Colorful Houses Old Miners Shacks Bisbee Arizona - Higgledy Piggledy Town

by Rebecca Korpita

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Colorful Houses Old Miners Shacks Bisbee Arizona - Higgledy Piggledy Town

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Rebecca Korpita

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Digital Art - Photograph - Digital Painting

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Colorful houses, many of them old miners shacks meander up and down the hills in the ever-quirky artist town of Bisbee AZ. Connected by intriguing stairs that wind up around and beside the tiny houses, every turn is an adventure and unique discovery. This is digital art titled Higgledy Piggledy Town done from an original photograph by Rebecca Korpita. Please note that the blowup feature allows the viewer to see the image at a much larger size than offered, therefore the actual image will be much sharper.

Bisbee AZ is an old miner's town located 90 miles southeast of Tucson and nestled amongst the Mule Mountains. The community was founded in 1880 and named after Judge DeWitt Bisbee, a financial backer of the Copper Queen Mine.

Once known as the Queen of the Copper Camps, this Old West mining camp proved to be one of the richest mineral sites in the world, producing nearly three million ounces of gold and more than eight billion pounds of copper, not to mention the silver, lead and zinc that came from the rich Mule Mountains. By the early 1900s, the Bisbee community was the largest city between St. Louis and San Francisco.

Bisbee, with a population of over 20,000 people in the early 1900�s, had become one of the most cultured cities in the Southwest. Despite its culture, however, the rough edges of the mining camps could be found in notorious Brewery Gulch, with its saloons and shady ladies. Brewery Gulch, which in its heyday boasted upwards of 47 saloons and was considered the "liveliest spot between El Paso and San Francisco". Bisbee offered other recreational pursuits in that it was home to the state�s first community library, a popular opera house, the state�s oldest ball fields and the state�s first golf course.

In 1908, a fire ravaged most of Bisbee's commercial district along Main Street, leaving nothing but a pile of ashes, but the residents of Bisbee quickly began reconstruction and by 1910, most of the district had been rebuilt and remains completely intact today.

Bisbee was a thriving community until the large scale mining operations became unprofitable in the mid 1970�s. As mining employees left to go elsewhere, many artistic free spirits found Bisbee an ideal, attractive, and inexpensive location to settle and pursue their artistic endeavors. The small town's legacy has long been preserved not only in its architecture and mining landscape, but is world-renowned for its diverse minerals and wealth of copper. *Historic information from DiscoverBisbee.com

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