Old Fort at Big Bug
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Unknown Unknown 1600.0364.0000.jpg M - 364 B&W 1600-0364-0000 m364p Stereograph Print 3.5x7.5 Historic Photographs 1890s Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Group at the Old Fort at Big Bug, Arizona Territory, c. 1890's.
The earliest photograph: a group of hearty miners pose at a place on Big Bug Creek called "The Fort." D. F. Mitchell was the photographer.
The area started with a gold placer in the Northeast slope of the Bradshaw Mountain range in the 1860s. The camp took its name from nearby Big Bug Creek and was home to about 100 people.
The camp opened under the name of Red Rock and was changed to Big Bug in 1881 because of the large bugs that appeared in the spring. Big Bug Deposit was a copper deposit near Mayer, it was 2,000 feet due north of Copper Mountain and about fifteen miles northeast of Prescott.
The Big Bug Smelter, between 1880 - 1890, produced over a million dollars' worth of placer gold and silver.
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