AZ-Ramsey+Canyon--Hamburg+Meadow

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Cochise County
=Ramsey Canyon--Hamburg Meadow= Hereford, Arizona 85615 Hamburg Trail web page Ramsey Canyon Preserve web site

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Ramsey Canyon--Hamburg Meadow
Coordinates: 31.4244003, -110.3261032 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Hamburg Trail to Hamburg Meadow
Ramsey Canyon, once known as Dunton Canyon, has a long and colorful history, and was the vacation spot of the county for several decades. It is believed to be named after Gardner Ramsay, who lived here at least as early as 1878. There was also a W.H. Ramsey and a Frank Ramsey here about the same time. Much of the activity took place on what is now The Nature Conservancy's Mile Hi/Ramsey Canyon Preserve, located at about the middle of the canyon. The apple trees here were custom-grafted, and have been in production since the '20's. Prehistoric Indians settled along the mouth of the canyon, and their acorn grinding holes can still be seen in the bedrock along a wash.

The trail in Ramsey is called the Hamburg Trail, in honor of the mining town that existed at the upper end of the canyon at the start of this century. Just for the record, there never was a Hamburg Mine; that was the name of the town, which was named after Henry Hamburg, the general manager of the Hartford-Arizona Mining Company.

The original claim was staked in 1878 by an M. Burns and Peter Tompkins. The area developed quickly, and many locally prominent people had their hand in it, among them Richard Gird, of Tombstone fame. One claim, the Wisconsin, was located by a man named Patrick Scott, and for some reason those names were applied to the two canyons that begin where Ramsey ends.

There was a post office here from 1906 to 1916, then again from 1925 to 1928. The town met an explosive end when an angry young man, thought to be Lionel Hamburg, blew up everything in sight, including most of the tunnels, about 1928. Then in the 40's the remaining mining equipment was removed, to be recycled for the war effort. Little remains today, but Hamburg still makes for an interesting hike. From Hamburg Trail web page

About Ramsey Canyon Preserve
Ramsey Canyon, located in the Huachuca Mountains within the Upper San Pedro River Basin in southeastern Arizona, is renowned for its outstanding scenic beauty and the diversity of its plant and animal life. This diversity is the result of the interplay of geology, biogeography, topography, and climate.

Southeastern Arizona is an ecological crossroads, where the Sierra Madre of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts all come together. The abrupt rise of mountains like the Huachucas from the surrounding arid grasslands creates “sky islands” that harbor tremendous habitat diversity and form stepping stones to the tropics. This combination of factors gives Ramsey Canyon Preserve its notable variety of plant and animal life, including such southwestern specialties as Apache and Chihuahua pines, ridge-nosed rattlesnake, lesser long-nosed bat, elegant trogon, and berylline and violet-crowned hummingbirds. From Ramsey Canyon Preserve web site

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