Vulture City "Hanging Tree"
250+ year old Ironwood tree.  Reportedly 128 men have been hung here for High Grading which is stealing the highest grade of Gold.

Verde Flat Cemetery

Vulture City Entrance

Assay Office

Check-in Here

Schoolhouse 1
On Vulture Gold Mine property, not part of Vulture City.  You must get permission from the mine owners (Vulture Creek Holdings LLC) to shoot here.  I got permission by asking the security guard in Vulture City, he called the mine owners who granted brief permission to shoot the schoolhouses.

Parking

Power House
In service until 1954

Garage
Single Car garage and repair shop.

Amphitheater

1940 one-ton Ford Pickup

Restroom

Gas Station
Remains of early gravity fed gas pump, 1924 National Cash Register

Pump House
Housed the main water pumps. Drilling exhibit.

Vultures Roost
Private residence of Earnest Dickie the last mine manager.  Now a small museum.

Blacksmith Shop

Head-frame
Used to hoist materials and people into the mine below.

Henry Wickenburg's Cabin
The carbide cans provide ventilation and could be used as gun ports.

Brothel and Doctors Office
Also a boarding house. The most photogenic building in Vulture City.

Miners Manor
Created by Ray Villafane, an American Sculpture artist.  Ray is also known for pumpkin carving.

Cookhouse and Bar
Main kitchen, mess hall, and bar

Bunkhouse
Not open when we there.  One room could be photographed from the doorway. Bunk beds were stacked three high.  Room and board in the 1880's was about $1 per day.

Workshop
Lumber was brought in from Prescott National Forest and milled here.

Wells Fargo Post Office

Four Saquaros
Head-frame in the background

Mine Entrance
No entry. The lights in the interior are an ugly green, I removed saturation in post.

Schoolhouse 2
The interior is in disrepair and has not been renovated. On Vulture Gold Mine property, not part of Vulture City. You must get permission from the mine owners (Vulture Creek Holdings LLC) to shoot here. I got permission by asking the security guard in Vulture City, he called the mine owners who granted brief permission to shoot the schoolhouses.