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Photo courtesy of the Navjao County Historical SocietyThe Arizona Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ACMI) only stayed in Woodruff for about six years. When the railroad came in August 1888, the store was moved to Holbrook and the empty building was purchased by the town of Woodruff. The two boys pictured in this undated photo in front of the empty building are Leo Gardner and Ross Brinkerhoff.

Our Heritage in Photographs

Mar 28
Photo courtesy of the Old Trails MuseumIn the early days the young railroader created rivalries with the other railroad towns. They formed football and baseball teams, calling themselves the Blue Devils, the Cardinals and the Meteorites. Rather than play on grass fields they played in dirt fields and rode the train to places like Ash Fork and Williams to compete. This photo is of the Santa Fe apprentice football team in Winslow in 1927. Among those on the team were Ted McBride, Ray Blumlein, Bill Miley and Manuel Sandoval.

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Mar 21
Photo courtesy of Amber FishSome of the original settlers of Joseph City, including (left to right) Mary Richards, Emma Hansen, Sophia McLaws and James Edward Shelley, posed for this photograph in the late 1930s. Descendents from each of these individuals still live in the area.

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Mar 14
Photo courtesy of Old Trails MuseumThe railroad had built a power plant just east of La Posada to provide utilities for the hotel and the depot. When the Santa Fe division offices were moved into the then-closed hotel in 1960, a new power source was installed so the old smoke stack was knocked down on Dec. 23, 1963, in front of many spectators.

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Mar 7
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Photo courtesy of the Old Trails MuseumA well-known man around Winslow for many years was Benjamin Franklin Ketchum, known as Frank, who was often called upon to extract automobiles from the Little Colorado River. While serving as town marshal in the early 1900s, Ketchum was involved in a notorious shooting that prompted his reputation as “lawman Ketchum, who sure can catch ‘em.”

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Feb 28
Photo courtesy of Old Trails MuseumLife in a raw new town was enhanced by a variety of entertainment. Often a traveling circus would arrive in a special train that crisscrossed the West throughout the year. This photo, taken in 1911 along Front Street in Winslow, shows a circus arriving in town in a caravan that could include a brass band, palm readers, hypnotists, trained animals, acrobats and circus clowns.

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Feb 14
Photo courtesy of the Old Trails MuseumStanding in front of the old Winslow Harvey House in 1918, these young women wore the distinctive black and white uniforms that identified them as Harvey Girl waitresses. On the left is an Indian woman selling her pottery to hotel guests and train passengers. Third from the right is Juanita Gale Creswell, known locally as “Cecil.” She is the only known Harvey Girl to become a cattle rustler.

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Jan 10
Historic pic. Holbrook blacksmith

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Historic pic. Holbrook blacksmith

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Historic pic Holbrook Arizona co op

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