Henry Garfias was the first city marshal of Phoenix, Arizona. He was also a gunfighter who became the elected official of Mexican descent holding the highest office the Phoenix region in the 19th century.
Sheriff Garfias
Historic Washington Street
Clothes worn by sheriff Henry Garfias in 1881
Replica of Sheriff Henry Garfias’ office and jail with a figure which resembles and represents Garfia.
Gillett, Arizona, 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 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.
Jack Swilling
Sheriff Henry Garfias
The ruins of the 1878 Burfind Hotel in Gillett.
The Agua Fria River on the border edge of Gillett.