Tour of Historic BISBEE, ARIZONA | Queen Mine, Mining Historic Museum, Inn at Castle Rock & MORE!
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- The town of Bisbee, Arizona has such a rich history of mining, but what is it like today? We take a quick trip through this small town to see where history and modern-day collide.
Bisbee, Arizona came on the map around 1877 when U.S. army scouts were searching for a group of Apache in the area. What they stumbled upon was water and indications of rich minerals in the hills of the area.
What followed was prospectors coming to stake out claims and soon Bisbee was known as the "Queen of the Copper Camps." Millions of gold and copper, along with silver, lead, and zinc, were pulled from the ground and Bisbee flourished.
The Queen Mine remains open to visitors providing tours 1500 feet deep into its mine tunnels offering a unique experience into what mining was like and involved during its height.
For even more insight into mining and life for citizens in Bisbee Arizona during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum provides numerous displays, artifacts, and exhibits. The Smithsonian-affiliated museum resides in one of the oldest buildings in Bisbee if the exhibits weren't enough history for you.
And for those wanting to immerse themselves where the history began, the Inn at Castle Rock (www.theinnatcastlerock.com/) has 14 uniquely themed rooms available for visitors to the town of Bisbee. Within the inn is a well rumored to be the site where mining into the rock for the rich minerals began. This quirky inn offers plenty of hospitality and old charm for guests.
Outside of history, Bisbee is a town with a thriving art community with plenty of shopping and dining. You really can find it all in Bisbee!
VIDEO FILMED: 12/03/2021
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00:00 History of Bisbee
01:43 Inn at Castle Rock
06:31 Downtown Bisbee Tour
09:47 Copper Queen Hotel
11:13 Downtown Bisbee Tour Con't
12:49 Bisbee Mining & Historic Museum
17:07 Queen Mine Tour
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Welcome to the Cactus Atlas! We are Glenn and Amy and invite you to join us as we visit all sorts of locations across the American West. We tour both natural and man-made attractions.
Our base of operations is in the Phoenix, AZ area. We do a lot of hiking and day trips as well as campground reviews, and hope that we will be a great resource if you are planning a trip to the American West. We also hope to delight you with our exciting adventures!
Loved seeing this. I was born in Bisbee. It almost died down to a ghost town when the main mine closed down, back in the 60's. Some hippies from California moved into the housing provided by the mine after work at the mine dwindled down. I live in Northern California now, sure do miss Bisbee. 💜💜💜
Happy to provide a glimpse into Bisbee for you! 😄 Thanks for watching and commenting! We appreciate it.
What a fun destination Bisbee looks to be. So much cool history.
It's a great little place to stop and poke around for a while. 😄
Thank you , that was AMAZING !!!
You are so welcome! 😄
Love Bisbee!❤
Such a fun town, isn't it? 😊
We visited Bisbee in January 2023 the amazing thing is we stayed in the Geronimo room. ,Its easy to fall in love with this cool little town. Thank you for the video.
How awesome! We agree too. We both love Bisbee. It has everything! Charm and history! 😊
My brother and I stayed at the Castle rock inn a couple weeks ago. We just wanted to check out the town because we had some time to kill. And then we ended up staying there a second night. My room was decorated with one of everything from the “oriental“ store in the mall. And my brothers room was surfer themed. The owners were super nice and laid-back. The place definitely has a charm about it. Quite eclectic.
Oh my gosh, that's so awesome! That place is just a lot of fun and quirky... loads to find and discover. 😊
Great Video! The RED building used to be French Blue. I lived in it...alone in 1973. It was then sold along with the Copper Queen Hotel by Steve and Marcia Hutchinson. The "hippies" were actually very wealthy college grads who smoked pot and opened some "head shops", artisian shops displaying their art and pottery. Some married locals and assimulated into the general population. Most left. Original family members come and go...Bisbee High School alumni keep in touch and return for high school reunuions. Drugs and alcohol were the downfall of many over the years. Sadly, its no longer the same since new comers took over and old timers have passed away. 😢 To get a good idea of what it was like watch the film "Violent Saturday" which used locals as extras. You'll see downtown Main Street hasn't changed.
Fascinating! We will have to check that film out. Thanks for the recommendation! 😄👍
Just saw sign for Killer Bee Guy's store. Reed and crew are awesome.
thank you very much for that Glenn and Amy. I'm researching about my great grand uncle Tom Higgins, who was one of those first prospectors in Bisbee (or Mule Gulch as it was known then), he was a child of the irish famine with little education who eventually made his fortune mining in Bisbee, going on to commission the Higgins Building in downtown LA. I'm trying to write his story, so seeing first hand stuff of Bisbee and the incredible mines has been inspiring. Nice job!
Oh, how awesome! What wonderful family history you have! Glad that we could bring a little of present day views of Bisbee to you. 😄
OMG! Haha! Geronimo "judging you" cracked me up! I just love your videos. I have plans now to visit the places you have shown us. Being in Durango, Colorado...it is just a hop skip and a jump to most of the locations you have explored. I had NO idea how much I have not discovered , living in the Southwest! How fun you have made it again!
Yup! From Durango I would say a great deal of interesting and awesome things are just around the corner (so to speak). So so happy to have inspired and have some happy adventures! 😄
My brother used to work for Inn at Castle Rock. It was definitely a neat little Inn. I learned a lot about it from him when he worked there.
Oh fun! Lots of history associated with that place. 😄
Such a wonderful old town as well as buildings and always fun to see old time buildings while they still stand. Glad you got to visit the mine and gave us a fun little tour.
We want to go back. There's a TON of history in Bisbee we haven't touched on... YET. 😉
Nick Sawardson's new career is interesting
I love your style of video, so engaging and entertaining
Oh thank you! 😄
Hey Glen, Brian here from South East Louisiana.. can't wait to retire in Bisbee..
It's a great town we both love. 😄
@@CactusAtlas and whatever you do don't ever go to New Orleans I think Beirut is a much more peaceful place I'm sure
That mine tour was very cool 😎 What a neat town 😃
That was the best mine tour I ever did!
What a neat historic town! I would LOVE to visit!!
It's one of the better still existing old mining towns we've filmed for sure!
Great tour! Can't wait to see it for ourselves; thanks for giving us a taste before we go.Love your enthusiasm for the places you go.
Thank you! It's our pleasure! So happy to provide any help and hope you have a fantastic visit in the future! 😊
Am from Tombstone Arizona. This is Cool.
I love all video keep videos coming
Thanks! We don't plan on stopping. 😄
Nice video. Good stuff.
Thanks!
Wow, GREAT VLOG!!!
We walked the same path as you walked and spent some time in that museum, also had a wonderful lunch at the Copper Queen! Had a great brew at a awesome micobrewery close to there, did the mine shop tour as my family had no interest in going into the mine......
Brought back some awesome memories during our 2 days at Tombstone and Bisbee, thanks for the vlog.....
It's an awesome trip. Thanks so much for sharing and stopping by. 😄
Your video is so very cool. I learned so much. I have wanted to visit Bisbee for a long time. I believe a very "spiritual" person rattled your hotel room door. Thank you.
Thank you so much! We hope you have an opportunity to visit one day. For such a small little town, it really is rich in history and places to get lost in.
So very interesting 🤠
Great video. Love Bisbee. I'm a big baseball fan and a lot of people don't realize this but Bisbee has the oldest ballpark in the United States.
We actually heard that before heading there but didn't have time to check more places out. Next time! 😅
I’ve been wanting to visit Bisbee for a few years but have never done it. This year I will get there. Thanks for the video.
Anytime! Happy to help. 😄
Thanks man! I am heading out to Bisbee in two weeks and this definitely helped expand my must see list. Safe travels.
Thanks! There's a few other stops we made there in a more recent video that are great to add to a list as well. Happy to help! 😄
I had visited Bisbee in 1970, but only visited the Lavendar Pit Mine and later visited some fellow soldiers who were guests at the Bisbee Jail. Thank you for the detailed visit.
I lived in Bisbee ! My dad work in that mine. Till it closed . We move to AR where my mom was born.
That's really cool! Thank you for sharing that. 😄
Just started watching your channel in the last few weeks, loving it...
We are heading all through that region of the US, in September, and to get a really good perspective of the area & towns etc is great. We have so many ideas & things to see now that we didn't know about before. Keep going
We have a few more videos from this trip yet to release that could provide more ideas. Really can't go wrong in that area though. Gorgeous place! 😄
Stayed at The Inn at Castle Rock in 2018 with our son (16 yr old) and husband. We loved the hotel and Bisbee - can’t wait to go back.
We have a special place in our hearts for Bisbee and can't wait to go back either. Makes for a great weekend getaway. 😊
@@CactusAtlas how lucky you are to live so close! I am in Northern Alberta, Canada - but we plan on retiring soon and travelling around the Southern States checking out all the neat little places!
😂😂😂 the mine tour😂 loved the voice and laughs.. this looks so fun!
Hahaha! That's Glenn's humor. I had a hard time with that segment b/c of the noise of the train so I handed that section off to him. I think it came out great! 😂
My Grandfather worked at that mine in the early 50s
We're hearing from a lot of people who had family in the area or who worked in the mine. Really fantastic to hear! Hopefully, we helped bring a glimpse into a world they knew once. 😊
@@CactusAtlas Thank you very much.
Good video.
Thanks!
It was a Pepsi advert. Not a coke.. lol.. I love watching your documentary style
Thank you so much! 😄
The “wildest ride in the wilderness” spiel …. Hmmmm…. That sounds so familiar. Almost like I’ve heard it before! 🐭
We can't help it. While we love the vast expanse of the desert, we're also big kids at heart. 😊
@@CactusAtlas ha ha love it and embrace it!!
I stayed at the Copper Queen Hotel in the early 90s and yes. It is an old hotel and may not get the best reviews but, it is Historical, and, that is why I stayed there.
We're the same... LOVE old historical hotels for that history. 😊
Loved the queen mine tour! Also laughed at “their first order of business was finding water” me, an Arizona resident: no joke 😆🤷♀️
It feels like such a rare find to be able to go in an old mine and have be told all that information by men experienced with mining. As for the water bit... might be us again in a couple decades! 😂😟
Bisbee is awesome! I love all of those stairs L O L. 😁👌🏽 The mine tour! I haven’t done it yet. We did Halloween there and it was so cool. Took a haunted tour. Our friends are building an Earthship out there. Have you ever seen an Earthship?
I imagine Halloween there is awesome! We did a haunted tour around Jerome yeaaaars ago near Halloween season. Was a lot of fun!
cool!!
Thanks! 😊👍
Never seen Coke spelled Pepsi before.....
good video lotsa neat old stuff
😂 Yeaaaaah... One of the things the mind sees and mouth goes with until it is too late. Haha.
Enjoyed your video:) 🌵
Thank you! 😊
Very interesting. It makes me want to visit Bisbee. The Castle Rock Inn looks like a nice place, and I think it was probably plain old human noise you heard during the night.😁
Oh we're pretty sure it was human caused as well. It's just fun to toy around with the idea it wasn't. 😅
We also heard strange noises ,THE Inn AT Castle Rock ,just saying there may be something to it.
I like Bisbee much better than Jerome. However both are not to miss.
We couldn't agree more. Jerome is not to be missed as you said, but something about Bisbee feels a little MORE. 👍
Regarding the shaking door…an earthquake, even from farther away, can shake a door like that.
I'm certain there is a logical explanation. Vibration, confused guest, something like that. 😅
Nice video, I want to visit that hotel and mine now. By the way, I think the sign was a Pepsi Cola sign.
The hotel is really cool. Actually, there's a ton of really interesting ones around there that we need to check out in the future. As for the mural, yes it was. We noticed when editing the video. Oops!
now you need to go down strate down 1200 ft in a mine yes i have worked under ground in my younger days
🤠👻👍
Last time there was 1971
Was it much colder down in the mine versus the surface?
It wasn't noticeably colder inside at that time of year (December). Probably worthy of a light jacket but otherwise not uncomfortable.
Enjoy trip but my grandpa bought me cokes fer a nickel in early 60 s I'm 65 5th generation Texan
You could get away with world famous ..... well sort of famous, but I am watching from Aus.
Chicken, you should have checked the door!
Any Turquoise history?
There is turquoise history there, yes, but it isn't something we've researched at this time.
@@CactusAtlas Roger that, Bisbee Turquoise is some of the best in the world they say....
Great video, but whatever you do DON'T Google "glory hole" LOL
Hahaha! We don't have to but might be good advice for anyone who missed the joke. 😅
did you meet Doug Stanhope?
Nope, can’t say I did.
Enjoyed the narration and your videography, but maybe fewer head shots of you and more of the scenery you are viewing.
Music overpowering, hard to hear your voice. It's the fashionable thing to do but it's also a drag. Otherwise, fine video. Faces are new to me.)
It's an older video for us. Hopefully, we've improved since then. 😅
Sorry, Mr. Atlas. Your video is perfect, as they all are. I was typing that comment for another video when it ended abruptly and somehow that comment switched over to your video, which played right after. My fault. Please disregard my criticism. I'm quite embarrassed. Love your channel. ❤️
Hey bud. The definition of renegade indian is a misnomer . It is offensive to bativws.
The apache were tge dog warriors tio save their way of life.
In civeque the calvary shot the shaman on the reservation . And rsstrared war.
Tou do not shoit shaman
Don't need the music.
You probably won't like our channel then! 😂 In all seriousness, we get a lot of positive feedback about our videos (music included), so if this one isn't your thing, I wish you luck in finding ones that are. 😊 Thanks for watching.
I enjoyed your video. It was well done. Why exactly did you need to wear a mask? It provides zero protection for anybody and especially over facial hair. Why are people still so dumbed down about these things? Nobody should risk their own health wearing these things, which per studies indicate can result in deep lung infections. I have some hearing loss and sometimes it's impossible for me to understand folks without reading their lips. I've been called rude when I ask people to remove their mask so I can understand them. Lately I've noticed more and more folks (either 20-somethings or elderly) are wearing them again as a sign of compliance and submission I guess. Perhaps these are the same folks that believe good health comes from big Pharma. Sad to see your compliance. Mask wearing is certainly not in the spirit of the old west, now is it?
This was filmed in Dec 2021. The museum required them to be worn at that time in order to enter as we stated in the video. No mask, no entry, no filming of the museum for viewers. 🤷♀️
since they require masks then they loose my business.
That’s why I carry a gun haha . In case people want to visit me at night . The Coca Cola energy with cherry 🍒 was good haha