Chloride

Arizona

TypeRoadside Americana

Arizona's oldest continuously inhabited mining town, with a visitor center at the Mineshaft Market, the Roy Purcell "Journey" murals (1966) about 1.5 miles out a maintained dirt road, a 1917 jail, and the Jim Fritz museum (open most Saturdays).

Arizona's oldest continuously inhabited mining town, with a visitor center at the Mineshaft Market, the Roy Purcell "Journey" murals (1966) about 1.5 miles out a maintained dirt road, a 1917 jail, and the Jim Fritz museum (open most Saturdays).

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