The city of Prescott, Arizona has a rich history.  Did you know that 100,000 people inhabited the Prescott area more than 9,000 years ago?  These people were likely early ancestors of the Yavapai tribe, whose reservation now borders the city.  In the mid-19th century, Prescott developed rapidly.

In 1865, Prescott carved it's unique place among early communities in Arizona because it was reportedly built exclusively of wood and was inhabited almost entirely by Americans as a result of the nation's Westward expansion.  Once the capital city of Arizona, Prescott eventually lost it's place as the state's legislative seat to Tucson and finally to Phoenix in 1889.  A year later, a devastating fire burned the wood-constructed buildings of Prescott to the ground.

The city was soon triumphantly rebuilt, and many of the buildings you see today are reminders of its past.  Today, the older residential streets are lined with tall trees and pitched-roof frame houses, including turreted Victorian homes.  Prescott has many homes and businesses on the National Register of Historic Places and its trademark white granite Prescott courthouse, set among the green lawns and spreading trees of the town square, reflects the Midwestern and New England background of Prescott’s pioneers.