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Benson, AZ - History
We would like to provide the residents of Benson a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Benson Home page. The Benson Home page provides as much information as possible on Benson. Knowing Benson’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Benson’s Home page, you will also find Benson’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Benson has a population of 4857. 49.8% of Benson’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.2 are female. 43.1% of Benson is married and 69.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $113,833, and the average rent is $674. Household median income in Benson is $42,120, and the individual median income is $25,629. Benson’s Ethnic is the following: White(84.9%), Hispanic(21.6%), Multiple(8.7%), Native(2.3%), Other(1.8%), Asian(1.2%), Black(1.2%).
The city was founded in 1880 when the Southern Pacific Railroad came through. It was named after Judge William S. Benson, a friend of Charles Crocker, president of the Southern Pacific. The railroad, coming overland from California, chose the Benson site to cross the San Pedro River. Benson then served as a rail junction point to obtain ore and refined metal by wagon, in turn shipping rail freight back to the mines at Tombstone, Fairbank, Contention City and Bisbee.
For example, the railhead in Benson was about 25 miles (40 km) from Tombstone, and was the closest rail connection to it until 1882, when a feeder line was laid from Benson to Contention City. The railhead in Benson was founded about a mile from a traditional crossing of the upper San Pedro River (known also as the Middle Crossing), used by the Southern Emigrant Trail and San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line.
It was the site of the San Pedro Station of the Butterfield Overland Mail and a wagon depot, the San Pedro River Station, run since 1871 by William Ohnesorgen. In 1878 he had erected a toll bridge over which mining supplies were transported to the new mining camps such as Fairbank and Tombstone. Two years later this bridge marked the location of the railroad bridge that became the terminal site of Benson. Apache Nitrogen Products (originally Apache Powder Company) was formed in the 1920s.
It was located just outside Benson and was a major employer. Apache Park and nine nearby houses on West 6th Street in Benson, built to house company management, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 as the Apache Powder Historic Residential District.The city today is perhaps best known as the gateway to Kartchner Caverns State Park.
It is also home to the acclaimed Singing Wind Bookshop, which specializes in books about the Southwest.
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