Ready to Ride to School
Max Allen and friend riding their pet donkeys in front of the Vail Section Foreman’s home. Max is riding Sam the...
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Centennial Whistle Stop
The Vail Preservation Society and Vail were proud to host one of the Whistle Stops celebrating Arizona’s Centennial. The Engineer of engine 844 sent special Tweets to students at Acacia Elementary School who were following the engine’s...
Vail School
Clouds gather over the Rincon Mountains in this 1960s photograph of the Vail School.
Old Vail Store & Post Office
The Vail Store and Post Office was the hub of communication and commerce for an area stretching from the Rincon Valley in the north to the Santa Rita Mountains to the south. Correspondence was welcomed equally by well-to do ranch owners and railroad section hands. Homesteaders, miners, wranglers and teamsters, they all crossed paths at the Vail Store and Post Office. Built in 1908, the walls of this humble adobe have echoed with joy, sorrow and laughter when a beer or a stiff shot of whisky hit the long wooden bar. In the early days confrontations sometimes ended in a gunshot. The smell of fresh hay, lathered horses and...
1918 Map of Vail
Vail, as remembered by Leonard McCulloch who grew up near the railroad tracks. There is one building still standing from that time-can you locate...
This Place Matters
These community members have just finished an adobe workshop to help stabilize the Old Vail Store & Post...