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Willcox, AZ: Two Choice Tokens (117989)

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Willcox, AZ: Two Choice Tokens  (117989)
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1) A. P. / Willcox // Good For / A 5c / Cigar. Round, br. 25mm. R-10. A. P(owers). John Powers , a well known mining man. 2) "For Hauling / One Load / J. Liberman & Co. // reverse blank. Brass, rectangular, heavy. R-8.

Merchants in the Willcox area were wealthy, as supplier of goods to the Military forts, and surrounding ranches. It was a shipping point of supplies, for the military forts. Willcox is named after Orlando B. Willcox, the General from the Army that arrived in the former Apache community. The Apache tribe had been moved out of Cochise to San Carlos,. Gen. Willcox was the Commander of the Department of Military of 1878-1882. He arrived in 1880 by train to establish the community . It was an area that built up the railroad, and housed Fort Grant. The Army forts in the area were ordered to be burnt down by the government to prevent the Confederates from overtaking the area. The area boomed with mines for copper and ore. Liberman was a freightman and made a fortune doing hauls It was a 30 mile round trip. The community if rife with history, as later in the late 1800s, Geronimo escaped San Carlos, and more death, and Indian battles with the Apaches, continued ,until Geronimo was captured and shipped to Florida in 1886. Frederick Remington the artist, also frequented the community.

Provenance: Bart Landinger Arizona Token Collection
Country (if not USA):
State: Arizona
City/County: Willcox
Date: 1880-1900s