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The
Longfellow Inn was at the head of Morenci Canyon,
located against the canyon wall and below AC Hill.
It was built in 1910 by the Arizona Copper Company
and named after the underground Longfellow Mine.
On
the second floor were a restaurant, banquet room,
and bar. The top floor was a men's dormitory. The
bottom floor at one time housed horse stables and
had four apartments. Originally the building was
a hotel and restaurant before it became a dormitory.
The
building was dismantled in 1966 when the rest of
Morenci was destroyed to make way for the expanding
open pit mine.
(History
of Arizona's Clifton-Morenci Mining District by
Ted Cogut and Bill Conger. Photo courtesy of Morenci
Copper Review, Feb. 1988)
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