Hopi Katsina Dolls
In the Hopi religion, Katsinas are supernatural beings that are kindly spirits of life, fertility and prosperity. They are intermediaries to the gods, who come to villages and dance [...]
Arrowheads
“WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ARROWHEAD VERSUS A PROJECTILE POINT?” That’s a pretty common question heard in the Archaeology Wing of the Cave Creek Museum. What regular people call [...]
The Sweet Family
The Sweet Family only resided in Cave Creek from 1945 through 1949, but in those four years, George Sr and his wife Mary, daughter, Lyn and son George Jr., [...]
Prehistoric Pottery
The Cave Creek Museum is proud to house and exhibit an extensive collection of prehistoric pottery, much of it collected from local and regional sites, at first by interested [...]
Cattle Kate
Cave Creek had its own version of Annie Oakley. Her name was Catherine J. Jones. She was about five feet tall and known as “Cattle Kate” (she preferred Catherine). [...]
Frank “Mr. Cave Creek” Wright
He was known as “Mr. Cave Creek.” When Frank W. Wright passed in 1982 at the age of eighty-nine, he had lived in Cave Creek for sixty years. You [...]
Mormon Girl Mine
In the 1870s, the mountain we know as Black Mountain was known as Mormon Boy Mountain. An old prospector named Sweeney, along with his dependable burro Martha, found gold [...]
The Three Sisters
The prehistoric Hohokam, the ingenious, canal-building farmers, developed “polycropping;” that is planting maize (corn), beans, and squash together. This agrarian trinity became known as “The Three Sisters.” Maize was [...]
John A. Gurley
Arizona became a United States Territory on February 24, 1863. President Abraham Lincoln appointed the first three territorial governors: John A. Gurley, John Noble Goodwin, and Richard C. McCormick; [...]
