b'@koolbuildings7916CHLORIDEEstablished in 1863 as a silver mining camp,The Jim Fritz Museum is open every Saturday forDecember 31, 1913. Many of the surviving older Chloride is the oldest continually lived-inabout an hour or two around high noon. Artifactsbuildings in town were torn down in the 1950s to mining town in Arizona and has the statesin the museum date from as far back as the 1880s.make way for a trailer park. Now, all that remains oldest continually operated post office. The nameThe cemetery outside of town is one of the statesof the original town of Ehrenberg are the stone-Chloride came from the silver chloride foundoldest and it actually existed before the town wascovered graves and hand-carved wooden markers in the hills among other minerals in the area.plotted. The Earliest headstones are dated 1904- scattered across the Pioneer Cemetery. They pay Today, silver chloride is used in photographic1910. Unmarked graves date earlier. The originala ghostly homage to the Old West. The cemetery emulsions and antiseptic silver solutions. Chlorideparty of soldiers sent from Sonoma, CA. via Ft.was given a permanent monument by the Arizona was once home to some 75 mines and 5,000Mohave to prospect and mine the area, who wereHighway Department in 1935 and is located across residents. The town at that time had a brewery,killed by Indians near Silver Hill in 1866, arethe street from the entrance to thegeneral store, blacksmith shop, post office, andburied there. Arizona Oasis RV Resortseveral saloons. The local miners excavatedand easily accessible off ofminerals like silver, gold, and turquoise for overEhrenberg-Parkersix decades, until in the late 1920s when the townEHRENBERG PIONEER CEMETERY Highway. was burnt to the ground in its (near) entirety. ByThe town of Ehrenberg was once a bustling the 1940s, it had practically become a ghost town.steamboat stop along the Colorado River. At its The original post office was opened March 27,prime, more than 500 people called the small 1873, but on July 14, 1875, it was closed becausesettlement home. Ehrenberg, also historically so few people were in the area. It reopenedspelled "Ehrenburg was created in 1869 and on February 1, 1893, has been in operationnamed after Hermann Ehrenberg, a German since that time, and is the longest continuouslyemigrant. Hermann spent three years working with operating post office in the state of Arizona.the Mojave people along the Colorado River from 1863 until his untimely murder in 1866.It is about 3.5 miles off Hwy 93 between Las Vegas and Kingman, snuggled up against the CerbatThe town thrived as a steamboat stop along the Mountains. This not-a-ghost-town is as realriver through the mid-1870s. By 1875 there as it gets. Cattle are open range and come intowere 500 residents and as the population of the yards to graze unless they are kept out. Deer,La Paz dwindled many storekeepers relocated quail, cottontail rabbits, jackrabbits, coyotes, andto Ehrenberg. Around the start of the 20th roadrunners roam freely. You can hike in thecentury, railroads began to bypass the river as the mountains year-round. If ATVing is your thing,major means of transporting goods. The town\'s you can do that too. There are rocks to climb, rockspopulation declined, and it lost its post office on to find, and miles and miles of desert to explore.The bizarre art of Chloride can easily be seenalong the roadside of the non-historic part of town. ArizonaRealCountry.com June 2023 25'