Bisbee’s Queen Mine Tour is still the town’s biggest attraction
The Bisbee Queen Mine Tour gets more than 50,000 visitors each year, and has been pulling them in at this level for several decades. It’s the most popular destination in the southeastern Arizona city, with the highest numbers visiting in the first four months of the year. Bisbee and the Queen are almost synonymous. The [...]
Bisbee mines, history directly linked to development of America
It’s easy to see the development of towns of the Old West of the late 1800s as being related only to local issues, such as a railroad, a cattle trail or a silver mine, but despite its out-of-the-way location in extreme southern Arizona, Bisbee history exhibits a direct parallel to that the the nation. A [...]
Bisbee turquoise is one of best-known products of historic copper town
The southern Arizona mining town of Bisbee once had more than 20,000 residents and in a century of mining produced some 8 billion — with a “b” — pounds of copper metal, but to many people, it’s best known for the few hundred tons of turquoise that were uncovered here in that last quarter century [...]
Bisbee Mining Museum one of best small museums in the nation
Visitors are amazed to find a facility like the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum in rural Arizona. And they should be surprised. It’s not your typical small town facility. A few years ago, the Bisbee museum became the smallest institution to ask the Smithsonian Institution to participate in its affiliation program. That meant our community [...]
Bisbee Poll
What's your favorite activity in Bisbee?
- Antiquing (100%, 1 Votes)
- Visiting art galleries (0%, 0 Votes)
- Dining (0%, 0 Votes)
- Just relaxing (0%, 0 Votes)
- Taking tours (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 1
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