The town of Ash Fork was born in 1882 when the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which later became the Santa Fe arrived. It was one of five transcontinental railroad lines designed to connect the East Coast with the West.
During the 1890s the town became an important junction when the Santa Fe built a branch line south to Prescott, Wickenburg and Phoenix. It’s still central and southern Arizona’s onl

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