By Earl Hoagberg
If the earliest settlers had prevailed, many of us would be living in "Granite City, Arizona," not Prescott, for that was the name the miners themselves gave to the array of lean-tos and shacks along Granite creek in 1864. The story of the founding of Arizona's first territorial capital 135 years ago, and the choice of Prescott as its name, is a fascinating chapter in the annals of frontier America.
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