Bisbee, part 5

Next door to Galena, heading southwest on highway 92, are the former towns of Briggs and Tintown. The Briggs section of Bisbee lies mostly west of the highway and the Tintown section is mostly on the east side. Briggs was founded in 1901 and had 285 people at its peak. Today it has about 200. Like Galena, it was mostly residential with very few businesses.
Tintown was the poorest of the eight towns that merged to form modern Bisbee and it is still the poorest part of town. With the exception of Highway 92, every street in the Tintown section is dirt. The former City Hall is located on one of those dirt streets with windows missing and part of its roof missing. This area has about 75 people. At its peak it had nearly 1,000,so it has alot of empty buildings and ruins. It was first settled in 1898 by Mexican laborers.
Between the Galena and Briggs sections of Bisbee is one of only 2 intersections in town that have traffic lights, the intersection of State Highway 92 and School Terrace Road.
The next section of town I will talk about is called Bakerville. It is adjacent to the Lowell section of town, on the southeast, on Bisbee Road and due east of the Galena section. Today, the Bakerville section has about 500 people, but at its peak, the town of Bakerville had about 3,400 people. As might be expected, this section of town has alot of abandoned, dilapidated buildings. The downtown business district has a few businesses still open, but most of them are abandoned. The main feature of Bakerville is Copper Queen Hospital, which has only 13 beds, making it the smallest hospital in Arizona. Bakerville was settled in 1905.
I have 2 more sections of Bisbee to talk about. One of them has the majority of the town's population today, even more people than "Old" Bisbee. It is also the newest part of town, not part of the original merger. The other section has the most legendary history of all the town's sections, possibly more legendary than "Old" Bisbee.