Bumble Bee
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Unknown Unknown citn402pb.jpg CI-TN-402 B&W 1200-0402-0002 citn402pb Print 4x6 Historic Photographs c. 1911 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Bumble Bee is a ghost town in the Bradshaw Mountains in Yavapai County, named for Bumble Bee Creek. There are several stories of how the town was name. One of them tell the tale of how the first prospectors, including Tom Saunders, entered the area and found a bumblebee nest full of honey in the cliffs along the creek, and named it Bumble Bee Creek. It was established in 1863 serving as a stagecoach stop run by a man named Mr. Bobo, on what was known as “the Phoenix road”, which was the main thoroughfare between Phoenix and Flagstaff. It became an outpost for the U. S. Cavalry, and a post office was established in 1879. It was originally known as Snyder Station named for W. W. Snyder, who purchased the place from Bobo around 1887. As the railroad pushed westward, it pushed the stagecoach out. Mining was also diminishing in the area; both of these reasons contributed to the collapse of Bumblebee.
Jeff Martin attempted to make the town a tourist attraction during the mid-1930’s and constructed several buildings. In the 1960’s, Charles Penn purchased the site and tried once again to establish a tourist attraction, but he died before it came to fruition.
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