BULLION PLAZA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM

MIAMI, AZ

Goldenflower Century Plant (Agave chrysantha); Highway 77 between Winkleman and Globe, N of Winkleman, AZ Goldenflower Century Plant (Agave chrysantha); Highway 77 between Winkleman and Globe, N of Winkleman, AZ
Goldenflower Century Plant (Agave chrysantha); Highway 77 between Winkleman and Globe, N of Winkleman, AZ Credit: Lon&Queta

The Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum in Miami, Arizona is an educational and cultural center that celebrates the history of the United States’ once-thriving copper mining industry. It is housed in the former Miami High School, which was built in 1911 in the heart of Miami’s copper mining district. The Cultural Center preserves and exhibits the artifacts, tools, photographs, and documents that tell the story of copper mining in the area.

The Cultural Center consists of two floors of museum exhibits and a theatre. On the first floor, visitors can explore the history of the copper industry, including the development of the Miami Smelter and the many people who contributed to the area’s industrial growth. The second floor houses a theater, which is home to a variety of live entertainment and educational events.

The Cultural Center also offers educational programs for children and adults, including field trips, lectures, and workshops. It also hosts a variety of special events throughout the year, such as art shows, music concerts, and Native American ceremonies. In addition, the Cultural Center provides access to a gift shop and a research library.

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum is a great place to learn more about the history of copper mining in the United States. It is an important part of Miami’s cultural heritage, and a great place to spend an afternoon.

BULLION PLAZA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM is a History Museum in MIAMI AZ. US MID #8400400436

The museum is classed as HST (History Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Western (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ 57,125 from tax period 201212 (YYYYMM).

Goldenflower Century Plant (Agave chrysantha); Highway 77 between Winkleman and Globe, N of Winkleman, AZ Goldenflower Century Plant (Agave chrysantha); Highway 77 between Winkleman and Globe, N of Winkleman, AZ
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - rocks bench This is a bench made out of rocks at the Wallace Collection addition to Boyce Thompson Arboretum <a href="https://btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s newest garden, the Wallace Desert Garden, offers expansive views, creekside trails, and hundreds of plants brand-new to BTA! At 13 acres and with more than 5,000 new plantings, the addition of the Wallace collection moves Boyce Thompson Arboretum into the top tier of botanical gardens around the world. The main trail is wheelchair accessible. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> DSC05595.jpg
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - rock benches with ocotillo shade These are benches at an observation point along the trail in Boyce Thompon Arboretum newest garden, the Wallace Collection. Happy Bench Monday <a href="https://btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s newest garden, the Wallace Desert Garden, offers expansive views, creekside trails, and hundreds of plants brand-new to BTA! At 13 acres and with more than 5,000 new plantings, the addition of the Wallace collection moves Boyce Thompson Arboretum into the top tier of botanical gardens around the world. The main trail is wheelchair accessible. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> DSC05597.jpg
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - "North Arrow" sculpture I have no idea what this sculpture represents. I am calling it the "North Arrow" sculpture. It looks to me like some sort of astronomical instrument. Perhaps an arrow pointing at the North Star. It could be a sun dial of some sort. It is along the trail in Boyce Thompson Arboretum newest garden, the Wallace Collection. <a href="https://btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s newest garden, the Wallace Desert Garden, offers expansive views, creekside trails, and hundreds of plants brand-new to BTA! At 13 acres and with more than 5,000 new plantings, the addition of the Wallace collection moves Boyce Thompson Arboretum into the top tier of botanical gardens around the world. The main trail is wheelchair accessible. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> DSC05600.jpg
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - azurite and malachite This is an installation of Azurite and Malachite from Morenci at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior. Azurite and Malachite are copper carbonates that can be processed and refined to copper. Along with copper sulfides such as chalcopyrite, they form the basis of the copper mining industry in Arizona. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azurite" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azurite</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachite" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachite</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> DSC05591.jpg
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - lava rocks bench This is a bench made out of lava rocks at the Wallace Collection addition to Boyce Thompson Arboretum. I suppose an uncomfortable bench is better than no bench at all. HBM! <a href="https://btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s newest garden, the Wallace Desert Garden, offers expansive views, creekside trails, and hundreds of plants brand-new to BTA! At 13 acres and with more than 5,000 new plantings, the addition of the Wallace collection moves Boyce Thompson Arboretum into the top tier of botanical gardens around the world. The main trail is wheelchair accessible. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> HMB! DSC05564.jpg
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - benches at Conversation point These are benches at Conversation Point at the Wallace Collection addition to Boyce Thompson Arboretum. HBM! <a href="https://btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s newest garden, the Wallace Desert Garden, offers expansive views, creekside trails, and hundreds of plants brand-new to BTA! At 13 acres and with more than 5,000 new plantings, the addition of the Wallace collection moves Boyce Thompson Arboretum into the top tier of botanical gardens around the world. The main trail is wheelchair accessible. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> DSC05570.jpg
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - View from Conversation Point This is the view from Conversation Point in the Wallace Collection addition looking eastnortheast toward Superior Arizona. <a href="https://btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s newest garden, the Wallace Desert Garden, offers expansive views, creekside trails, and hundreds of plants brand-new to BTA! At 13 acres and with more than 5,000 new plantings, the addition of the Wallace collection moves Boyce Thompson Arboretum into the top tier of botanical gardens around the world. The main trail is wheelchair accessible. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> DSC05572.jpg
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - Morrocan Mound This is a Morrocan Mound (Euphorbia resinifera). A new addition in the new Wallace Collection added to Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_resinifera" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_resinifera</a> Euphorbia resinifera, the resin spurge, is a species of spurge native to Morocco, where it occurs on the slopes of the Atlas Mountains. The dried latex of the plant was used in ancient medicine. It contains resiniferatoxin, an extremely potent capsaicin analog tested as an analgesic since 1997. <a href="https://btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s newest garden, the Wallace Desert Garden, offers expansive views, creekside trails, and hundreds of plants brand-new to BTA! At 13 acres and with more than 5,000 new plantings, the addition of the Wallace collection moves Boyce Thompson Arboretum into the top tier of botanical gardens around the world. The main trail is wheelchair accessible. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> DSC05574.jpg
Boyce Thompson Arboretum - Boojum tree among Saguaros This Boojum Tree is part of the new plantings in the Wallace Collection added to Boyce Thompson Arboretum. A new neighbor among the native Saguaros. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boojum_tree" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boojum_tree</a> Fouquieria columnaris, the Boojum tree or cirio (Latin American Spanish: [ˈsiɾjo]) is a tree in the ocotillo family, whose other members include the ocotillos. Some taxonomists place it in the separate genus Idria. It is nearly endemic to the Baja California Peninsula (both the northern and southern states), with only a small population in the Sierra Bacha of Sonora, Mexico. The plant's English name, Boojum, was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, and is taken from Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".[2][3][4] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/garden/wallace-desert-garden/</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum’s newest garden, the Wallace Desert Garden, offers expansive views, creekside trails, and hundreds of plants brand-new to BTA! At 13 acres and with more than 5,000 new plantings, the addition of the Wallace collection moves Boyce Thompson Arboretum into the top tier of botanical gardens around the world. The main trail is wheelchair accessible. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum</a> Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona. The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior. Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3] <a href="https://btarboretum.org/about/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">btarboretum.org/about/</a> DSC05559.jpg
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MID # 8400400436
Name BULLION PLAZA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM
Alternate Name
Classification History Museums, , Western
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) 861028253
NTEECC A54
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM) 201212
INCOME 57,125
REVENUE 57,125
LAT/LONG 33.398528, -110.870427
CODES FIPS State Code: 04
FIPS County Code: 007
US Census Tract: 000800
US Census Block: 2266