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27-725: Gillett may refer to: Places in the United States [ edit ] Gillett, Arizona , a ghost town and former mining settlement Gillett, Arkansas Gillett, Wisconsin Gillett (town), Wisconsin Gillett, Texas Gillett Grove, Iowa Other uses [ edit ] Gillett (surname) See also [ edit ] Penn Jillette (born 1955), American magician and writer Gillette (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Gillett All pages with titles containing Gillett Topics referred to by

54-674: A correspondent for Appleton's Journal . The incident became known as the Wickenburg Massacre . On one occasion Mr. Swilling and his friends were in a saloon in Gillett discussing the incident and the description of the murderers, Mr. Swilling jokingly mentioned that he and his friends matched the description. Thus, Mr. Swilling and his companions became suspects in the robbery. Pima County Sheriff Wiley W. Standefer arrested Mr. Swilling and Andrew Kirby. They were eventually turned over to Deputy U.S. Marshal Joseph W. Evans so that

81-636: A group that discovered gold placers on the Gila River twenty miles east of Fort Yuma . The resulting gold rush created the short-lived boomtown of Gila City . Snively subsequently was involved in the discovery of the silver-lead ore of the Castle Dome silver mine in the Castle Dome Mountains to the north of Gila City. With Hermann V. Ehrenberg he created the Castle Dome mining district in spring of 1863. That same year, after

108-580: A hearing. The real culprits of the massacre were caught, proving his innocence too late. Mr. Swilling was buried in an unmarked grave on the grounds of the federal prison cemetery before his family could be notified. Among the tales of lawlessness in Gillett is that of Henry Seymour. Seymour was the town's blacksmith who engaged in robbing the Wells Fargo stage coach before it reached the town. In 1882, alone he held up three coaches and no one suspected Seymour because he would already be in his shop before

135-522: A neglected cemetery remain. Currently, it is still designated as a populated place as per the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau . Tourist and locals in Arizona can visit Gillett by taking Interstate 17 (I-17) North and exiting at Table Mesa Road. Take West Table Mesa Road, cross the shadow Agua Fria River and continue to drive for approximately 0.3 miles to Gillett. The exact coordinates are: N 34* 01' 07.5" W 112* 09' 49.3". Permission of

162-595: A settlement formed around an ore mill serving the Tip Top Mine, on the Agua Fria River in Yavapai County in what was then Arizona Territory . It was named for the mining developer of the Tip Top Mine, Dan B. Gillett and is spelled incorrectly as Gillette on U. S. Topographic Maps and elsewhere. Gillett was founded by the superintendent of the Tip Top Mine, where he located the mill to process

189-658: A strong force of Mexican soldiers under Governor Manuel Armijo , in their weakened condition it was too strong to attack and they returned to Texas. During the California Gold Rush in 1849, Snively left his interests in Corpus Christi with his brother David and crossed northern Mexico, then sailed to the California gold fields from Mazatlán . After spending nine years searching for gold there, he moved to New Mexico Territory in 1858. There he led

216-480: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gillett, Arizona Gillett, Arizona , (the name is frequently misspelled as "Gillette" on maps and documents) is a ghost town in Yavapai County , Arizona , United States. It has an estimated elevation of 1,362 feet (415 m) above sea level. Historically, it was a stagecoach station, and then

243-614: The Arkansas River on June 20. However, on July 15, they were in turn surrounded and disarmed by a detachment of the U. S. Dragoons under the command of Captain Philip St. George Cooke for intruding into U. S. territory and killing a Mexican citizen. Many of the expedition left for Texas or for Missouri with the Dragoons. The remainder, less than 70, did continue and intercepted the train of goods they were after, but guarded by

270-546: The Mier Expedition and on the Texan Santa Fe Expedition . Snively was given authorization on February 16, 1843, but instructed not to violate the sovereignty of the United States. He was to raise and command a detachment of partisans not officially connected to Texas. Leaving on April 24, this 170-man strong Battalion of Invincibles fought and defeated a detachment of 100 Mexican soldiers on

297-639: The Apaches in the Wickenburg Mountains near the peak called White Picacho . Mrs. Swilling suggested that Mr. Swilling and two companions, which included Andrew Kirby and George Monroe, founder of Castle Hot Springs, go on a trip to recover and rebury the remains of their old friend. On April 17, Mr. Swilling and his two companions went on their Snively exhumation trip. Mr. Swilling and his companions returned to Gillett after exhuming Col. Snively's remains at White Picacho Mountains on April 23. He

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324-665: The Mexican government and received his own land in July, 1835. Commissioned on March 26, 1836, during the Texas Revolution he served as a first lieutenant of Company A, First Infantry Regiment under Henry W. Millard . In August he was promoted to captain and assigned to command of Company B. Sam Houston appointed him an ambassador to the Shawnee Indians on January 24, 1837, to sound out the tribe's intentions towards

351-750: The Republic of Texas and Mexico. On May 13, 1837, he was appointed to the rank of colonel and made paymaster general of the Army, and for a short time was acting secretary of war, before resigning from the army in September 1837. During the time of his resignation from the army, he served as Captain, September 14–December 13, 1838, of a group of Texas Mounted Rangers in the 1st Regiment of Mounted Gunmen/Battalion of Volunteer Rangers commanded by Major Leonard H Mabbitt. Later in 1839, he once again served as paymaster general under Albert Sidney Johnston and in 1843

378-433: The arrival of the stage coach. The robber, whose total amount in the three robberies added up to $ 68,000, became known as the "Ghost Bandit". Normally, Seymour hid his loot after a robbery, however suspicions as to his activities as an outlaw came about when in one occasion he used some of the money from a robbery in a local saloon's poker game. Maricopa County Sheriff Lindley Orme sent deputy Henry Garfias to investigate

405-514: The direction of Wickenburg, Arizona , when his group was attacked by an estimated 150 Apache at the White Picacho . Snively, mortally wounded, was abandoned by his companions. Later found in the arroyo where it fell, his badly decomposed and partially devoured body was buried nearby. Seven years later his friend and fellow Arizona pioneer Jack Swilling and two friends recovered his remains from its remote grave and reburied them behind

432-524: The first territorial election in for the newly organized Arizona Territory , its Governor John Noble Goodwin appointed Snively a judge. From 1866 Snively's affairs prospered with the success of the Castle Dome mine and as he made and lost small fortunes in New Mexico and Nevada ventures. On March 27, 1871, Snively was with a group that left from his home, in what is now Phoenix , to prospect in

459-465: The founder of Phoenix, and his wife Trinidad had various business interests in Gillett. The Swillings owned "Gillett Real Estate", where they sold lots ranging from $ 100 to $ 250 depending on the location, a cattle and horse ranch and a vegetable farm in partnership with L.A. Stephens. In the spring of 1878, word reached the Swillings that Colonel Jacob Snively , a family friend, had been killed by

486-526: The mill was closed in 1880, and moved to Tip Top in 1884, the town was soon abandoned. Its post office had postmasters appointed up to October 1883, but it was discontinued in August 1887. What remained was a store and a stagecoach station and a population of two. The stagecoach station was within the Black Canyon wagon road and stage route. The portion of the trail around Gillett and south of Prescott

513-401: The ore from Tip Top , nine miles away. Its post office opened October 15, 1878. At its height in 1878 Gillett, had six streets and aside from its mill and post office, a bank, assay office, hotel, real estate office, livery stable, lumberyard, meat market, truck farm, dairy, warehouse, two blacksmiths, two stagecoach stations, four stores and nine saloons/gambling houses. Jack Swilling ,

540-525: The owner of the now private property is required. Jacob Snively Jacob Snively was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania along with his twin brother David. His family moved soon afterwards to Hamilton County, Ohio . Snively studied to become a surveyor and civil engineer . Jacob Snively moved to Nacogdoches , Texas , Republic of Mexico in April, 1835 where he was a surveyor of land grants for

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594-580: The situation. During his investigation Garfias was told by witnesses that on the day of the last robbery they spotted Henry Seymour, the blacksmith, with a rifle under his arm along with several gunny sacks. Garfias suspected that Seymour was the Ghost Bandit and decided to set a trap. As soon as he found out that the next stagecoach was about to arrive in Gillett, Garfias hid close to the Agua Fria crossing and waited. As soon as he spotted Seymour, who

621-523: The state could charge them in the federal courts. Evans escorted them to the federal jail in Yuma. Prior to his arrest Mr. Swilling had developed a habit of using a combination of narcotics and liquor to relieve the pain caused by old injuries, thus he was not very healthy. The sanitary conditions inside the prison at Yuma were terrible and combined with the August heat, aggravated Mr. Swilling's chronic ill health. He died in his cell on August 12 while awaiting

648-465: Was armed with a rifle, Garfias arrested him. Thus, Seymour, the "Ghost Bandit", was finally caught when he attempted to rob his fourth stage coach that year. He was tried in Maricopa County and sent to prison. Seymour never told anyone where he hid his treasure and when he was released from prison he never returned to Gillett. Henry Garfias later become the first marshal of Phoenix. After

675-477: Was quartermaster of the army and an assistant inspector general of the republic. In January 1843 Snively proposed an operation to intercept a train of Mexican traders who would be returning from Missouri on the Santa Fe Trail by way of Texas territory and to seize their goods. This was to be in retaliation for the Mexican raids on San Antonio in 1842 and for the mistreatment of Texas prisoners captured in

702-429: Was seen walking the streets of Gillett with a bag or sack containing the remains of Col. Snively. Mr. Swilling buried the bones of Col. Snively on his property next to his house. Three hooded men, one tall, one medium-size, and one short, robbed a stagecoach near Wickenburg . Six men, including the driver, were shot and killed. Among them was Frederick Wadsworth Loring , a young writer from Boston who had been sent as

729-485: Was surrounded by boulders and scrub. This portion made it easy for stagecoach robbers to hide and ambush stagecoaches, making the trail a dangerous one to travel on. This resulted in the Wells Fargo Express Company halt of shipments over the route. The stagecoach station remained opened until 1912 when it also was abandoned. The Burfind Hotel was the largest structure in Gillett and ruins of it and

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