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Another shot from near the visitors centre
Kingman Powerhouse Museum
Bronze Memorial Statue at County Courthouse
Little Red School House, Kingman, AZRailroad Town
Although the area is dotted with mining ghost towns and soldiers at Fort Mojave went prospecting here in their off-duty hours, Kingman, Arizona located in a natural basin, surrounded by basaltic hills, was established not as a mining camp, but because of the railroad.
In 1880, Lewis Kingman surveyed along the Atlantic and Pacific right of way between Needles and Albuquerque. By 1883 the track was completed and the name was changed from Middleton to Kingman. At the time of the building of Boulder (now Hoover) Dam, Kingman had the advantage of being located on the railroad and on U.S. 66.
