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389 Congress St, Portland, Maine USA • The Portland City Hall is the center of city government in Portland, Maine. The structure was built in 1909 and was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. • Architect: Carrere & Hastings. – From Wikipedia.

Portland is Maine's business, financial and retail capital and the largest city in the state. Seascapes and cityscapes blend harmoniously in Portland, perched on a peninsula, jutting out into island-studded Casco Bay. The metropolitan hub of Maine's south coast region, Portland is a progressive, lively city incorporating the character of yesteryear into a modern urban environment. Historic architecture blends gracefully with the new as you stroll along her working waterfront or the cobblestone streets of the restored Old Port section of the city.

With a metro population of 230,000, the Greater Portland area is home to almost one quarter of Maine's total population. The population of the city is 66,363.

Portland is an easygoing city with friendly, hardworking people. Ranked nationally as one of the ten safest, culturally most fascinating US Cities and one of the top cities for doing business, housing is affordable, the schools and healthcare are outstanding.

Recreation, entertainment, scenery, culture -we've got the market cornered. Just ask the 3.6 million tourists who visit each year. And, the same things that attract vacationers make Portland a wonderful place to live, to work and to do business.
– From the City's website.

☞ On May 7, 1973, the National Park Service added this structure and site to the National Register of Historic Places (#73000119).

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389 Congress St, Portland, Maine USA • The Portland City Hall is the center of city government in Portland, Maine. The structure was built in 1909 and was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. • Architect: Carrere & Hastings. – From Wikipedia.

Portland is Maine's business, financial and retail capital and the largest city in the state. Seascapes and cityscapes blend harmoniously in Portland, perched on a peninsula, jutting out into island-studded Casco Bay. The metropolitan hub of Maine's south coast region, Portland is a progressive, lively city incorporating the character of yesteryear into a modern urban environment. Historic architecture blends gracefully with the new as you stroll along her working waterfront or the cobblestone streets of the restored Old Port section of the city.

With a metro population of 230,000, the Greater Portland area is home to almost one quarter of Maine's total population. The population of the city is 66,363.

Portland is an easygoing city with friendly, hardworking people. Ranked nationally as one of the ten safest, culturally most fascinating US Cities and one of the top cities for doing business, housing is affordable, the schools and healthcare are outstanding.

Recreation, entertainment, scenery, culture -we've got the market cornered. Just ask the 3.6 million tourists who visit each year. And, the same things that attract vacationers make Portland a wonderful place to live, to work and to do business.
– From the City's website.

☞ On May 7, 1973, the National Park Service added this structure and site to the National Register of Historic Places (#73000119).

• GeoHack: 43°39′33″N 70°15′26″W.

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Vault of the World War II Unknown - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Arlington National Cemetery - 2012-05-19
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Looking down at the marble cover over the vault in which the World Wari II Unknown is laid. This is in front of (west of) the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., in the United States. The memorial actually has no official name, but Arlington caretakers continue to refer to it by the clunky "Tomb of the Unknowns." Nearly everyone else uses the other name.

Arlington's first Amphitheater was constructed of wood in 1874, and soon proved far too small. Congress authorized construction of the Memorial Amphitheater on March 4, 1913. Ground-breaking occurred on March 1, 1915, and President Woodrow Wilson placed the cornerstone on October 15, 1915. It was dedicated on May 15, 1920.

Originally, the main entrance to Memorial Amphitheater had a rectangular granite plaza in front of it, from which some short marble steps led down to a slightly elliptical granite plaza surrounded by a marble balustrade. From this overlook, you could see a rectangular grass lawn 20 feet below. But this soon changed...

Memorial Amphitheater was altered forever the year after its dedication. In 1917, America entered World War I. More than 1.3 million Americans served in Europe during the war, and more than 116,516 died. Just 4,221 were unidentified or missing; the missing (3,173) were the vast majority of them. Nonetheless, 1,100 "unidentified" American war dead was a burden on the national conscience, and the media focused heavily on grieving mothers with no body to bury. Some American generals suggested in 1919 that a "Tomb of an Unknown Soldier" be created in the United States. The idea didn't gain traction at first, but in 1920 both England and France held huge public ceremonies honoring their unknown dead. These received much press attention in the United States, and on February 4, 1921, Congress enacted legislation establishing a similar memorial. Some proponents of the memorial originally proposed burying the unknown soldier in the crypt beneath the Capitol Rotunda -- a crypt originally planned for George Washington (but politely declined by his family). Worried that the Capitol might become a mausoleum, Congress instead chose Arlington National Cemetery as the site for the new memorial. On March 4, 1921, with just hours left in his presidency, President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation into law.

In the United States, preparation for the "Tomb of the Unknown Solider" was frantically under way. The newly-formed American Legion (a congressionally-chartered veterans' lobby group) was pressing as late as May 1921 for the body to be buried in the Capitol Crypt. This debate was not resolved until mid-July, and by then very little time remained to create the monument. Where to build the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery continued until October, when it was decided that the view from the Memorial Amphitheater's plaza was the most appropriate site.

The Tomb was cut unto the center of the short steps which led down to the granite overlook. Diggers buried downward until they reached the level of the lawn below. They then continued another 20 feet below the surface. The subsurface shaft was 16 feet from east to west and 9.5 feet from north to south, and filled with solid concrete. This formed the footings for the vault above. The footings had to be that deep and that large because tons of marble were going to be placed on top of them, and the memorial could not be permitted to sink or become destabilized. The vault itself was lined with marble. The vault's walls ranged in thickness from 7 feet at the bottom to 2 feet, 4 inches at the top. A plinth (or "sub-base") was set on top of the vault walls. The plinth serves as the base of the memorial proper, and also helps to conceal the rough, unfinished top of the vault walls. The plinth was made of three finished, rectangular pieces of marble which fitted over the vault walls like a collar. These are on the north, south, and west sides of the vault, and were the only part of the substructure visible in 1921. (They remain visible today; you can just see them in this image.) Four rectangular marble pieces form the actual base of the memorial. These were mortared to the top of the plinth. A rectangular marble capstone with curved sides was placed on top of the base. The capstone was pierced with the a hole to permit the coffin to be lowered into through the base, through the plinth, and to the bottom of the grave vault. The bottom of the vault was lined with 2 inches of French soil, taken from various battlefields in France.

The World War I unknown was interred as scheduled on November 11, 1921. More than 100,000 people attended the ceremonies, including the Premier of France, Aristide Briand; the former Premier of France, Rene Viviani (who led France through the war); Marshal Ferdinand Foch (who was Commander in Chief of Allied Forces in France); President Warren G. Harding, former President William Howard Taft, and former President Woodrow Wilson. One thousand "gold star mothers" (women who had lost a son in the war) attended the ceremony, as did every single living Medal of Honor winner. The entire United States Cabinet was there, and so was the entire United States Supreme Court. Every member of the House and Senate was present (although they had to stand in the colonnade). A large number of military personnel also attended the dedication. These included General John Pershing, who had led American forces in Europe; Lieutenant General Nelson Miles, former Commanding General of the Army; Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty of the United Kingdom; General Armando Diaz, Marshal of Italy; General Baron Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude of Belgium; Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, commander of British forces in Italy; Arthur Balfour, former Prime Minster of the United Kingdom; and Tokugawa, Prince of Japan. Also conspicuous was Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow Nation, in full battle regalia and headdress.

President Harding bestowed on the unknown soldier the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross (the latter was never awarded again). General Jacques presented the Croix de Guerre, Belgium's highest military honor. (He took from his own chest the medal, which had been bestowed on him by King Albert.) Admiral Beatty bestowed the Victoria Cross, which had never before been given to a foreigner. Marshal Foch bestowed the Medaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre with palm, France's highest military honor. General Diaz gave the Gold Medal for Bravery, Prince Bibescu of Romania gave the Virtuta Militaire, Dr. Dedrich Stephenek of Czechoslovakia presented the Szechoslovakia War Cross, and Prince Lubomirski of Poland gave the Virtuti Militan. When the coffin was ready for lowering into the vault, Chief Plenty Coups removed his war bonnet and tenderly placed it and his coup-stick on the coffin. He raised his hands to the sky. "I place on this grave of this noble warrior this coup stick and this war bonnet," he said, "every eagle feather of which represents a deed of valor by my race. I hope that the Great Spirit will grant that these noble warriors have not given up their lives in vain and that there will be peace to all men hereafter." An artillery battery fired, and the coffin began to be lowered. An answering a battery of fire came from the ''USS Olympia'', an American destroyer lying at anchor in the Potomac River. "Taps" were played. Once the coffin lay on the floor of the vault, the centerpiece of the capstone was put in place and the tomb sealed.

But all that existed was the base. The actual cenotaph, which you see here, did not yet exist.

Congress authorized completion of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in July 1926. The Secretary of War held a design competition, with judges from Arlington National Cemetery, the American Battle Monuments Commission, and the Commission of Fine Arts. Only architects of national standing were permitted to enter the competition, and 74 submitted designs. Five were chosen as finalists, and required to submit plaster models of their proposals. Architect Lorimer Rich and sculptor Thomas Hudson Jones won the competition. Their design imitated a sarcophagus, but really was a solid block of marble. The design included a thin rectangular base to go on top of the existing capstone. Then there was the "die block" (the main monument), on top of which was a capstone. The die block featured Doric pilasters (fake columns) in low relief at the corners. On the east side (facing the Potomac River) was a sculpture in low relief of three figures, representing female Victory, Valor (male, to her left), and Peace (female). The north and south sides were divided into three sections by fluted Doric pilasters, with an inverted wreath on the upper portion of each section. On the west side (facing the amphitheater) was the inscription: "Here Rests In Honored Glory An American Soldier Known But To God." It is still not clear who came up with the phrase, but it had been used on crosses marking the graves of unknown soldiers in Europe as early as 1925. The judges asked that the approaches to the Tomb be improved as well. Clarence Renshaw designed the steps. The balustrade was removed, and the short series of steps extended outward and downward until they reached the lawn. A small landing exists two-thirds of the way down, after which the steps continue (wider than before). Congress approved funding for the memorial and new steps on February 29, 1929, and a contract to complete the Tomb was awarded on December 21, 1929. Quartermaster General Brig. Gen. Louis H. Bash oversaw the construction, which was done by Hegman and Harris.

The Vermont Marble Company provided the marble. This proved very problematic. The Yule Marble Quarry at Marble, Colorado, was chosen as the quarry. A year passed before suitable pieces of marble could be located at the quarry and mined. Three pieces had to be mined before a piece suitable for the 56-ton die block was found. Three pieces were mined and discarded before a fourth piece was found for the 18-ton base. But once the base arrived at Arlington, workers discovered an imperfection in the marble which caused it to be discarded. A fifth, sixth, and seventh piece of marble was then mined, but only the eighth piece was suitable and brought to the cemetery. Amazingly, a piece for the 14-ton capstone was found on the first try.

Work began on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in September 1931, but stopped for three months after a flaw in the base was found. Work resumed in December, and all three pieces were in place on December 31, 1931. Fabrication was completed on-site, with sculptor Jones working five days a week. The Tomb was completed and opened to the public on April 9, 1932. There was no dedication ceremony, and the memorial has never been officially named.

Unfortunately, the Tomb began to fall apart almost immediately. Chips and spalls (pieces broken off after heating and contracting) were found coming off the base in 1933. By 1963, a huge horizontal and secondary vertical crack had appeared in the die block -- probably caused by the release of pressure after the marble was mined. Acid rain and pollution have caused the marble sculptures to wear down appreciably, such that today they are only about half as sharp as they once were. Although there is no likelihood that the monument will collapse, debate continues to rage as to whether the monument should be replaced.

Beginning on July 2, 1937, the U.S. Army began permanently stationing an honor guard at the Tomb. The 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment ("The Old Guard") formally took over these duties on April 6, 1948. It is guarded 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year long. The guard is changed once every hour, on the hour. Out of respect for the dead, the guard carries his rifle on the outside shoulder -- away from the Tomb. The guard is not permitted to speak or break his march, unless someone enters the restricted area around the Tomb. If this happens, the guard must come to a halt and bring his rifle (loaded with live ammunition) to port-arms. This is usually enough to make the person move back. (No one has ever gone further than the sharp slap of the rifle in the guard's hands.)

In June 1946, Congress approved the burial of unknown American from World War II at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Thirteen American unknowns were exhumed from cemeteries in Europe and Africa and shipped to Epinal, France. Maj. Gen. Edward J. O'Neill, U.S. Army, chose one of these caskets on May 12, 1958, as the "trans-Atlantic Candidate unknown." This casket was transported by air to Naples and placed aboard the USS Blandy. Two American unknowns were disinterred from the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii and four American unknowns disinterred from Fort McKinley American Cemetery in the Philippines. The six unknowns were taken by air to Hickam Air Force Base. On May 16, 1958, Col. Glen Eagleston, U.S. Air Force, selected a "trans-Pacific Candidate unknown," which was placed aboard the USS Canberra. The Blandy and Canberra rendezvoused off Virginia in May 1958, at which time the trans-Pacific Candidate unknown was transferred to the Canberra. Hospitalman First Class William R. Charette, the Navy's only active enlisted holder of the Medal of Honor, then placed a wreath at the foot of the casket on his right. (The other remains were buried at sea.) This individual became the World War II Unknown.

In August 1956, Congress approved the burial of a Korean War unknown at the Tomb. The remains of four unknown Americans from the Korean conflict were exhumed from the National Cemetery of the Pacific. On May 15, 1958, Master Sergeant Ned Lyle placed a wreath on the fourth casket to choose the Korean War Unknown. (The other three unknowns were reinterred in the National Cemetery of the Pacific.)

Because so much time had passed, the World War II and Korean War unknowns were chosen at the same time. The Unknown of Korea was transported aboard the Canberra at the same time as the "trans-Pacific Candidate unknown."

After the World War II Unknown was chosen, both the WWII and Korean War remains were taken back to the Blandy, which transported them to Washington, D.C. Like the World War I Unknown, they lay in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol. Both were interred in vaults on the west side of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day, May 30, 1958. Rather than enlarge the WWI vault, new vaults were dug in the plaza on the west side of the Tomb.

Congress authorized the entombment of a Vietnam War casualty in 1973. But with advances in identification of remains, no unknown remains could be found. Pressure from Vietnam veterans' groups was making the issue politically potent by the early 1980s, especially with Republican Ronald Reagan in office as president. And that's where the scandal began... In May 1972, 24-year-old U.S. Air Force pilot Michael Blassie was shot down in South Vietnam close to the Cambodia border. In October 1972, American ground patrols found Blassie's identity card, some American money, shreds of a USAF flight suit, and some skeletal remains near where Blassie went down. The I.D. card and money went missing soon thereafter. Pentagon officials declared the remains "likely to be" Blassie's, but no firm identification was ever made. By 1980, only four sets of Vietnam War-era remains could be declared unidentified, and one of these were the Blassie remains. In 1980, for unknown reasons, an Army review board ruled that the bones were not Blassie's. Soon thereafter, all documents in the file were removed and destroyed.

On May 8, 1984, the no-longer-"likely" remains were declared "unknown." The Vietnam Unknown was selected by Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Allan Jay Kellogg, Jr. (a Medal of Honor recipient) at Pearl Harbor on May 17, 1984. The unknown's remains were transported by the USS Brewton to Alameda Naval Base in California. They arrived on May 23, 1984, and were transported by automobile to nearby Travis Air Force Base on May 24. The remains were transported by air to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on May 25, and lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda from May 25 to May 28. They were interred in a new vault in front of the Tomb on May 28, 1984. President Reagan presented the Medal of Honor to the unknown soldier.

The possibility that the remains were Blassie's was first raised by a man investigating missing-in-action cases. The story broke into the press in January 1998, and in April the two U.S. Senators from Missouri and Blassie's family were demanding answers. After a high-level Pentagon review, the Secretary of the Army recommended on April 26 that the remains be disinterred. The Secretary of Defense ordered exhumation on May 6, and the remains came above ground on May 13. A DNA sample was obtained from the remains on June 15, and on June 29 the remains were identified as Blassie's. Blassie was buried in his home town of St. Louis on July 10, 1998, with handfuls of soil from Arlington National Cemetery. The following month, Blassie's family asked to keep the Medal of Honor, but the Pentagon refused -- saying it was intended to go to the unknown, not to Blassie (who had not won it). In June 1999, with no further unidentified Vietnam War remains available, Pentagon officials said they would keep the vault empty. The Vietnam War crypt was rededicated on September 16, 1999.

Interestingly, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier caused some major changes to D.C. as well as Arlington National Cemetery.

The final piece of "Arlington National Cemetery" as we know it today came with the construction of Arlington Memorial Bridge, Memorial Drive, and the Arlington Memorial Entrance in 1932. The bridge, the drive, and the entrance were designed as a single project and were dedicated on January 16, 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. The U.S. Commission on Fine Arts required that the bridge act as a symbolic link between North and South.

In fact, the famous McMillan Commission (which established the National Mall and set the locations of the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials) had proposed the bridge in 1901, but no action had been taken. When President Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in 1921, so many people swarmed over Highway Bridge (now the 14th Street Bridges) that it caused a three-hour traffic jam! Harding's own car had to abandon the roadway and take to the grass shoulder to get to the cemetery on time. Secretary of State Charles Evan Hughes had to walk across the bridge to make it.

The outcry over the feeble, inadequate bridges across the Potomac led to the construction of Memorial Bridge. Congress authorized its construction on February 24, 1925.

The legendary architectural firm of McKim, Meade & White -- which built some of the most notable buildings of the 20th century, like the New York Public Library, Manhattan Municipal Building, Washington Arch in Washington Square, NYC's Pennsylvania Station, the Algonquin Club in Boston, Boston Public Library, Rhode Island State House, Harvard Business School, the West Wing and East Wing of the White House, the National Museum of American History, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bank of Montreal Head Office, and the American Academy in Rome -- designed the bridge. The Neoclassical bridge is 2,163 feet long, with nine arches. It is made of reinforced concrete clad in North Carolina granite. At the time, extensive commercial river traffic used the Potomac River from the Great Falls of the Potomac (just upriver from Washington, D.C.) all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge was built with a draw span in the center to accommodate this traffic. (It still exists, but has been abandoned.)

Flanking the eastern ends of the bridge are two monumental Neoclassical equestrian statues. "The Arts of War" by Leo Friedlander stands on the bridge itself. As you face the bridge, "Valor" (a man riding a horse accompanied by a woman with a shield) is on the left and "Sacrifice" (a woman symbolizing the earth looks up at the god Mars on a horse) is on the right. Another set of equestrian statues adorns the entrance to Rock Creek Parkway, which is just to the north of Arlington Memorial Bridge. These are "The Arts of Peace" by James Earle Fraser. As you face the parkway, on the left is "Music and Harvest" (a winged horse paws the air between a man with a sheaf of wheat and a sickle and a woman with a harp). On the right is "Aspiration and Literature" (a winged horse Pegasus is flanked by a man holding a book and a woman holding a bow). Both sets of statues, which are each 17 feet tall and made of gilded bronze, were commissioned in 1925 but were not erected until 1951. They were cast in Italy -- a gift to the people of the United States from the people of Italy.

The bridge ended in Washington Circle, and from there Memorial Drive connected the bridge to the cemetery gates. Along Memorial Drive are numerous memorials and monuments: the Seabees Memorial, the Armored Memorial, the United Spanish War Veterans Memorial (known as "The Hiker"), Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd monument, the 101st Airborne Division Memorial, and the 4 Infantry (IVY) Division Monument. (Today, the Arlington Cemetery station on Metro's Blue Line is right next to the Seabees Memorial.)

Memorial Drive ends in the Hemicycle. Carved from the hillside that culminates in Arlington House, the Hemicycle is a Neoclassical semicircle 30 feet high and 226 feet in diameter. In the center is an apse 20 feet across and 30 feet high. In total, the Hemicycle covers 4.2 acres. The Hemicycle was constructed of reinforced concrete, but faced with granite from Mount Airy, Virginia. The walls range from 3 feet, 6 inches thick at the base to 2 feet, 6 inches at the top. The accent panels and coffers in the apse are inlaid with red Texas granite. The Great Seal of the United States is carved in granite in the center of the apse, while on either side are seals of the Department of the Army (south) and the Department of the Navy (north). Along the facade of the Hemicycle were 10 false doors or niches -- some up to five feet deep, others just indentations in the wall -- which were supposed to contain sculptures, memorial reliefs, and other monuments. The apse itself held a fountain, but that was supposed to be replaced with a major memorial in time.

But the Hemicycle is a dead end. You can't stop and admire the apse. Instead, the road diverges here, north and south, passing through wrought iron gates. The north gate is the Schley Gate -- named after Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, son of Civil War Commanding General Winfield Scott and hero of the Battle of Santiago Bay during the Spanish-American War. The south gate is the Roosevelt Gate, named for President Theodore Roosevelt. In the center of each gate, front and back, is a gold wreath 30 inches in diameter. Each wreath cradles the shield of one of the armed services that existed in 1932: The Marine Corps and Army on Roosevelt Gate, the Navy and Coast Guard on Schley Gate. (The Air Force did not exist until 1947.) Each gate is divided into 13 sections by wrought iron fasces, and above six of the sections are iron spikes topped by gold stars. The granite pillars at the end of the retaining wall and the pillars on each side of each gate are topped by granite funeral urns. Also on the granite pillar of each gate is a gilded lamp.

On top of the Hemicycle was a pedestrian walkway and a terrace some 24 feet wide. Originally, access to the walkway and terrace was granted only by going to the far end of the Hemicycle (near the wrought iron gates), through a pedestrian gate, and up some stairs. Above each arched entrance to the pedestrian stairs was a granite eagle. But this never actually happened: The pedestrian gates were locked for more than 50 years!

The Hemicycle was never actually completed. Intended to be Arlington National Cemetery's ceremonial gate, it just....dead-ended. The apse and niches were never filled. There was nothing on the other side. There was no way to use the Hemicycle without crossing dangerous highways. Plop. There it is. Indeed, by the 1980s, the Hemicycle was in serious disrepair. It had never been used for any purpose, and Arlington officials largely ignored it.

Originally, the exterior rear wall of the Hemicycle was flat. But in the early 1980s, women veterans began pressing for a memorial to women in the armed services. In 1988, the National Capital Memorial Commission, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the Fine Arts Commission approved the use of the Hemicycle as a site for the Women in Military Service for America Memorial. It was the first time a memorial to the living -- rather than the dead -- had been placed on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. Marion Gail Weiss and Michael Manfredi won a national design competition for the memorial, and the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts voted unanimously for this design on April 6, 1995. The memorial was built in 1997.

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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jeremy Fehr, right, from the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agri-Business Development Team (ADT), speaks with Afghan children and their grandfather Oct. 24, 2010, during a veterinary outreach sustainment program in Marawara District, Kunar province, Afghanistan. Local veterinarians treated nearly 200 goats, sheep and cattle. The Iowa ADT provided financial support, quality control and security during the event. (DoD photo by Capt. Peter Shinn, U.S. Air Force/Released)


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Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It was one of the last wide-open frontier boomtowns in the American Old West. From about 1877 to 1890, the town's mines produced USD to million in silver bullion, the largest productive silver district in Arizona. Its population grew from 100 to around 14,000 in less than 7 years. In 1881, it became the county seat of the new Cochise County.

Far distant from any other metropolitan city, by mid-1881 Tombstone boasted a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous dancing halls and brothels. All of these were situated among and on top of a large number of dirty, hardscrabble mines. The gentlemen and ladies of Tombstone attended operas presented by visiting acting troupes at the Schieffelin Hall opera house, while the miners and cowboys saw shows at the Bird Cage Theatre, "the wildest, wickedest night spot between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast."

Under the surface were tensions that grew into deadly conflict. Many of the ranchers in the area were Confederate sympathizers and Democrats. The capitalists and townspeople were largely Republicans from the Northern states. The fast-growing city, only 30 miles (48 km) from the U.S./Mexico border, was a wide-open market for beef stolen from ranches in Sonora, Mexico by a gang of outlaws known as The Cowboys. These men were a loosely organized band of friends and acquaintances who teamed up for various crimes and came to each other's aid.

The Earp brothers—Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan and Warren Earp—arrived in December 1879 and the summer of 1880. All assumed roles as lawmen at one time or another which led to ongoing conflicts with Ike and Billy Clanton, Frank and Tom McLaury, and other Cowboys. After repeated threats against the Earps by the Cowboys over many months, the conflict escalated into a confrontation that turned into a shootout, the now-famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

In the mid-1880s, the silver mines penetrated the water table and the mining companies made significant investments in specialized pumps. A fire in 1886 destroyed the Grand Central hoist and pumping plant, and it was unprofitable to rebuild the costly pump. Mining operations virtually ended. The city's population dwindled to a low of about 800 in the early 20th century but has stabilized at about 1500 residents. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 1,569. The city's economy today is based on tourism.

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Ed Schieffelin was briefly a scout for the U. S. Army headquartered at Camp Huachuca. Schieffelin frequently searched the wilderness looking for valuable ore samples. At the Santa Rita mines in nearby Santa Cruz Valley, three superintendents had been killed by Indians. When friend and fellow Army Scout Al Sieber learned what Schieffelin was up to, he is quoted as telling him, "The only rock you will find out there will be your own tombstone". Another account reported Schieffelin's friends told him, "Better take your coffin with you; you will find your tombstone there, and nothing else."

In 1877, Schieffelin used Brunckow's cabin as a base of operations to survey the country. After many months, Ed was working the hills east of the San Pedro River when he found pieces of silver ore in dry wash on a high plateau called Goose Flats.[6] It took him several more months to find the source. When he located the vein, he estimated the vein to be fifty feet long and twelve inches wide.[7] Schieffelin's legal mining claim was sited near Lenox's grave site, and on September 21, 1877, Schieffelin filed his first claim and Schieffelin fittingly named his stake Tombstone.

When the first claims were filed, the initial settlement of tents and cabins was located at Watervale near the Lucky Cuss mine. Former Territorial Governor Anson P.K. Safford offered financial backing for a cut of the mining claim, and Ed Schieffelin, his brother Al, and their partner Richard Gird formed the Tombstone Mining and Milling Company and built a stamping mill. When the mill was being built, U.S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor Solon M. Allis finished surveying the new town's site, which was revealed on March 5, 1879 to an eager public.[9] The tents and shacks near the Lucky Cuss were moved to new town site on Goose Flats, a mesa above the Toughnut 4,539 feet (1,383 m) above sea level and large enough to hold a growing town. Lots were immediately sold on Allen Street for .00 each. The town soon had some 40 cabins and about 100 residents. By the fall of 1879 a few thousand hardy souls were living in a canvas and matchstick camp perched among the richest silver strike in the Arizona Territory.

At the town's founding in March 1879, it took its name from Schieffelin's initial mining claim. Consisting mostly of wooden shacks and tents, it had a population of 100. When Cochise County was formed from the eastern portion of Pima County on February 1, 1881, Tombstone became the new county seat. Telegraph service to the town was established that same month. In early March, 1880, the Schieffelin's Tombstone Mining and Milling Company which owned the Tough Nut mine, among others, was sold to investors from Philadelphia. Two months later it was reported that the Tough Nut mine was working a vein of silver ore 90 feet (27 m) across that assayed at 0 per ton, with some ore assaying at ,000 a ton.

On September 9, 1880, the richly appointed Grand Hotel was opened, adorned with fine oil paintings, thick Brussels carpets, toilet stands, elegant chandeliers, silk-covered furniture, walnut furniture, a kitchen with hot and cold running water. At the height of the silver mining boom, when the population was about 10,000, the city was host to Kelly's Wine House featuring 26 varieties of wine imported from Europe, a beer imported from Colorado named "Coors", cigars, a bowling alley, and many other amenities common to large cities.

Early conflicts
Under the surface were other tensions aggravating the simmering distrust. Most of the Cowboys were Confederate sympathizers and Democrats from Southern states, especially Texas. The mine and business owners, miners, townspeople and city lawmen including the Earps were largely Republicans from the Northern states. There was also the fundamental conflict over resources and land, of traditional, Southern-style, “small government” agrarianism of the rural Cowboys contrasted to Northern-style industrial capitalism.

In the early 1880s, smuggling and theft of cattle, alcohol, and tobacco across the U.S./Mexico border about 30 miles (48 km) from Tombstone were common. The Mexican government taxed these items heavily and smugglers earned a handsome profit by sneaking these products across the border. The illegal cross-border smuggling contributed to the lawlessness of the region. Many of these crimes were carried out by outlaw elements labeled "Cow-boys", a loosely organized band of friends and acquaintances who teamed up for various crimes and came to each other's aid. The San Francisco Examiner wrote in an editorial, "Cowboys [are] the most reckless class of outlaws in that wild country...infinitely worse than the ordinary robber."At that time during the 1880s in Cochise County it was an insult to call a legitimate cattleman a "Cowboy." Legitimate cowmen were referred to as cattle herders or ranchers. The Cowboys were nonetheless welcome in town because of their free-spending habits but shootings were common.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Main article: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
On the evening of March 15, 1881, three Cowboys attempted to rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying US,000 in silver bullion (about 8,531 in today's dollars) en route from Tombstone to Benson, Arizona, the nearest railroad freight terminal. 180 Near Drew's Station, just outside of Contention City, the popular and well-known driver Eli 'Budd' Philpot and a passenger named Peter Roerig riding in the rear dickey seat were both shot and killed. Deputy U.S. Marshal Sheriff Virgil Earp and his temporary deputies and brothers Wyatt Earp and Morgan Earp pursued the Cowboys suspected of the murders. This set off a chain of events that culminated in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which the lawmen killed Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton.

The gunfight was the result of a personal, family, and political feud. Three months later on the evening of December 28, 1881 Virgil Earp was ambushed and seriously wounded on the streets of Tombstone by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building. Although identified, the suspects were not prosecuted. On March 18, 1882, Morgan Earp was killed by a shot that struck his spine while playing billiards at 10:00 p.m. Once again, the assailants were named but escaped arrest. Wyatt Earp, concluding that legal justice was out of reach, led a posse that pursued and killed four of the men they held responsible on what became known as the Earp Vendetta Ride.

After the Earp family left Arizona, it was left to future Sheriffs to finish the job of clearing the county of outlaws. John Slaughter was elected Cochise County Sheriff in 1886 and served two terms. He hired Burt Alford, who as a 15 year old boy had witnessed the shootout between the Earps and Cowboys. Alford served very effectively for three years until he began to drink heavily and began to associate with outlaws.

Boothill Graveyard
Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton, killed in the O.K. Corral shootout, are buried in the town's Boot Hill cemetery (this is the "Old City Cemetery," used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others). "Boot Hill" refers to the number of men who died with their boots on. Among a number of pioneer Boot Hill cemeteries in the Old West, Boot Hill in Tombstone is among the most well-known.Marshal Fred White, killed by Curly Bill Brocius, is also among the approximately 300 people buried there. It had a separate Jewish cemetery, which is nearby. With a new city cemetery built elsewhere, the old cemetery stopped accepting new burials in about 1883 (save for very few exceptions) and fell into disrepair until the 1940s, when the city began to restore and preserve the graveyard.

One of the most well known markers belongs to Lester Moore. He was a Wells, Fargo & Co. station agent in the Mexican border town of Naco, Arizona Territory. One afternoon Hank Dunstan appeared to claim a package due him. When he got it, he found it thoroughly mangled. The two men argued, and then both Moore and Dunstan drew their weapons. Dunstan got off four shots, hitting Moore in the chest with his .44 caliber revolver. Dunstan was mortally wounded with a hole through his ribs by the single shot Moore had squeezed off. Les Moore was buried in Boot Hill, and his famous tombstone epitaph remains an attraction in the cemetery.

HERE LIES LESTER MOORE, FOUR SLUGS FROM A 44, NO LES NO MORE
The cemetery is one of the city's most popular tourist attractions.

Silver mining in Arizona
Tombstone boomed, but founder Ed Schieffelin was more interested in prospecting than owning a mine. Ed was one-third partners with his brother Al Schieffelin and Richard Gird. He left Tombstone to find more ore and when he returned four months later, Gird had lined up buyers for their interest in the Contention claim, which they sold for ,000. It would later yield millions in silver. They sold a half-interest in the Lucky Cuss, and the other half turned into a steady stream of money. Al and Ed Schieffelin later sold their two-thirds interest in the Tough Nut for US million, and sometime later Gird sold his one-third interest for the same amount.

There are widely varying estimates of the value of gold and silver mined during the course of Tombstone's history. The Tombstone mines produced 32 million troy ounces (1,000 metric tons) of silver, more than any other mining district in Arizona. In 1883, writer Patrick Hamilton estimated that during the first four years of activity the mines produced about USD ,000,000 (approximately 6 million today). Other estimates include USD to USD million (about .02 billion to .17 billion today). Renewed mining is planned for the area.

One of the byproducts of the vast riches being produced, lawsuits became very prevalent. Between 1880 and 1885 the courts were clogged with a large number of cases, many of them about land claims and properties. As a result, lawyers began to settle in Tombstone and became even wealthier than the miners and those who financed the mining.[citation needed] In addition, because many of the lawsuits required expert analysis of the underground, many geologists and engineers found employment in Tombstone and settled there. In the end, a thorough mapping of the area was completed by experts which resulted in maps documenting Tombstone's mining claims better than any other mining district of the West.

Mining was an easy task at Tombstone in the early days, ore being rich and close to the surface. One man could pull out ore equal to what three men produced elsewhere. Some residents of Tombstone became quite wealthy and spent considerable money during its boom years. Tombstone's first newspaper, the Nugget, was established in the fall of 1879. The Tombstone Epitaph was founded on May 1, 1880. As the fastest growing boomtown in the American southwest, the silver industry and attendant wealth attracted many professionals and merchants who brought their wives and families. With them came churches and ministers. They brought a Victorian sensibility and became the town's elite. Many citizens of Tombstone dressed well and up-to-date fashion could be seen in this growing mining town. Visitors expressed their amazement at the quality and diversity of products that were readily available in the area. The men who worked the mines were largely European immigrants. The Chinese did the town's laundry and provided other services. The Cowboys ran the countryside and stole cattle from haciendas across the international border in Sonora, Mexico.

When the railroad was not built into Tombstone as had been planned, the increasingly sophisticated city of Tombstone remained relatively isolated, deep in a Federal territory that was largely an unpopulated desert and wilderness. Tombstone and its surrounding countryside also became known as one of the deadliest regions in the West. Water was hauled in until the Huachuca Water Company, funded in part by investors like Dr. George E. Goodfellow, built a 23 miles (37 km)-long pipeline from the Huachuca Mountains in 1881. No sooner was a pipeline completed than Tombstone's silver mines struck water.

City growth and decline
Due to poor building practices and poor fire protection common to boomtown construction, Tombstone was hit by two major fires. On June 22, 1881, the first fire destroyed 66 businesses making up the eastern half of the business district. The fire began when a lit cigar ignited a barrel of whiskey in the Arcade Saloon.

By mid-1881 there were fancy restaurants, Vogan's Bowling Alley,
four churches—Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and Methodist—an ice house, a school, the Schieffelin Hall opera house, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, several Chinese restaurants, French, two Italian, numerous Mexican, several upscale "Continental" establishments, and many "home cooking" hot spots including Nellie Cashman’s famous Rush House and numerous brothels all situated among and on top of a number of dirty, hardscrabble mines. The Arizona Telephone Company began installing poles and lines for city's first telephone service on March 15, 1881.

Capitalists from the north-eastern United States bought many of the leading mining operations. The mining itself was carried out by immigrants from Europe, chiefly Cornwall, Ireland and Germany.[36] Chinese and Mexican labor provided services including laundry, construction, restaurants, hotels, and more.

The mines and stamping mills ran three shifts. Miners were paid union wages of USD.00 per day working six, 10-hour shifts per week. The approximately 6,000 men working in Tombstone generated more than 8,000 a week (approximately ,139,400 today) in income. The mostly young, single, male population spent their hard-earned cash on Allen Street, the major commercial center, open 24 hours a day.

The respectable folks saw traveling theater shows at Schieffelin Hall, opened on June 8, 1881. On December 25, 1881 the Bird Cage Theatre opened on Allen Street, offering the miners and Cowboys their kind of bawdy entertainment. In 1882 the New York Times reported that "the Bird Cage Theatre is the wildest, wickedest night spot between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast." The Bird Cage remained open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year until it closed its doors in 1889. Respectable women stayed on the north side of Allen Street. The prostitutes worked the saloons on the south side and in the southeast quarter of the town, as far as possible from the proper residential section north of Fremont Street.

By late 1881 Tombstone had more than 7,000 citizens, excluding all Chinese, Mexicans, women and children residents. At the height of the town's boom, the official population reached about 10,000, with several thousand more uncounted. In 1882 the Cochise County Courthouse was built at a cost of around ,000.

On May 25, 1882, another, more destructive fire started in a Chinese laundry on Fifth Street between Toughnut and Allen streets. It destroyed the Grand Hotel and the Tivoli Saloon before it jumped Fremont Street, destroying more than 100 businesses and most of the business district. Lacking enough water to put out the flames, buildings in the fire's path were dynamited to deny the fire fuel. Total damages were estimated to be USD 0,000, far more than the estimated 0,000 insurance coverage. But rebuilding started right away nonetheless.

In March 1883 along one short stretch of Allen Street, there were drinking establishments in two principal hotels, the Eagle Brewery, Cancan Chop-House, French Rotisserie, Alhambra, Maison Dore, City of Paris, Brown's Saloon, Fashion Saloon, Miners' Home, Kelly's Wine-House, the Grotto, the Tivoli, and two more unnamed saloons.

Mines strike water
The Tough Nut Mine first experienced seepage in 1880. In March 1881, the Sulphuret Mine struck water at 520 feet (160 m). A year later, in March 1882, miners in a new shaft of the Grand Central Mine hit water at 620 feet (190 m). The flow wasn’t at first large enough to stop work, but experienced miners thought the water flow would increase, and it did. Soon constant pumping with a 4 inches (100 mm) pump was insufficient. The silver ore deposits they sought were soon underwater.

Several mine managers traveled to San Francisco and met with the principal owners of the Contention Mine. They talked about options for draining the mines, and found the only system available for pumping water out of mines below 400 feet (120 m) was the Cornish engine which had been used at the Comstock Lode in the 1870s. They bought and installed the huge Cornish engines in the Contention and Grand Central mines. By mid-February, 1884 the engines were removing 576,000 US gallons (2,180,000 l; 480,000 imp gal) of water every twenty-four hours. The city merchants celebrated the continued success of mining and the transfer of funds to their businesses. The Contention and the Grand Central found that their pumps were draining the mining district, benefiting other mines as well, but the other companies refused to pay a proportion of the expense.

On May 26, 1886, the Grand Central hoist and pumping plant burned. The fire was so intense that the metal components of the Cornish engine melted and warped. The headworks of the main mine shaft were also destroyed. Shortly afterward, the price of silver slid to 90 cents an ounce. The mines that remained operational laid off workers. Individuals who had thought about leaving Tombstone when the mine flooding started now took action. The price of silver briefly recovered for a while and a few mines began producing again, but never at the level reached in the early 1880s.

Tourism
The U.S. census recorded fewer than 1900 residents in 1890 and fewer than 700 residents in 1900. Tombstone was saved from becoming a ghost town partly because it remained the Cochise County seat until 1929, when county residents voted to move county offices to nearby Bisbee. The classic Cochise County Courthouse and adjacent gallows yard in Tombstone are preserved as a museum.

The open lot or alleyway where the historic Gunfight at the O.K. Corral started has been preserved, but has been surrounded by a wall. Mannequins are used to depict the location of the participants as recorded by Wyatt Earp. Visitors may pay to see a reenactment of the gunfight at 2:00 p.m. each day. Fremont Street (modern Arizona Highway 80), where portions of the gunfight took place, is open to the public.

According to Guinness, the world's largest rosebush was planted in Tombstone in 1885 and still flourishes today in the city's sunny climate. This Lady Banksia rose now covers 8,000 sq ft (740 m2) of the roof on an inn, and has a 12 ft (3.7 m) circumference trunk. The rose bush is also walled off, and admission is charged.

Currently, tourism and western memorabilia are the main commercial enterprises; a July 2005 CNN article notes that Tombstone receives approximately 450,000 tourist visitors each year. This is about 300 tourists/year for each permanent resident. In contrast to its heyday, when it featured saloons open 24 hours and numerous houses of prostitution, Tombstone is now a staid community with few businesses open late.

Performance events help preserve the town's wild-west image and expose it to new visitors. Helldorado Days is Tombstone's oldest festival,[citation needed] and celebrates the community's wild days of the 1880s. Started in 1929 (coincidentally the year Wyatt Earp died), the festival is held on the third weekend of every October, near the anniversary date of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and consists of gunfight reenactment shows, street entertainment, fashion shows and a family-oriented carnival. Tombstone's Main Event: A Tragedy At The OK Corral, a stage play by Stephen Keith, is presented inside the O.K. Corral. It depicts the Cowboys' version of events in which the Earps shot the Cowboys as they attempted to surrender.

Historic district
Allen Street
The Tombstone Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District. The town's focus on tourism has threatened the town's designation as a National Historic Landmark District, a designation it earned in 1961 as "one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged frontier town of the 1870s and '80s." In 2004, the National Park Service declared that the Tomb's historic designation was threatened, and asked the community to develop an appropriate stewardship program.

Cochise County Courthouse in Tombstone, Arizona, before it was restored. It remained vacant from 1931 through 1955, when it was redeveloped as a museum.
31.711944°N 110.068889°W
The National Park Service noted inappropriate alterations to the district included:

Placing "historic" dates on new buildings
Failing to distinguish new construction from historic structures
Covering authentic historic elevations with inappropriate materials
Replacing historic features instead of repairing them
Replacing missing historic features with conjectural and unsubstantiated materials
Building incompatible additions to existing historic structures and new incompatible buildings within the historic district
Using illuminated signage, including blinking lights surrounding historic signs
Installing hitching rails and Spanish tile-covered store porches when such architectural features never existed within Tombstone
Historical buildings include Schieffelin Hall, the opera house built by Al Schieffelin in 1881, and the Cochise County Courthouse. The courthouse was largely unused and then vacant after the county seat was moved to Bisbee. An attempt was made to turn it into hotel in the 1940s, and when that failed it stood empty until 1955. The Tombstone Restoration Commission acquired the courthouse and developed it as a histiorical museum that opened in 1959. It features exhibits and thousands of artifacts documenting Tombstone's past.

Geography and geology
The Tombstone District located at 31°42′57″N 110°3′53″W (31.715940, -110.064827)[46] sits atop a mesa (elevation 4,539 feet (1,383 m)) in the San Pedro River valley between the Huachuca Mountains and Whetstone Mountains to the west, and the Mules and the Dragoon Mountains to the east. The silver-bearing Tombstone Hills around the city are caused by a local upheaval of porphyry through a limestone capping.

When actively mined, the silver vein of argentiferous galena (silver bearing lead) was large and well defined. The silver and lead was easily milled and smelted. The lead content sometimes was as much as 50 per cent of the ore, and assays proved the silver content ran as high as 5.00 per ton in 1881 dollars.

The underlying basement rocks are fine-grained Pinal Schist which is intruded by gneissic granite. The outcrop is in a small area south of the principal mines. The overlying Paleozoic quartzite and limestones rock lies in an unconformity with a total thickness ranging from 4,000 feet (1,200 m) to 5,000 feet (1,500 m), and contains 2,500 feet (760 m) to 3,500 feet (1,100 m) of Mississippian Escabrosa and Naco formation limestones of Pennsylvanian age in the upper formations.

Overlying the Naco Limestone is an unconformable Mesozoic series of conglomerate, thick-bedded quartzites, and shales, with two or three lenses of soft, bluish-gray limestone. Into these formations intrude intruded great bodies of quartz monzonite and by dikes of quartz monzonite-porphyry and diorite-porphyry. Structural faulting throughout the district especially immediately south of Tombstone, where the strata are closely folded.

Tombstone District ores have been produced geologically in three or more ways.

They may have been formed in argentiferous (silver bearing) lead sulfide containing spotty amounts of copper and zinc. These deposits are usually deeply oxidized and enriched by irregular replacement bodies along mineralized fissure zones and anticlinal rolls cut by Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary formations. Ore bodies are often closely associated with newer cross-cutting intrusive dikes of Laramide.

Ore deposits were formed by Base metal mineralization occurs with oxidation found in fault and fracture zones in Laramide volcanics and quartz latite porphyry intrusive.

Silver ore was also formed in Manganese oxides with some argentiferous deposits in lenticular or pipe-like replacement bodies along fracture and fault zones, usually in Pennsylvanian-Permian era Naco Group limestones.

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,504 people, 694 households, and 419 families residing in the city. The population density was 349.8 per square mile (135.0/km²). There were 839 housing units at an average density of 195.1 per square mile (75.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 87.37% White, 0.60% Black or African American, 1.00% Native American, 0.33% Asian, 8.18% from other races, and 2.53% from two or more races. 24.14% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 694 households out of which 20.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.6% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.5% were non-families. 32.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.17 and the average family size was 2.73.

In the city the age distribution of the population shows 19.3% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 19.9% from 25 to 44, 32.5% from 45 to 64, and 23.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 49 years. For every 100 females there were 94.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.0 males.

The median income for a household in the city was ,571, and the median income for a family was ,750. Males had a median income of ,923 versus ,846 for females. The per capita income for the city was ,447. About 13.0% of families and 17.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.6% of those under age 18 and 13.1% of those age 65 or over. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 1,569.

Daily reenactment of the famous fight
Tombstone's unique heritage has made the town a popular reference point in television, film, and music, portraying open conflict (between, in this case, rural farmers involved in the cattle-trade, and businessmen who were managing local silver mines).

Film
Tombstone has lent its name to many Western movies over the years, including but not limited to Sheriff of Tombstone (1941), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Tombstone (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994).

Music
The Brazilian countrycore quartet Matanza have a song named Tombstone City. Bob Dylan has a song named Tombstone Blues, it appears on the album Highway 61 Revisited. Singer/songwriter Carl Perkins wrote a song titled "The Ballad Of Boot Hill", which focused on Billy Clanton's role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. It was recorded by Johnny Cash in 1959, but it went unreleased until 1965 for his Columbia Records album Sings the Ballads of the True West. The first line of the Mason Proffit song "Two Hangmen" has the narrator of the song "riding into Tombstone."

Television
The Doctor Who serial The Gunfighters is set in Tombstone.
From 1957 to 1960, Tombstone was featured in the ABC and later syndicated Western television series Tombstone Territory starring Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister and Richard Eastham as Harris Claibourne, editor of The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper.
On October 11, 2006, Tombstone was featured in episode #301 of the Syfy series Ghost Hunters. The TAPS crew led by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson visit the Birdcage Theatre, which was a popular night spot frequently visited by legends such as Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. TAPS tries to determine if the place is haunted by spirits of old patrons of the Old West.
On July 3, 2009, the Birdcage Theatre was once again investigated for paranormal activity by the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures crew. Ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin investigate the building while being locked in overnight to find any evidence of its reported ghostly occupants.
On October 13, 2009, Discovery Channel aired an Tombstone episode of Ghost Lab in which Everyday Paranormal investigated the Birdcage Theater, the Crystal Palace, and Boothill cemetery, as well as looked in a silver mine for a possible source of energy to fuel the large amount of paranormal activity in the city. In the Boothill cemetery, they captured a picture of an alleged "shadow person".
On November 16, 2011, SyFy featured a landmark in Tombstone on the series Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, in which the team investigated the Bird Cage Theatre, apparently haunted by a coffin-shaped apparition. The theatre was known for over 26 deaths. SyFy has aired two episodes on two different series investigating the theatre, the other series being Ghost Hunters.

Education
Tombstone Unified School District serves Tombstone. The district schools in Tombstone are Walter J. Meyer Elementary School and Tombstone High School. Residents of the Tombstone school district are within the Cochise Technology District.

Historic properties
Several properties in Tombstone have been included in the National Register of Historic Places. The following are images of some of these properties:



Occupy Bohemian Grove: State of the Counterculture Union Address 2012 by Dr. Ryan Bartek
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Follow the Occupy Bohemian Grove PDX Committee and Bohemian Grove Action
Network this July to Monte Rio California and tell the global elite their
party's over.

OCCUPY BOHEMIAN GROVE: STATE OF THE COUNTERCULTURE UNION ADDRESS 2012 BY DR.
RYAN BARTEK
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It was barely a year after the fall of Wall Street, in February 2010, when I
penned the first SOTCU ADDRESS. I was literally stranded on the Treasure
Island of Pyrate Lore, licking my wounds in Florida, hopelessly treading
water amidst the utter decimation of the American economy.

My secret tropical island paradise had frozen to record low temps - black
ice slicked the pavement, palm trees were brown. I was working 15 hours a
week at minimum wage for one of the most evil corporations in America, only
because there was no other way out. Even hustling like a Crackhead Spainjer
was ironically useless, because here I was in one of the biggest tourist
traps of The South and it was an absolute ghost town. This venerated rich
kid Spring Break Hallelujah Town was Arctic as the ICE PLANET HOTH. Even
the homeless bums migrated like sparrows.

OBAMA had still yet to completely turn heel and was still struggling to pass
"ObamaCare." There was still a thread of hope attached to this man, even if
saturated by mainstream DNC influence. After all, he wasn't Skull and Bones
or a Freemason; he wasn't quite tied to old money or The Hidden Hand.
Surely he had a corporate stooge streak (he was a Capitalist President,
after all) - but he wasn't one of "them." OBAMA seemed to know that by
proxy he was setting an example as a historical figure and tried to live up
to that pressure as humanistic as possible. When I met the man, long before
he was president, I did not get the vibe of pure evil. To be honest, he had
an aura like a powerhouse. I knew he was going to significant.

But then he pushed through the health care plan, and for the GOP it was like
smashing a hornets nest with a baseball bat. He crossed the line and the
propaganda flood was totalitarian in its vengeance. Exactly as I'd said -
the second OBAMA gets in, the avalanche of doom the Neo-Cons manifested
would plow him right under.

And then poking around online, in the dead of frozen night, I found a video
with Obama and John Walsh (of "America's Most Wanted" fame). Obama
explained how he was trying to put through legislation that would require
every cop to take DNA Samples from anyone they pulled over in traffic
without requiring a warrant or just cause. That this DNA would be logged in
an international database in which all branches of the FBI/CIA/Interpol/ISI
would have unquestioned legal access.

That's when my extremely cautious and shaky honeymoon with Barack Obama
ended. Soon after that I arrived in Portland, Oregon, the day of the BP Oil
Catastrophe. That's about the time Obama went gray, when he started looking
as haunted as Mussolini in 1945. Most assumed The Illuminati just flipped
the remote control of a Manchurian Candidate-like microchip in the back of
his head and rendered him a human robot. Or perhaps the Aliens came down
and replaced him with a genetic CloneSlave. Surely that would make more
sense then the incoherent enigma that is his presidency.

Nothing he does adds up, and with the severity that the Lusitania or Gulf of
Tonkin doesn't add up. Which is to say it isn't supposed to "add up," but
rather only to contribute to that old world scheme residing behind that all
too familiar curtain of Oz. He's just another stooge, as they all are.
This is why the Federal Reserve has gone on without penalty or oversight.
This is why the Patriot Act was passed once again without dissent. This is
why he's aggressively furthered pointless wars which like all American wars
are never meant to be won, only sustained to line the pockets of Dow Jones
profiteers.

As is why he's filled his cabinet with the same wrecking ball economists
that are behind the switchboards of this blatantly phony "recession" just as
they were during "the great depression" or any other similar pyramid scheme
of "economical calamity." How are we in a great depression when every
Fortune 500 company is making record profits? When we are besieged with a
period of historical, staggering abundance?

We've reached a point where their hands are so far into the cookie jar they
don't even feel the need to mask it anymore. They went whole-hog for the
grand burglary and no one said a god damned word. The people just took it,
buying the careful matrix of propaganda built from the leverage and
participation of the reigning media tycoons. It really isn't much more
difficult than that. They sunk the Lusitania, they forced the Japanese to
attack us, they fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin, they framed the Bay of Pigs,
they killed 1500+ people at The World Trade Center. The clear evidence does
not support any other view and I cannot even communicate with anyone who
doesn't see through this.

And people wonder why we are so angry. Why we're marching in the streets.
Why even after they beat, torture, paralyze and terrorize us we refuse to
give up or go home. Somehow we've reached a point where even the most
fever-pitch kook calling in to the Alex Jones show is probably right about
everything.

Most still have no idea about COREXIT 9500, even in the Age of Occupy. In
April 2010, to combat the BILLION GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL that shot from the
Earth's Crust, Obama allowed BP to dump 50 MILLION GALLONS of Corexit 9500
into The Gulf, which is a chemical 4 times more toxic then the crude oil
itself. Corexit's function is to literally eat the oil, instantly
obliterating it into minuscule particles. In theory, these particles are
biodegradable and mix into the ocean currents like loose grains of sand. In
reality, Corexit had never actually been used on anything larger then 1000
barrels of oil - which is why all of these globules have accumulated into a
massive jelly blob which is crawling along The Gulf floor.

Furthermore, the chemical immediately releases the most deadly, latent
properties of crude, causing the surrounding water to soak up 3,500% more of
the toxic properties then it would in its natural state. This aquatic
Corexit landmass - this oxygen-deprived, toxic vacuum - has already killed
millions of fish, altering the eco-system and supposedly mutating the
genetics of all ensnared life forms. As this Blob lingers off the coast of
Florida for the next few hundred years, smaller chunks continue to wash
ashore in Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, etc. At a microscopic
level, it's been continually ingested through skin contact of any and all
swimming those same beaches. Having never been tested at length on human
subjects - and quickly banned in the UK - a 2011 investigation determined
that Corexit is a confirmed carcinogen in all probability worse then Agent
Orange itself. It literally makes red blood cells hemorrhage when ingested.
When the EPA refused to test the seafood for months, Walmart threatened to
pull out of selling any seafood from The Gulf. Then the EPA panicked and
said 300 PPM of COREXIT 9500 on food was fine - and ever since then people
have been devouring this neurotoxic poison en masse. Furthermore, this mix
of Corexit, crude oil and methane gas has for some time been evaporating
and, in turn, raining down upon the region - supposedly all the way into
Canada. This precipitation was (and still is) affecting plant life like an
acidic pesticide. One search on YouTube will bring forth hundreds of
amateur videos of these events throughout 2010, as well as testimonials from
people dizzy/vomiting after heavy rains, sick for days - their homes covered
in oily residue and streets slicked with that distinctive "rainbow film."

I wrote about this crisis extensively and worked closely with journalists
who traveled to New Orleans/Florida to cover this when OBAMA signed an
executive order stating that any journalist or new agency caught filming the
"clean up effort" (i.e. criminal cover up) would be sentenced to 15 years in
prison with a federal felony and charged a ,000 fine. If you don't
believe me, they shut down Anderson Cooper live on CNN. And then the story
went away. Read my report here:

www.scribd.com/doc/39720625/ACROPOLIS-NOW-The-Great-Ameri...
-by-Ryan-Bartek

Obama has knowingly murdered tens of thousands from chemical poisoning and
given millions more crippling defects which will not be apparent for many
years.

Which brings us to the next point - FUKUSHIMA. When that 9.2 earthquake
rocked Japan on March 11th, it crippled three nuclear power plants in one
blow (the entire Fukushima Diachi complex). All three plants experienced
total nuclear meltdown and have since released staggering amounts of
radiation that are so unfathomably high the highest-tech equipment mankind
possesses cannot gauge it...

These aren't nuclear meltdowns - they are melt-throughs. Something, you
must understand, which has never happened in all of history. The
radioactive ooze inside the broken reactors is so uncontrollably hot that
it's burned through the containment units. Just imagine the blood splatter
from James Cameron's Aliens and insert Mother Earth into the equation. If
these volatile streams of toxic ooze burn their way to underlying volcanic
activity, then the chain reaction could make the entire complex explode -
thus sending a portion of the world into a sort of nuclear winter, rendering
significant parts of Japan/Indo-China uninhabitable...

As the guts of Fukushima hollow their path through Terra Firma, all
groundwater and soil it connects with will be coated with lethal radiation
and genetic mutagens that will last for 12 billion years. In response to
this problem, Tepco (the Corporation which owns these reactors) has admitted
that they cannot in anyway coat these plants with concrete and forge a
makeshift band-aid of lead and cement like the Russians did at Chernobyl.

You may have heard the plant workers were dumping seawater inside the
reactors with fire hoses to keep them from exploding, and this part is true.
What they haven't explained is that every time they stop, 50 years of spent
uranium catches on fire and releases about 1000 times the amount of
radiation the Hiroshima bomb let off.

At this point, in June, Japan has been coated by an estimated fallout that
is equivalent to 20,000 atomic bombs and that the rain coming down on the
Japanese people clocks in the same as a highly targeted dose of aggressive
chemotherapy. The sewers of Japan are now clogged with raw sewage on par
with near-identical levels. You ask: "Where does radioactive sewage come
from?" Well, from people shitting pure radiation...

What you also don't know is that the Japanese government - at the behest of
the Obama administration - has dumped this radioactive seawater (which
registers at 7.5 million times the legal limit) directly into the ocean.
This factoid comes from the Chinese government's official website, who
recently posted this as a warning to their citizens. Their discovery is
that a 250,000 kilometer slick of radiation is now floating in The Pacific
(aka 100,000 square miles). And this lethal, eternal sludge is on a time
frame to coat the beaches of Hawaii and the entire West Coast of the United
States by 2013...

One speck of these radioactive properties (like plutonium or cesium) will
absolutely kill you and could easily be ingested in a piece of fish, seaweed
or rainwater. Once you have one of these particles in your system, this
mutates you a cancer-radiating death totem for all those surrounding you.
When you die the particle lives on, buried with you forever; eventually
flushed out through decomposition into the soil/water supply that in turn
finds its way back into the population...

Researchers are pulling car filters out of vehicles in Seattle and said
filters are setting off Geiger Counters - the data shows everyone in the
Northwest has been inhaling 5 hot particles of radiation a day; the Japanese
30. The data also indicates that the evacuation levels of Chernobyl are now
permanent life in the soil and water supply of Tokyo - in some cases
registering 30 times higher then the Russian calculations...

The US government's answer has been to stop testing the rain and raise the
"safe levels" of radiation intake by 300% (the Japanese raised it 2000%).
In reality, the rain in San Francisco recently tested at 18,000 times the
normal level, and particles of Plutonium have been discovered in milk as far
East as Vermont. It's being found in the tap water of virtually every major
USA city and where it's been strongest the death rate of newborns and
infants (including miscarriages) has shot through the roof...

Amidst this murderous, negligent rampage we view the true face of Barack
Obama - withered and gray, unhinged and desperate, simmering with destitute
hypocrisy. No other character in literature comes so close to representing
his abhorrent duality than Harvey Dent. For the man who once promised the
most transparent administration in history has now sustained and illegally
launched more wars and draconian police state laws then any other President
in USA history. BUSH II was so horrible that he made Ronald Reagan look
good by comparison - but OBAMA somehow making BUSH II seem tame by
comparison? OBAMA beefed up the NDAA, thus making the military and the
police one in the same, rendering the USA a legal battlefield in which
anyone can be assassinated, black-bagged, tortured, erased without a warrant
or even just cause. He extended "Homeland Security" to over million
employees, manned the FEMA camps with armed MP's, launched the ICE centers,
sold himself wholesale to the Bilderberg mob. He shredded the constitution,
eliminated Habeas Corpus, filled his administration with the same criminal
political mafia that has haunted our country forever. And when the Occupy
Protests started, the Federal Government (under executive directives)
launched a Cointelpro operation where they were coordinating raids against
dozens of our camps throughout the nation and sending Homeland Security en
masse to stalk us, arrest us, beat us, wipe us out. From BUSH nothing
changed - it only got worse.

The recently passed dictatorial order "National Defense Resources
Preparedness Executive Order" does to the country as a whole what the NDAA
did to the Constitution - completely evaporates any form of due process or
judicial oversight for any action taken by the Government in the interest of
"national security." This new Executive Order gives supreme power to the
president and his cabinet. The Secretary of Defense has power over all
water resources; The Secretary of Commerce has power over all material
services and facilities, including construction materials; The Secretary of
Transportation has power over all forms of civilian transportation; The
Secretary of Agriculture has power over food resources and facilities,
livestock plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm
equipment; The Secretary of Health and Human Services has power over all
health resources; The Secretary of Energy has power over all forms of
energy. Don't believe? Read here:

www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-...
al-defense-resources-preparedness

What is the alternative? No challenge from the left, and the Republican
role call of candidates is symbolically as disgusting as the reality at
hand. Romney (the Bilderberg stooge), GinGrinch (the Bohemian Grove
puppet), Bachmann (the Tea Party ignoramus), Cain (the Federal Reserve
implant) and Santorum (the anti-gay nut-job literally named after sloppy
queer buck-shot ass-froth).

You know you are absolutely f**ked when Ron Paul is the last true beacon of
hope and rational sanity. But when a situation this critical arises, you
better pray to whatever deity you subscribe that the crazy guy from Texas
whose spent 50+ years ranting about the Orwellian Conspiracy makes it into
office. In terms of Paul, he has as many goofy views as he does legitimate
ones - and as a third party can fairly much give the Tea Party AND Occupy
essentially what they want, or launch us in the direction of clarity. All
Ron Paul really needs is 24 hours in office and he'll wave his crazy old man
magic wand and undo everything the Bilderberg/Grove mob put into play
through one savage pen stroke.

But reality is reality, and Ron Paul is not going to win. Even if he won
the popular vote (as he actually might in Texas and California - something
no one in the establishment media wants to ponder) they wouldn't let him
take office. And Romney is not going to win either - there's no way. A
Mormon will not be allowed in the White House. So get used to it - it's
going to be 4 more years of Barack Obama and his raised-chin, resurrected
Egyptian Pharaoh bullshit.

And I still haven't even gotten to my main point - BOHEMIAN GROVE. An old
CIA guy once told a friend of mine: "Believe nothing you read and only half
of what you see." Damn skippy.

When the OCCUPY Protests began - when legitimate dissent was under constant
threat from gangs of riot cops in storm trooper gear - I kept telling people
that we would eventually reach this point. When the charge was led against
the obvious, fathomable targets (banks, corporations, corrupt politicians)
it would eventually lead down the path I was assured it would. Chiefly,
that long, winding road of inescapable conspiracy involving all those scary
esoteric fraternities and royal bloodlines. I knew Occupy would soon find
itself mired in OCCUPY BILDERBERG, OCCUPY FREEMASONRY, OCCUPY AGENDA 21,
OCCUPY GOLDEN DAWN, OCCUPY THULE SOCIETY, OCCUPY SKULL and BONES, OCCUPY
FEDERAL RESERVE - all the way down the line, to OCCUPY HOLLOW EARTH. Which
is why I've gone whole-hog to try and maneuver the Occupy zeitgeist at one
target in particular - OCCUPY BOHEMIAN GROVE.

Never heard of this? It's because you aren't supposed to know. They've
flexed all their muscle to bury this from the public for 123 years, but you
can't stop a revelation thats time has come. So imagine if once a year the
grand puppetmasters of the 1% all gather together for their own clandestine
Burning Man gathering deep in the redwoods of Northern California.

Bohemian Grove is a super-exclusive encampment/party for the most corrupt of
"The 1%" whose attendees have included every Republican President since 1888
as well as Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffet, Colin Powell, Donald
Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, Alan Greenspan, Karl Rove, Norman
Schwarzkopf and the Rockefeller Family. Other names include high-ranking
members of ALEC, NATO, NAFTA, Stratfor, Haliburton, The United Nations,
Bilderberg Group, CIA, FBI, Federal Reserve and the 9/11 Commission report
committee. The list continues to spiral with a laundry list of major
players in world politics, big business,the banking industry and the
military industrial complex.

Those involved are either guests or members of "The Bohemian Club." Formed
in the 1870's as something resembling an artists' retreat, this 2700 acre
campground (dubbed "Bohemian Grove") exists 75 miles north of San Francisco.
This camp was slowly bought out and became an annual, clandestine party.

Every year from mid-July to the beginning of August, these men hold
secretive "Lakeside Talks." This is the cause of concern - secret seminars
involving unbelievable concentrations of wealth and power. One can ask "if
it's secret, how do you know about this?" Because while the contents of
these talks remain a mystery, we know for a fact they take place. Also,
program guides which have been leaked contain dubious speeches involving
everything from reshaping the Middle East through NATO involvement, nuclear
energy, prison systems, war strategy, banking cartels, etc.

But here's where it gets weird - it's not just a normal camp. You have
entire sectors of industry and government camping together by occupation -
118 of these different camps. A major sector of the worldwide banking
structure have been secretively, annually and historically camping together
as "The Lost Angels." It's like a virtual world in itself that's a cross
between an Ewok Village of Endor and a pseudo-mystical, closet queer
"Illuminati bathhouse." They even have "camp valets" which are male
prostitutes who accompany guests for both weeks.

Does that make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? Or that the campground is
lit by torches, has a mock pagan altar surrounded by a giant pentagram and
an "eternal flame" genie lamp in the middle that's been lit since the
1930's?Or that there's even a 30 foot high Buddha shrine thrown in for good
measure?

That's just the tip of the iceburg. The reason The Grove has been so
infamous is because the "Cremation of Care" ceremony. You might have heard
something in passing - some weird shit about an owl statue, some occult talk
before shrugging it off. Well, this centerpiece has been infiltrated and
filmed by Alex Jones of Infowars and twice by the BBC:

www.youtube.com/watch?andv=CTVTk3_lttw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHeP4OGZO0g

While many conspiracy types have bought this claim as if this is some
literal black magic rite, the more plausible answer is the one given to us
by the Bohemian Club itself. Once they couldn't hide it anymore, they
released a statement following the BBC infiltration. Basically, this weird
ritual I will describe was part of a larger play that went on in the late
1800's. The ritual was eventually separated from the larger play and used
as a party-initiating spectacle on the big first night.

So while these people look terrifying in their robes, this is more a "Fred
Flintstone in the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes" sort of thing. At least
theoretically, until you see some of the more disturbing photographs. In
fact, even in a cartoon vaudeville context, it's extremely creepy.

To kick-start the two-week party, our leaders gather around a man made lake
in the middle of The Grove. At the shoreline of this lake is a 40 foot
stone owl, which is the mascot of Bohemian Club. Dubbed "Moloch" by
conspiracy types (but actually called "The Owl of Bohemia" by club members)
this owl statue is terrifying looking - ominous, huge and half covered in
moss like some pagan black magic god. While the rest of the clubwatches
from wooden bleachers, about two dozen Grovers march out in druid-like
outfits holding lit torches.

They are cloaked in red KKK-like outfits and are carrying a funeral coffin
that is dubbed "care." Inside this coffin is the dummy of a human that
represents the Club's pent up "cares." It is placed under this monstrous
and gigantic owl statue. The show then begins. The owl speaks from
recording equipment rigged inside the hollow statue andrecites a creepy
sermon, laughing a mad laugh. Those in the druid hoods then set this coffin
on fire with their torches in what appears to be a mock human sacrifice.
Pyrotechnics then explode everywhere.

Now, perhaps it really is a "Water Buffaloes" thing, but that's not really
important. They can start wars, destroy the economy, crush our civil
liberties and the general populous expects it. But this thing? If we
convince even a small portion of the Right Wing, God-Fearing, Tea Partyin'
Christian masses that this is real, we have a wildfire on our hands. As
always, they'll see only what they want to see - namely, Satan incarnate, or
what have you.

Bottom line is it's freakish and damaging beyond all belief. And once this
thing gets entrenched in the national dialogue in a serious way, the
GinGrinch's of the world simply cannot talk their way out of it. No way -
it's the ultimate skeleton in their closet and we've built an international
coalition to relentlessly expose this.

Everything Bohemian Grove represents is in one microcosm all that is
inherently wrong about these individuals we've collectively deemed "The 1%"
and this is clear evidence of clandestine monopoly through 1% brotherhood.
Until these people are removed from power - until we finally cast off the
ancient, lingering chains of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, the World Bank and the
NWO in the broadest sense possible - we will never know peace. Your
children will never have a future. Natural time will never be restored. The
wars will not cease, because they are only meant to be sustained and never
won. They are not for the issues of terrorism or national security, but
rather highly crafted products of an international criminal cartel. OBAMA
and ROMNEY are the same person and to vote for them is to vote for the
Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Bushes.

Please join us this July:

OCCUPY BOHEMIAN GROVE: July 2012 // Monte RIO, CA // FAQ
c/o The Occupy Bohemian Grove PDX Committee ( @occupybhgrove )
www.scribd.com/doc/86505846/Occupy-Bohemian-Grove-July-2012

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Original Caption: Sidewalk Merchandise On Chicago's South Side. Many Of The City's Black Businessmen Started Small And Grew By Working Hard Today Chicago Is Believed To Be The Black Business Capital Of The United States. Black Enterprises Magazine Reported In 1973 That The City Had 14 Of The Top 100 Black Owned Businesses In The Country, One More Than New York City, 06/1973

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