Oatman
Posted by: leadhiker
N 34° 58.069 W 114° 35.847
11S E 719344 N 3872110
Oatman was founded around 1906 as part of Arizona's richest gold mining area. Oatman was reborn in the late 1960's and early 1970's as a tourist town.
Waymark Code: WM92C4
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2010
Views: 56
Inscription:
Fifteen miles east in the Black Mountains, is the historic Oatman mining district. Many original buildings still exist in the ghost town site. The Tom Reed United Eastern Gold Road and other mines produced more than thirty million dollars of gold from the early 1900's into the 1930's.
Marker Name: Oatman
Type of history commemorated: Place
County: Mohave
Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker: unknown
Year placed: unknown
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