TOTAL WRECK

NAME: Total Wreck COUNTY: Pima ROADS: 4WD LEGAL INFO: T18S, R17E CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, fall

COMMENTS: Exercise extreme care around the many holes in the ground at this site. REMAINS: A few walls, many holes.

Total Wreck's post office was established August 12, 1881 and discontinued November 1, 1890. Total Wreck was discovered by John L. Dillon in 1879 and named it such because he thought the ledge the mine was on looked like a total wreck. A 70 ton mill was erected in 1881 and the town grew to 200 residents. There were about fifty houses, three stores, three hotels, four saloons, a butcher shop, and a lumber yard. A man once got into a shooting at Total Wreck and survived because the bullet lodged in a stack of love letters he had in his jacket. He later married the girl who wrote the letters!

Total Wreck Courtesy Arizona Historical Society Total Wreck Courtesy Tom McCurnin

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