QUIJOTOA

NAME: Quijotoa COUNTY: Pima ROADS: 4WD LEGAL INFO: T15S, R2E CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, fall

COMMENTS: 20 miles NW of Sells. REMAINS: Nothing.

Quijotoa's post office was established December 11, 1883 and discontinued August 31, 1942. Discovered in 1883 by Alexander McKay, the mine responsible for Quijotoa was not all it was played up to be. Several thousand people flocked to the town but only a few years later it was deserted. There were over 20 saloons yet no jail. Lawbreakers were tied to a tree and shipped off the next morning to Tucson. A fire destroyed much of the town in 1889 and today, nothing remains.

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