By Kristen Kauffman
There were no string lights then, so Esther Lee Cherry Henderson, in her oral history from the Sharlot Hall Museum Research Center, remembered candles on the huge tree, with toys hanging all over it and piled under. She was only four-and-a-half years old in 1915, but this rancher’s daughter remembered this Community Christmas Tree in Camp Verde. “Santa called each one’s name, and we had to go up front and get our gift. I got a cowboy doll.”
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