About Clifton Townsite Historic District
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The Clifton Townsite Historic District, in Clifton, Arizona, is a 37-acre (15 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
It is historically significant as "a largely intact area within Clifton, a copper mining town in eastern Arizona which developed between 1870 and 1930. The district is significant...for its association with the early copper mining and smelting operations in that region and with the town which grew to support those operations; it is additionally significant...for its intact examples of architecture typical of Arizona's mining towns of the day."