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Photo, 1937, by Frederick D. Nichols.
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The Rose Tree Museum today, David Alexander,
April, 2007.
The Rose Tree Inn, one of the first adobe
buildings constructed in
Tombstone,
was built by A.C. and Alice Robertson in 1880 for the use of offices and a
boarding house for the Vizina Mining Company. In 1885, a newly married
couple from Scotland, Henry and Mary Gee, lived in the boarding house.
While Henry, a mining engineer was away at work, Mary spent her time
mostly being homesick for her native Scotland. However, she did make one
friend, the caretaker at the Rose Tree Inn, one Amelia Adamson. |
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When Henry and Mary built a permanent home,
Mary’s family sent her a box of plant cuttings from her native home,
including a white Lady Banksias Rose. After planting several in her yard,
she gave a cutting of the rose to her friend Amelia at the Rose Tree Inn.
Together, they planted the cutting on the patio and despite the desert
heat, it began to thrive.
When the Vizina Mine shut
down, the building, with its rose bush in the back, became a hotel and in
1930, Ethel Macia, the daughter of original builders, A.C. and Alice
Robertson took over the inn. By this time, the rose bush, so out of place
in the Arizona desert, had grown to a "rose tree,” and was soon hailed as
"The World's Largest Rose" by an entertaining Robert Ripley.
Today, the building, still owned by the Macia
family, serves as a small museum. In back, the Rose Tree now covers an
area of over 8,000 square feet, and holds the title of the world’s largest
rose tree in the Guiness Book Of World Records. The museum also
holds a number of historic artifiacts and mining displays. Located at 4th
and Toughnut streets, the museum is open daily, admission charged.
Kathy Weiser/Legends
of America, © May, 2007
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