Wickenburg, Arizona Wickenburg, Arizona Official seal of Wickenburg, Arizona Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Wickenburg, Arizona is positioned in the US Wickenburg, Arizona - Wickenburg, Arizona Website Town of Wickenburg, Arizona Wickenburg is a town primarily positioned in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with a portion in neighboring Yavapai County.
5 Historic properties in Wickenburg Grant's Stage Station, Wickenburg, 1873 or 1874 The Wickenburg region with much of the Southwest became part of the United States by the 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
In 1862, a gold strike on the Colorado River near present-day Yuma brought American prospectors, who searched for minerals throughout central Arizona.
Together with the miners, they established the town of Wickenburg in 1863.
Wickenburg was also the home of Jack Swilling, who prospected in the Salt River Valley in 1867.
Swilling conducted irrigation accomplishments in that region and helped ground the town/city of Phoenix, Arizona.
As the town grew, conflicts advanced with the Yavapai Native American tribe, who rejected a treaty signed by their chiefs, effectively breaking the treaty.
By 1869, an estimated 1000 Yavapai and 400 pioneer had been killed, with many on both sides fleeing to safer areas.
With the end of the war, the Union troops and small-town volunteers forced the Yavapai onto a reservation, where they remain to this day.
However, Yavapai recalcitrants remained for years, and raids on stage-coaches, isolated farm homes, and periodic raids on villages kept the region in a constant state of tension.
Finally, following a several murders of Yavapai chiefs allied with America by insurgent Yavapai warriors, hostile warrior tribal leaders mobilized the entire Yavapai warrior band into a massive assault on the major American settlement of Wickenburg and massacred or drove out much of the American populace.:39 46 Sonoran Desert outside Wickenburg, Arizona In 1872, in response to the assassination of friendly Yavapai chiefs, the take-over of the entire Yavapai country and its reservation by hostile elements, and with most of the American region under continual penetrating raids by Yavapai warrior bands, General George Crook began an all-out campaign against the Yavapai, with the aim of forcing the insurgent Yavapai warrior bands into a decisive battle and the removal of Yavapai pioneer from American territory.
After a several months of forced marches, feints, and pitched skirmishes by combined Arizona territorial militia and US Army Cavalry, Crook forced the Yavapai bands into a single decisive battle.
In December 1872, the Battle of Salt River Canyon in the Superstition Mountains decisively routed the Yavapai, and inside a year most Yavapai resistance was crushed.
Having broken their treaty with America a several times, with most of the friendly and allied chiefs killed by insurgent Yavapais, who also killed Americans, Crook was authorized to enter into new negotiations with the aim of reducing the size of the Yavapai reservation and removing it to an region more readily cordoned off from American communities and their communication lines.
They were obliged to surrender their firearms, move to the Fort Verde Reservation, accept a permanent Army garrison on their territory, accept direct administration by American Bureau of Indian Affairs agents and commissioners, have trade firmly emplaced in the hands of American government agents, and be regulated by an Indian Police force picked and trained by the US Army and later Arizona Territorial officers.
After only two years on the Rio Verde Reservation, however, small-town officials interval concerned about the Yavapais' continued hostility, success, and self-sufficiency, so they persuaded the federal government to close their reservation and move all the Yavapai to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.
The infant town of Wickenburg went through many trials and tribulations in its first decades, surviving the Indian Wars including repeating Indian raids, outlaws, mine closures, drought, and a disastrous flood in 1890 when the Walnut Creek Dam burst, killing nearly 70 residents.
The historic train depot today homes the Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce and Visitor's Center.
As of 2007, however, only freight trains pass through Wickenburg; passenger trains ended their runs in the 1960s.
Along the town's chief historic district, early businesses assembled many structures that still form Wickenburg's downtown area.
Route 60) brought even more tourists, making Wickenburg the Dude Ranch Capital of the World.
Rancho de los Caballeros is now a golf resort, while Remuda has been converted into the nation's biggest eating disorder treatment facility and is now Wickenburg's biggest employer.
The Hassayampa improve became a vital contributor to the US accomplishment amid World War II when the Army trained thousands of men to fly gliders at a newly constructed airfield west of Wickenburg.:145 After the war, undivided pioneers and home builders advanced Wickenburg into a typical American community.
Wickenburg is positioned at 33 57 54 N 112 44 53 W (33.964881, -112.747936). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 11.5 square miles (29.8 km ), all of it land.
According to the Maricopa Association of Governments Municipal Planning Areas and Incorporated Areas Map PDF, the municipal planning region for Wickenburg includes a much larger region of territory than any other planning region in the Phoenix metro area.
If the town/city were to annex the entire region inside its planning area, it would turn into the biggest city by region in Arizona, surpassing Phoenix.
Climate data for Wickenburg, Arizona (1981 2010) The ethnic makeup of the town was 91.76% White, 0.28% Black or African American, 1.18% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 4.53% from other competitions, and 1.77% from two or more competitions.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 19.9% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 20.4% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 28.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
In the late 19th century, there were so many questionable quarrying promotions around Wickenburg, that the joke interval that whoever drank from the Hassayampa River was thenceforth unable to speak the truth.
There are various properties in the town of Wickenburg which are considered historical and have been encompassed either in the National Register of Historic Places or the listings of the Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce. The following are images of some of these properties with a short description of the same.
Further information: List of historic properties in Wickenburg, Arizona Henry Wickenburg List of historic properties in Wickenburg, Arizona The Town on the Hassayampa: A History of Wickenburg, Arizona.
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