Ray, Sonora, and Barcelona in central, east Arizona are no more. In there place is a giant, open pit copper mine. This web site is a remembrance of what once was home.
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4TH ANNUAL RHS PICNIC Saturday, March 10, 2012

The 4th Annual RHS Picnic is coming up ... Saturday, March 10 from noon to 5:00 p.m. at the PERA Club Pavilion at 1 East Continental, Tempe, AZ

I was a sixth and seventh grader in .Ray, Arizona, so my perspective is incomplete, immature and romantic. I need the input from those who lived and worked more years and with more at stake to make this a more detailed and realistic web site. But until that perspective arises, here is mine.

Teapot Mountain, 1911, snowyThe landscape dominated the town. To the southwest was Teapot Mt. shown here in a 1911 photo taken from above and northeast of Ray. (Near #1 on the map.)
Fortunately, this and twenty-two other pictures of Ray-Sonora are part of the Cline Library collection and can be viewed on the web.
Teapot Mtn. beyond the open pit copper mine. A fairly recent picture from about the same perspective shows the copper mine--a somewhat changed scene. A brief history of the mining corporations is at the ASARCO Mines.

A book that is much more complete than this web page is "Forever Sonora, .Ray, Barcelona - A Labor of Love" by .Leonor .Lopez. She has contacted me with permission to upload portions of the book. My copy was bought from the .General .Kearny .Inn, .Kearny, AZ.


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