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62301) Clemenceau in Cottonwood, AZ Last Updated: 3/20/2013

Clemenceau — 3/20/2013

Clemenceau is a neighborhood of the city of Cottonwood in Yavapai County. It was built as a company town in 1917 to serve the new smelter for James Douglas, Jr.'s United Verde Extension Mine (UVX) in Jerome. The town was originally named Verde after the mine, but it was changed to Clemenceau in 1920 in honor of the French premier in World War I, Georges Clemenceau, a personal friend of Douglas. Clemenceau would later leave a vase designed by the French potter Ernest Chaplet to the town in return. The smelter town had homes for workers, a school, post office, bank, and a clubhouse, and its population varied between 1,000 and 5,000. To deliver ore to the smelter from Jerome, Douglas built the Arizona-Extension Railway, a two-branch shortline railroad. The western branch ran between Clemenceau and the eastern portal of the 2.5-mile Josephine Tunnel, which connected... The rest of this description is continued on StrangeUSA.com

48752) UFO Reports (Cottonwood, AZ) in Cottonwood, AZ Last Updated: 8/27/2006

UFO Reports (Cottonwood, AZ) — 8/27/2006

---------------------------Link to original story: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/012/S12655.html" 4/18/00 19:00
Shape: Cylinder
Duration: 15 Sec
Summary: Witnessed object for about 15 seconds Looked like a rocket launch|
---------------------------Link to original story: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/004/S04048.html" 9/6/98 19:45
Shape: Other
Duration: 3-5minutes
Summary: Star shaped light turning red then white jumping across the sky split into 3 white lights then returned to red star|
---------------------------Link to original story: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/002/S02218.html" 5/13/97 22:30
Shape: light
Duration: 45min
Summary: My wife alerted me to a strange light in the sky "A ufo" I was indoors - I replied " Oh yea hmm"She insisted I com and take a look L|
---------------------------Link to original story: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/003/S03511.html" 7/26/70 23:30
Shape: Cylinder
Duration: 1hr 15 min
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12198) Little Daisy Hotel in Cottonwood, az Last Updated: 8/3/2006

Little Daisy Hotel — 8/3/2006

The ghost of a murdered prostitute is seen hanging around here, which used to be the red light district back in miner`s days. The town boasts a lot of supernatural occurrences: there`s even a "haunted hamburger stand".... To read more about this, and view comments and images Goto StrangeUSA.com