Maurine E. Sanborn
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Maurine E. Sanborn (b. 1897 – d. 1970) was born March 18, 1897 and died January 8, 1970. She is buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Handwritten on the back of both photographs is “Stanton, Arizona.”
Stanton sprang to life as part of the 1863 Rich Hill gold strike. An 11-room hotel, the stage stop and dance hall still stand along Antelope Creek between Congress and Yarnell on County Road 109, 50 miles northwest of Phoenix. Originally named Antelope Station, it was renamed Stanton in 1896. Stanton is owned today by the Lost Dutchman Mining Association, which runs an RV park there.
Maurine Sanborn lived at the ghost town ruins of Stanton for many years with her uncle, the miner George Upton, who had many claims in the area. Following his death in 1962 at the age of 99, she remained at Stanton where she would entertain sightseers with colorful stories of the area.
Sources: Goldmountaintrading.com, American Pioneer and Cemetery Research Program/Stanton, AZ, Find A Grave, Book: Arizona Gold Gangster by Parker Anderson.
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