Bisbee, part 4

The next part of Bisbee that I want to talk about was once the town of Saginaw, named after the city in Michigan. It sits about 1/4 mile east of Lowell. When Lowell and Bisbee were separate towns, their boundaries touched. The "main drag" of Saginaw is Old Douglas Road, which is the old alignment of U.S. Highway 80, forerunner to today's State Highway 80. This highway once was called "The Broadway of America," and it ran from Tybee Island, Georgia to San Diego, California. Now the highway ends in Dallas, Texas. Everything west of Dallas has been downgraded to either a state highway, county road, city street, federally-owned business loop through certain cities, or it has even been abandoned in some places.
There isn't much left to Saginaw's downtown business district. There are a few abandoned buildings, one occupied business, and several empty spaces where buildings once stood. Either they were the victim of a fire or they were demolished because they had fallen into really poor condition. All of the streets in the former town of Saginaw, with the exception of Old Douglas Road, have letter designations, such as "A" Street. The letters stop at "M" Street. The streets in both directions have letter designations, which is unusual. Lettered streets are usually parallel to each other.
Saginaw had about 400 people at its peak, but now this area is home to about 100 people. The main feature of this part of Bisbee is an elementary school, one of three elementary schools in Bisbee. The entire area that once comprised Saginaw lies north of State Highway 80's current alignment. When the highway was rerouted, it was built along the southern edge of Saginaw.
A short distance southwest of the former town of Lowell, on State Highway 92, is Galena, another one of the eight towns that merged to create modern Bisbee. Again, the boundaries of the towns of Lowell and Galena touched, just like the boundary between Lowell and Saginaw. Galena never really had a discernible downtown area and not much in the way of businesses, it was mostly residential. The population of Galena at its peak was about 350, and it is still about the same today. What was once the Galena City Hall is now a pool hall and bar.