Oatman Drug and Health Club

This property has

been placed on the

National Registry of

Historic places of the

U.S. Dept. of Interior.

(Formally

Oatman Drug and

Health Club)

Marker is at the intersection of Oatman-Topock Highway and Rock Hound Road, on the right when traveling north on Oatman-Topock Highway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Oatman

Gold Mining Town

Named for a migrating pioneer family attacked and killed by Indians near Gila Bend, Arizona, in 1851.

Some fifty mines operated in the Oatman area. From its beginning in 1904 and through 1931, the Oatman district produced $36,000,000 in ...

Oatman, Arizona

Elevation 2700 Feet

Oatman was founded about 1908. By 1931,

the areas mines which had produced over

1.8 million ounces of gold. By the mid 1930's,

the boom was over and in 1942 the last

remaining mines were closed as nonessential

to the war ...

Oatman

Fifteen miles east in the Black Mountains, is the historic Oatman mining district. Many original buildings still exist in the ghost town site. The Tom Reed United Eastern Gold Road and other mines produced more than thirty million dollars of ...

Oatman Arizona and its Burros

Oatman was founded around 1906 as part of Arizona's richest gold mining area. Oatman was reborn in the late 1960's and early 1970's as a tourist town. The main attraction was the wild burro herd. The burros roaming the Oatman ...