Bisbee Arizona Painting is a painting by Bob and Nadine Johnston which was uploaded on September 11th, 2013.
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Bisbee Arizona Painting
Artist
Bob and Nadine Johnston
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Bisbee is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, 82 mi (132 km) southeast of Tucson. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 6,177.[1] The city is the county seat of Cochise County
Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine.
In 1929, the county seat was moved from Tombstone, Arizona, to Bisbee, where it remains.
Mining in the Mule Mountains proved quite successful: in the early 20th century the population of Bisbee soared. Incorporated in 1902, by 1910 its population swelled to 9,019 and it sported a constellation of suburbs, including Warren, Lowell, and San Jose, some of which had been founded on their own (ultimately less successful) mines. In 1917, open pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the heavy copper demand due to World War I.
High quality turquoise was a by-product of the copper mining and has been promoted as Bisbee Blue. Bisbee is noted for the variety of copper minerals and the high-quality specimens that have been taken from its mines. Bisbee specimens can be found in museums worldwide. Cuprite, aragonite, wulfenite, malachite, azurite, and galena are just a few of the minerals that have been found underneath the town.
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September 11th, 2013
