A saloon in Charleston, 1885

Charleston is a ghost town in Pima County, Arizona. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Look up saloon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Pima County is located in the south central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. ... Official language(s) English Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Area  Ranked 6th  - Total 113,998 sq mi (295,254 km²)  - Width 310 miles (500 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 0. ...

It was occupied from the 1870s into the 1890s. The main commerce was milling silver ore mined in nearby Tombstone, Arizona. General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... Tombstone in year 1891 Tombstone is a city located in Cochise County, Arizona, USA, founded in 1879 in what was then the Arizona Territory. ...

It is located at 31.629122n / 110.174417w, on the banks of the San Pedro River, about 15 km southwest of Tombstone. The San Pedro River is a south to north running river, flowing from the northern Mexico state of Sonora, 140 miles north where it meets with the Gila River in south central Arizona. ...

External links

• "Charlston" entry at GhostTowns.com
• "Charleston" entry at clantongang.com

Coordinates: 31°37′55″N, 110°10′27″W Actually, Charleston is in Cochise country, it it approximately 10 miles southwest of Tombstone and 6 miles North East of Sierra Vista. Charleston is now within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservative area and is one of several ghost towns, Including Milleville, Fairbanks and Contention which served as mill towns for the silver mines during the silver boom in approxiamately 1880. All of these mill towns were located along the San Pedro to take advantage of that water source for their operations. The mines in Tombstone were flooded in 1888 and forced to discontinue operations. Charleston hung on until 1899 but, unlike Tombstone, the town too tough to die, Charleston was abandoned and is remembered as the town "too mean to live" Ike Clanton (villain of the Wyatt Erp, OK coral shootout)was a major land owner in Charleston, operating it's first hotel (Canvas at the time) and purchasing several lots, houses and most importantly saloons and liquor stores. The Clanton ranch site is actually located less than 2 miles to the South of Charleston (Still in the Riparian area) but, little of it remains. Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...