Chloride

Chloride is said to be Arizona's oldest continuously occupied mining town, with silver mined from the 1870s and a major mine, the Tennessee, closing in 1947. A fire burned much of the town in the late 1920s, but a few hundred people live here today among historic buildings, an old jail and yard art. Roy Purcell painted the murals on granite boulders in a canyon east of town in 1966.