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Ghost town at the foot of the Dragoon Mountains ~15 miles NE of Tombstone, founded 1909 in a copper rush and named for Courtland Young of the Great Western Mining Company. Briefly touted as Arizona's most promising copper vein; four companies (Great Western, Calumet & Arizona, Copper Queen, Leadville) raced in, but each hit the same barren limestone ridge ~300 ft down. Population hit ~2,000 before a 1921 mass exodus.
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- ·Coords from Wikipedia (31.77000, -109.80861). Namesake: Courtland Young. The limestone-ridge problem (from 1917) doomed the mines. Post office Mar 13, 1909 – Sep 30, 1942. Remains: the Courtland jail is the only structure still standing; plus scattered building remnants, sidewalks, mine sites, and a cemetery. On the Ghost Town Trail with Gleeson and Pearce. 5+ specific facts.
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