Pearce's post office was established March 6, 1896 and has not been discontinued. The Commonwealth mine was the mainstay of Pearce, discovered by Cornishmen Jimmie Pearce. The population of Pearce raced to 1500 residents. Pearce even had its own motion picture theater. The mine closed in the 1930's but there are still current residents today along with a museum. Fittsburg is the site of the mine and the mill associated with the town of Pearce. It is about 1 mile east of Pearce on Pearce Road. - GT Pearce is named after Jimmie Pearce who was miner in Tombstone. Together with his wife, who run (runed) a boardinghouse, he had save some money to buy land, and he bayed a ranch lot northeast of Tomb-stone. One day in 1894 he found placer gold beside a hilltop and he was back in mine business not as a worker but as owner. A town grow up near to Jimmie Pearce's Commonwealth Mine, post office opened on marts 6, 1896 and number of resident grow up to 1500. Jimmie Pearce sold Commonwealth for $250.000, and his wife, who remembered the hard times, made a clausal in the contract witch guarantee her rights to run a boardinghouse beside the mine witch worked until 1930. More buildings bring the memories about Pearce's hot days, including the post office who is still working, school, jail, 5 ruins, some foundation and the Old Store built in 1894 by Soto Brothers & Renaud. Pearce cemetery is west of the town along Middlemarch Road, witch is a dirt road who cross Dragoon Mountains to Tombstone, and witch leaded the soldiers between Fort Bowie and Fort Huachuca in 1870 and 1880. Bobby Zlatevski

Pearce

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Main Street store - 1893

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Old Post Office

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Jail

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Pearce

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Pearce

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Pearce

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Pearce

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Pearce

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Pearce

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Fittsburg circa 1900

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Pearce General Store (museum)

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Pearce

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School

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Home of Justice of the Peace

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Pearce Cemetery

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Pearce

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Pearce

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Pearce

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Pearce General Store

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Bignon Graves

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New Pearce Jail

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Old Pearce Jail

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Old Pearce Hill and Mine

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