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The Bullion Plaza Museum in Miami, AZ

Last Updated: 1st Apr 2012

By Rick Dalrymple

The Bullion Plaza Museum in Miami, Arizona.


The museum is open from Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 11am to 3pm and Sunday from noon to 3pm. It is located on the west end of Miami in the Bullion School building. The school opened in 1923 as a segregated grammar school for the Mexican and Indian children in the area. Eventually, it evolved from a segregated school to a one of equality.

Today it is being slowly renovated as a museum dedicated to the cultural diverse history of Gila County. The basement is being remodeled to house a mineral display in a mine-like setting. The main floor currently houses some mining artifacts, some cowboy memorabilia, local soldiers in military service, and Senator Hardt who was a senator from Gila County.

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The upper floor of this 3 story building is mostly storage and empty rooms due to a leaky roof. After spending a quick hour on the main floor seeing what they have in the way of mining artifacts and minerals, which isn’t much, the museum board president, Joe Sanchez, ushered me out the front door. It was 3pm and he clearly wasn’t going to stick around for any reason. We were standing on the front steps of the museum when he noticed a window open on the 3rd floor. It clearly bothered him and he became rather troubled. I thought it was because he had to go back up there and close the window. It turns out he was scared to go back up there because the 3rd floor was haunted by an evil spirit at that end of the building. The other end of the building is haunted by a beautiful young woman’s spirit, which doesn’t seem to bother anyone. I was glad to join him in his endeavor. We approached the class room where the window was open and I just went into the room. He hesitated at the doorway as if to see if I was going to survive. I spared him the agony and closed the window for him. I wanted to hang around a little longer to see if the evil spirit would come out for a photograph but Joe was not going to have any part of it.

They have a display of the McKusick tile company that used local rocks and minerals to create their collector tiles. The display includes many tiles, molds for making the tile, and mixers and various machines used to create the tile.

Contact Information;
Bullion Plaza Museum
POB 786
Miami, Arizona 85539
az.terr1912@yahoo.com
lyddy@cableone.net




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