban Exploration) *Updated Again, Now With More Such*

Old Courtland, Az jail 100 meters up the hill from the railroad station.

Old Courtland, Az jail 100 meters up the hill from the railroad station.

jail inside. has 2 cells. one was for drunks & street fighters, the other for the real bad guys...murderers & such. no indoor plumbing.

Courtland Az company store where miners could get supplies on credit until they got paid. many miners were always broke.

Courtland, Az train station. tracks ran to the right of this pic & wood buildings on the left that once included station, barbershop, hardware, apothecary, & one more i can't remember right now. wood buildings & track all were removed once the copper mines played out. damn open range bulls are mean. chased us back to the truck.

up the road to Gleeson...another mining ghost town. this was once the silver queen hotel. baths & hoookers on saturday nite. the earlier you were on the list, the cleaner your bath water & the cleaner your hoooker. lots of card sharks, flim-flam men, & gun slingers passed thru this hotel on their way to Tombstone, Bisbee, & Tucson during it's heyday. of course, the upper wooden part was dismantled & reused somewhere elseonce the copper mines played out.

more silver queen. it was about a 10,000 sq. ft structure just up the street & around the corner from the jail. most miners lived in tents & frequented the hotel on payday. first pic is back entrance for basement-type "services". you can see some played out mines in the background, too.

after a fire destroyed the entire town of Gleeson in 1912, the railroad brought adobe bricks in from Tucson to rebuild the station which also included barbershop, apothecary, etc.

what once was the entire town's water supply. in boom time water was hauled in by mule train 30 miles of rugged mountain road from the san pedro river. & last but not least, the saloon.

cool pics AZ not really what I would expect a ghost town to look like...(To many T.V. westerns)....

Awesome AZ!!

(I should get less lazy and finish my mill site pics)

Holy shit...very coool man.

I haven't the time to see them all fullsize at the moment...but I definitely will tomorrow.

Great work. I have to get back to something soon, I'm beginning to look like quite the slacker.

@Notech: Slacker.

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Originally posted by waywardson

cool pics AZ not really what I would expect a ghost town to look like...(To many T.V. westerns)....

thanks, wws. anything of value was hauled away as the towns were folding up & reused somewhere else.

@ honda & notech.....this shit's easy when you have no life like me!!!

So to keep Hondawgs thread from a horrible fall I continue,
this is where they cut the logs to usable size.


In the distance is a modern turbine repair shop.

more of the same.



The little gray building next to the trees is where I took my fail..

I thought that this building would be fun to explore.

I hope that that isn't a hanging rope !

These black walls were intriguing, I couldn't figure out why they were black like a fire had been there?

and there was alot of them!

Then I found signs of recent life...