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Peg Price | all galleries >> Galleries >> Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps > Oatman Drug Company
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27 February 2005 Peg Price

Oatman Drug Company

Oatman on Route 66


Oatman began about 90 years ago as a mining tent camp and quickly became a flourishing gold-mining center. In 1915, two miners struck a $10 million gold find, and within a year, the town's population grew to more than 3,500.

Oatman was named in honor of Olive Oatman, who was kidnapped as a young girl by Mojave Indians and later rescued in 1857 near the current site of the town.

This photo shows the old Oatman Drug Company (built in 1904) now called the "Glory Hole".


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