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Schieffelin Hall

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Schieffelin Hall is a building from the American Old West in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, the largest standing adobe structure still existent in the United States southwest. [1]

20 relations: Adobe, American frontier, Arizona Territory, Contributing property, Doc Holliday, Ed Schieffelin, Freemasonry, Gentlemen's agreement, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Investor, Mineral rights, National Register of Historic Places, Nicholas Porter Earp, Opera house, The Ticket-of-Leave Man (play), Theater drapes and stage curtains, Tombstone Historic District, Tombstone, Arizona, Tough Nut Mine, Wells Spicer.

Adobe

Adobe is a building material made from earth and other organic materials.

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American frontier

The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912.

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Arizona Territory

The Territory of Arizona (also known as Arizona Territory) was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.

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Contributing property

In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district, listed locally or federally, significant.

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Doc Holliday

John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp.

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Ed Schieffelin

Edward Lawrence Schieffelin (1847–1897) was an Indian scout and prospector who discovered silver in the Arizona Territory, which led to the founding of Tombstone, Arizona.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Gentlemen's agreement

A gentlemen's agreement or gentleman's agreement is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties.

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.

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Investor

An investor is a person that allocates capital with the expectation of a future financial return.

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Mineral rights

Mineral rights are property rights to exploit an area for the minerals it harbors.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Nicholas Porter Earp

Nicholas Porter Earp (September 6, 1813 – February 12, 1907) was the father of well-known Western lawmen Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan, and their lesser-known brothers James, Newton and Warren Earp.

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Opera house

An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building.

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The Ticket-of-Leave Man (play)

The Ticket-of-Leave Man is an 1863 stage melodrama in four acts by the British writer Tom Taylor, based on a French drama, Le Retour de Melun.

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Theater drapes and stage curtains

Theater drapes and stage curtains are large pieces of cloth that are designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators.

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Tombstone Historic District

Tombstone Historic District is a historic district in Tombstone, Arizona that is significant for its association with the struggle between lawlessness and civility in frontier towns of the wild west.

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Tombstone, Arizona

Tombstone is a historic city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory.

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Tough Nut Mine

The Tough Nut Mine is a silver mine established just prior to and just outside Tombstone in Cochise County, Arizona.

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Wells Spicer

Wells W. Spicer (1831 – 1885) was an American journalist, prospector, politician, lawyer and judge whose legal career immersed him in two significant events in frontier history: the Mountain Meadows massacre in the Utah Territory in 1857; and the 1881 shootout commonly known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schieffelin_Hall

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