A rich discovery and the name of a new town.
The story goes that prospector Charlie McMillan was a man strongly addicted to ardent spirits.
One night in 1876, Charlie was doing the town of Globe with his partner Dory Harris. They were going out prospecting the next morning and Charlie was so hungover that Dory had to tie him in the saddle.
They’d ridden a few miles north of Globe when Charlie could go no further. He got off his mule and lay down to sleep. Dory passed the time by poking around with his prospector’s pick and hammer; he uncovered a rich bonanza of silver ore right where Charlie was “snoozing.”
A town grew up nearby and they named it McMillanville. Before the mine played out, the town grew to 1,500 and the mine produced more than a million dollars in gold and silver.
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