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| Arizona History
Old hotel hosts famed ghosts Yuma travelers on their way to Laughlin, Nev., seldom pass through Oatman these days. Using Highway 95 to get to the Nevada gambling town, they avoid the old village of Oatman, which is about 11 miles east of that route. Feb 3, 2007 Civil War immediately affected Fort Yuma It had become obvious to many that the South would secede from the Union if Abraham Lincoln was chosen as president. By the time he was elected despite Southern threats and took the oath of office on March 4, 1861, seven Southern states had already left the Union and another eight were considering leaving. Jan 27, 2007 Yuma prison complaints numerous in 1890 An inmate of Yuma's Territorial Prison wrote the following to a friend in 1886 according to the local Sentinel newspaper: Jan 20, 2007 Yuma prison held ex-Phoenix mayor Anton Leonard Meyer was born in Russia in 1851. The sources do not report the year that he immigrated to the United States, but by then he was already an adult who had learned telegraphy in his native country. Settling first in Washington, he found employment in the patent office, but soon after began working as a telegraph operator in Idaho. Jan 6, 2007 Movie comic Stan Laurel favored getting hitched in Yuma Readers who are old as this writer will remember movie comic Stan Laurel. Born in Scotland in 1890 where his father was a theater manager, he was given the name of Arthur Stanley Jefferson. Laurel was married four or five times, depending on how you count, with three of them happening here in Yuma. Dec 30, 2006 |
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