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2.5 Stars - 35 Opinions
1760 Sunridge Drive, Yuma, Arizona, 85364, United States
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Storehouse
Quartermaster's Office
Sanguinetti House Museum
The sanddunes, the prison, my house for a BBQ, a tour of the KTTI station. The weather during the winter, doing charitable events to help children, and serving the community. And of course, all the golf one can get in one day.
All water for the Yuma Territorial Prison came from the Colorado River. Inmates dug a network of tunnels at the base of the hill which would fill with river water. From there water was pumped up into 85,000 gallon granite-walled tank, also inmate construction.
In 1893, after continual pump breakdowns, prison officials and Yuma Water and Light came to an agreement:
water was piped to the prison in exchange for electricity produced by the prison's electric dynamo. Good deal? hehe.
The town of Castle Dome was established in 1864 after the discovery of silver ore. The town drew its name from the prominent rock formation of a mountain nearby. The town flourished breifly and opened a post office in 1875 which then closed in 1876. The town briefly came alive again in the early 1900s when mining companies found lead in the area. Many years later a man named Allen Armstrong purchased the land and converted one of the mines into a museum. He also rebuilt many buildings using old photographs as guides and recreated the town. Admission is $2. Castle Dome Mine Museum is open Sunday through Thursday from 9 AM to 5 PM. The Castle Dome Mine Museum is located 10 miles east of US Highway 95 from mile marker 55. It is between the towns of Yuma and Quartzsite. The rock formation in the middle of the main picture is Castle Dome Mountain.
The Arizona Historical Society Century House Museum and Gardens is close to down town. It is a big name for a nice little museum. The house has period furnishings and museum exhibits about the Spanish explorers. E.F. Sanguinetti originally built the house. He had gardens and aviaries. There are still gardens here and a small aviary with some birds.
One of the later addistions to Castle Dome came after the mines reopened for the mining of lead. This was after the invention of the automobile so the town needed a gas station. The gas station included a small cafe.
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