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| Road Biking | 13.70 Miles |
265 AEG |
| | Road Biking | 13.70 Miles | 3 Hrs 1 Min | | 5.04 mph |
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| no partners | | Culling's Well and stage coach station was established around 1868 by an Englishman named Charles Culling. The hand dug, 240 ft well,was the only permanent water source within a 30 mile radius between Wickenburg and Ehrenberg. Charles Culling hung a lantern outside of the adobe he and his family lived in to guide weary travelers to the water source giving it the name, "The lighthouse of the desert."
Many people died within a few miles of the station and are buried close by in marked and unmarked graves.
There were four primary players at Culling's Well, Charles Culling, his wife, Maria, whom he married when she was 14 years old, Joseph Drew, a close friend to Charles Culling and 2nd husband to Maria, and Christian Berry, another close friend to the Culling family and Joseph Drew.
Joseph took over caring for the well when Charles died in 1878 and later married Maria. Christian Berry was a stage hand who helped care for the place for more than 20 years until he committed suicide in his bedroom in 1878 after being diagnosed with kidney stones.
There are two burial sites near the property, Cullings Well Cemetery is 1/3 mile to the south and there are five to six marked graves just to the west. The American Pioneer and Cemetery Research Project identified eight to twelve unmarked graves, including three children, just to the south and east.
Joseph Drew died of a heart attack in 1915 at the age of 70 and is buried Greenwood Memory Lawn in Phoenix in an unmarked grave.. Maria died in 1910 at the age of 53 after a surgery and is buried in St Francis Cemetery, also in an unmarked grave.
According to Maria, Charles Culling and Christian Berry were buried side by side in Culling's Well Cemetery. |
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