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Flagstaff: A Crossroads of History
Flagstaff: A Crossroads of History
Piper Robb
Flagstaff Arizona is the highest elevation point on Route 66 and holds a lot of the city's visitation value as well as having a legacy with all of its old motels and diners. With old traditions comes all kinds of stories, including ghost stories, railroad tales, and the start of the city.
Ghost stories are an old topic for Flagstaff, some people don’t know about all of the spooky paranormal stories of Flagstaff, and It all starts in 1926, the year Route 66 was established. Hotel Monte Vista is a hotel built in 1927 and is known for numerous ghost stories such as “the phantom bellboy” and the spirits of a couple who were allegedly murdered in their rooms of the hotel. There is yet another building in Flagstaff that is known to be haunted…The Museum Club. Opened in 1931 as a taxidermy museum, past owners have reported paranormal activity and then later had tragic deaths.
On the topic of the Santa Fe Railroad, in 1882, it was the first railroad to reach Flagstaff, because of the railroad the city slowly grew around it. In 1926, the Santa Fe railroad built its new depot which is now the Flagstaff Visitor Center, Route 66 was also established in the same year. Throughout the time when the town became more popular, the area around the Santa Fe tracks and Route 66 became a very popular place for commerce, hosting business hotels, and restaurants. The Santa Fe tracks and Route 66 was one of the first places where automobile and railroad travel co-existed.
All in all, The Santa Fe tracks, Route 66 and ghost stories of the town are some of the big parts in history of flagstaff, and they all contribute a lot to why the town is the way it is today.