Ghost towns and tourist towns

We decided to visit some old mining towns today – Courtland and Gleeson. They aren’t too far from Huachuca City or Tombstone, our ultimate destination. Courtland had obviously been a big mining district. There were tailing piles and mining roads scattered across the hillsides.

4E9E7A97-A68A-4215-AF84-64B328CE688F
Lots of rock buildings (sorry for the bad lighting)
ABA2B853-EE31-48CB-9E0C-1B7CD00F663D
Adobe buildings too
772D8EDF-1F8E-40F2-A83F-9D60D83380BB
This one looked scary!
AB77E2B7-02FA-4437-9BE5-FAE3A9A61FA5
Distant views
122EAC6B-36A5-4A03-BDF7-E2607C9DDAFD
Yet more buildings, or at least their footings
300EDC3C-5DE3-4705-BBB8-EAC1F582B6E5
Mine tailings. This one is still active. See the tiny white spec?

Now for Gleeson. Not as many pictures because a number of people still live in this community. There were even a number of mailboxes.

F5B4C86B-BDF8-412D-A619-51652BDD4C26
This was a big building
17C0EF8F-3F35-4388-8D41-5B8981349CC2
Leftovers of the mill and headframe
439927B0-C87F-4237-9D5A-AE1E52E9EE71
Way at the top of a hill. Maybe a church?

After the ghost towns we headed to Tombstone. We picked a great day without many visitors since most people must have been planning on football. Lots of neat old buildings plus lots of relatively tasteful tourist shops. I was pleasantly surprised. We did take a stagecoach ride though. The driver/narrator was a hoot and deserved his tip at the end.

80C0D81F-E8C9-49FD-BCCD-F02CE4AE3299

This evening I pressed and sandwiched the Quilts for Kids project. I even got it quilted on my Bernina! It was the first time I have done free motion quilting on an entire quilt on the Bernie, and it went pretty well. Of course the quilt wasn’t big, about 40×45”. I will post a completed picture when I get the binding on.

Oh, and the Eagles won the game.