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BOUSE MUSEUM |
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| Page 3 | Located at 44362 E. Main St |
| Bouse, AZ 85325 | |
| Page 4 | Phone: 928-851-2509 |
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| Open:Oct-Apr | |
| Page 6 | Thur - Sat 10am to 2pm |
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Upton and Cliff O'Neill contacted the Arizona State Parks Board for a grant to restore the old Assay Office in 1991. The Bouse Chamber of Commerce had identified and purchased with donated funds the Assay Building, one of the only two remaining original structures in Historic Bouse. The Bouse Chamber of Commerce started restoring the old Assay Office in 1991. It was completed about 1993. It is now the Bouse Chamber of Commerce Office as well as the Bouse Museum and visitor center. The building was built in 1902 and used as the assay office for the Swansea and other mines up and down the Bill Williams River. As the years went by the assayer P.P. Thompson, a U.S. Mimeral Surveyor, lived in the assay office until about 1923. Besides surveying Swansea and other mines he also surveyed the original Bouse Townsite, in 1910 and the Worley Addition to the Bouse Townsite in 1916. |
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1970 a Mr. & Mrs. Carey were using the back of the assay office as their home. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Kurtz, who lived across the then dirt road helped them with the basic necessities. The Museum has historical artifacts from the secret Camp Bouse where the secret M3A1 (T-10 shop tractor) tank, nicknamed the "Gizmo" by the troops, was used for training. The Museum has booklets and maps of the area which includes the trails to the Swansea and Planet Ranch ghost towns. |
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