Courtland's post office was established March 13, 1909 and discontinued September 30, 1942. Courtland was a large enough town to support two newspapers, one called the Courtland Arizonan. Courtland had over 2000 inhabitants at one time. The town even boasted over 5 miles of water mains and a movie theater. There were baseball games, horse races, weddings and all types of events one would expect of a modern town. But, the mines played out and the town slowly died, closing its post office in 1942. One of the most interesting buildings remaining is the old jail. - GT Courtland is the only community on the Ghost Town Trail (a popular driving tour from Tombstone to Fort Bowie ruins, 4 mining towns, 3 stagecoach stations and 1 railroad town) witch is completely destroyed from the desert. It's almost nothing left except the ruins of the escape secure prison, one collapsed store, stonewalls, remains from mining and vanished cemetery south of the town. Once earlier was a lot of life in Courtland and more hundred people came to the area in 1909, like they done to Calu-met & Arizona, Copper Que-en, Lead-ville and Great Western companies who all started mining. The Great We-stern was owned by W. J. Young, who named the town after his brother Courtland. The town had a population of 2000 people, post office witch opened on Mart 13, 1909, own news paper "the Court-land Arizonan"), cinema, butcher store, is store, swimming pool, Wells Fargo office, Southern Arizona Auto Company (local Stevens & Duryea company) and Mexico & Colo-rado Rail-road, a sideline from her to north of Douglas. The town survived the Depression days but they lost post office on September 30, 1942. On that time many buildings were removed or collapsed. Notice!!! There are many open shafts close to the town; some of them are not surrounded with the fence. If you walk around Courtland, keep you eyes open, be extreme careful, and don't fall in the hols, because you will never come up again. Bobby Zlatevski

Courtland

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Courtland

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Courtland

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Courtland

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Courtland

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Courtland in 1909

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Courtland Jail

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Courtland

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Courtland

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Courtland

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