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Prescott Valley, AZ - History
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Welcome to the Prescott Valley Home page. The Prescott Valley Home page provides as much information as possible on Prescott Valley. Knowing Prescott Valley’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Prescott Valley’s Home page, you will also find Prescott Valley’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Prescott Valley has a population of 97901. 47.6% of Prescott Valley’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.4 are female. 51.2% of Prescott Valley is married and 71.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $259,267, and the average rent is $1,061. Household median income in Prescott Valley is $54,315, and the individual median income is $28,057. Prescott Valley’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.4%), Hispanic(19.6%), Multiple(4.9%), Other(2.7%), Asian(1.3%), Native(1%), Black(0.7%).
Prescott Valley's Fitzmaurice Ruins contain artifacts from the early Mountain Patayan people who inhabited the area some 1,400 years ago. The Walker Party discovered gold along Lynx Creek in 1863. The Lynx Creek placers went on to produce a recorded 29,000 troy ounces (900 kg) of gold. Estimates of actual production range up to 80,000 troy ounces (2,500 kg), which would be worth about $138 million at 2020 prices.Prescott Valley, formerly known as Lonesome Valley, was settled by ranchers in the 1880s, raising beef to supply the miners and new settlers.
The Fain family, pioneer ranchers, still ranch in the valley.Thomas Gibson Barlow-Massicks arrived in the area in the early 1890s and built the historic "castle" that still stands in Fain Park. Massicks had a hydraulic gold mining operation in Lynx Creek Canyon and built the company mining camp of Massicks, Arizona just east of his Victorian home, the castle.
The fireplace with chimney just inside the castle's fence is all that remains of the Massicks store. Massicks accidentally shot himself and died in April 1899 at the age of 37. In the 1930s, there was a gold dredging operation, the Doodle Bug Diggings, farther east in Lynx Creek Canyon.In the mid-1960s, Prescott Valley Incorporated, a real-estate company from Phoenix, purchased land in an area 10 miles east of Prescott known as Lonesome Valley.
In 1966, representatives from Prescott Valley Inc. began traveling to the Midwest to sell home lots. By 1978, more than 1,500 residents were living in the unincorporated area now known as Prescott Valley. In 1978, 80 percent of the voters of Prescott Valley voted for incorporation as a town. The Town celebrated its 40th anniversary during 2018. In 1985, Prescott Valley got its first licensed radio station.
The station was the first solar powered FM station in the United States. Today, Arizona's Hometown Radio Group has grown to seven stations throughout Arizona.
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