Preservation: Hold The Fort
By: Mark Boardman 11/01/2008
SAVING O.K. CORRAL STREET
In 1881, four men walked Tombstone, Arizona’s Fremont Street, to confront a group of Cowboys in an empty lot behind the O.K. Corral.
The street is now a major highway, but efforts are underway to return Fremont to what it was (as much as possible).
The state of Arizona has allocated some $963,000 to place sidewalks, boardwalks, porches and canopies where they used to be in a stretch between Third Street and Sixth Street. Trees will also be planted, and Fremont may be narrowed.
The first step—a project assessment, which kicked off in early August—should be finished in a year.
Even the ghosts of the Cowboys might approve of this return to yesterday.
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