Massicks - Arizona Ghost Town

MASSICKS

NAME: Massicks
COUNTY: Yavapai
ROADS: 2WD
LEGAL INFO: T13N, R1W
CLIMATE: Mild winter possible snow, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime

COMMENTS: On lower Lynx Creek
REMAINS: Some foundations.

Massicks was the site of much hydraulic placer mining. Miners would wash gravel with big water hoses and sluicers would take the gold out. In 1890, Thomas G. Barlow-Massicks was sent to the site to superintend construction of a dam and new equipment at a cost of over $100,000. Barlow constructed a three story mansion for himself and the rest of the town had the usual. Barlow-Massicks accidentally died in 1899 when his pistol fell from its holster and accidentally discharged into his back. The site was worked into the 1930's with giant dredges and today the Arizona Parks System owns the mansion.	Dredge at Massicks Courtesy Sharlot hall Museum, Prescott Massicks Courtesy Kurt Wenner

Massicks was the site of much hydraulic placer mining. Miners would wash gravel with big water hoses and sluicers would take the gold out. In 1890, Thomas G. Barlow-Massicks was sent to the site to superintend construction of a dam and new equipment at a cost of over $100,000. Barlow constructed a three story mansion for himself and the rest of the town had the usual. Barlow-Massicks accidentally died in 1899 when his pistol fell from its holster and accidentally discharged into his back. The site was worked into the 1930's with giant dredges and today the Arizona Parks System owns the mansion.

Dredge at Massicks
Courtesy Sharlot hall Museum, Prescott

Massicks
Courtesy Kurt Wenner

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