Echoes of the Southwest

  Sharon and I set out for an urban exploration in Miami AZ hoping to find lots of abandoned sites to photograph. We have not been to Miami in over five years, so we were curious to see if there were any changes. I decided to check out the photos I took in 2016 and compare them to 2021. There were plenty of changes in this small mining town. Some places didn't change much, while others were in worst conditions or gone all together. I decided to put some of my pictures from 2016 side by side with the ones I just took. The photos on the left are from 2016 and the ones on the right are from 2021.

  This Arizona ghost town is southwest of Phoenix and 12 miles north of Sentinel.   In 1744, Father Jacob Sedelmayer named the location “Santa Maria del Agua Caliente”.   In 1775 it was shortened to Agua Caliente. The name means “hot water” and derived from the neighboring hot springs. The indigenous Native Americans used the hot springs as a healing treatment. By 1873, people from all over the world came to experience the hot springs. In 1897, they constructed a 22 room hotel with a swimming pool for all the visitors wanting to stay there. Sadly, because the nearby farmers using the water for irrigation, the hot springs eventually dried up. Today, all you will see when you visit Agua Caliente is an abandoned hotel, empty pool, adobe/stone ruins of cabins and outbuildings.

 Having fun with ghost makeup.