Courtland Arizona Territory Ghost Town, Part 02: The abandoned jail and old storefronts
Volume 02:
In this video we tour the old jail and part of the main street where the old grocery store and possibly the car dealership was located.
Notes since the video was made:
The bars and doors from both the Courtland and Gleeson jails were repurposed for the Benson jail. Apparently, the same parts were repurposed earlier from the Bisbee jail for Courtland.
The beams in the concrete roof of the jail were old railroad track.
Courtland was another mining town from the old west. Like many of these towns, it had many amenities and was quite big and successful. It is located just on the other side of the mountains from Gleeson Arizona; just a few miles.
Like most of these towns, it had quite a rich history. I thought I knew quite a bit about the place, but as you will see in the videos, I knew quite a bit less than I thought.
A 1927 Sanborn map of the town can be found here:
http://www.gleesonarizona.com/maps/Courtland_1927.pdf
Maps, photos, news articles from Courtland can be found at the Library of Congress:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/about-this-collection/
Special thanks to Ernie for giving me some good information, check out his website:
http://azbackcountryadventures.com/
Joe Bono, the owner of the Gleeson jail has a very informative website about all the towns in the area. There are pictures of areas on private property that we didn't visit, like the power plant.
Joe grew up in Gleeson and opens the jail/museum every first Saturday of the month, definitely check it out if you are in the area.
http://www.gleesonarizona.com/
Here are some links with pictures etc of areas that are on private property in Courtland as well as other information:
http://azbackcountryadventures.com/court.htm
Links about all things "the old west" from mining to railroads to Tombstone:
Tombstone Area Ghost Towns:
https://www.wyattearpexplorers.com/
Western Mining History:
https://westernmininghistory.com/
Abandoned Rails:
http://www.abandonedrails.com/
Forgotten Railways, Roads & Places:
https://www.frrandp.com/p/the-map.html
Friends of the san pedro river:
http://sanpedroriver.org/wpfspr/
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