Globe

In 1875, prospectors struck silver when they were scouring the hills of the western past of San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Their most remarkable find, a globe-shaped silver nugget, was said to have a rough outline of the continents scarred on its surface. Miners converged on the area, setting up camp on the east bank of Pinal Creek.

The problem of this being Indian land was soon resolved by officially slicing it off the reservation. That didn't go over real well with the Apache, who menaced the camp until Geronimo's surrender in 1886.

Silver began to give out after only 4 years, but by then rich copper deposits had been discovered under the silver lodes. The Old Dominion Copper Company moved in and during the early 1900s grew to be one of the greatest copper mines in the world.

Globe prospered, too - its 50 restaurants and saloons never closed, and about 150 "working women" lived in neat little shacks along N. Broad street.