MCCABE

NAME: McCabe
COUNTY: Yavapai
ROADS: 2WD
LEGAL INFO: T13N, R1E
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime
COMMENTS: Not far from the Ironite factory. Stay clear of current mining operations.
REMAINS: Some mining equipment and the cemetary.

McCabe's post office was established December 31, 1897 and was discontinued October 31, 1917. All that is left today at McCabe is some mining equipment and the cemetary with headstones still readable. Approximately 600 people lived here and McCabe even had a six bed hospital. McCabe was plagued with bad luck. First, there were several fires, one of which burned 14 buildings on July 5,1900. Then, a small pox epidemic in 1901 necessitaed a quarantine barrier. 1913 marked the closing of the mine and the town slowly died. McCabe was one of the few towns to actually have a telephone line running to Prescott.


Gravestone at McCabe


McCabe Ruins
Courtesy Charles Blake

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