Alexandra is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona. The ghost town was settled during the frontier days 1875 as a mining camp until abandoned completey in 1896. Alexandra is ten miles east of Mayer.

History

Alexandra was founded by E.G. Peck, the owner of the Peck Mine, a famous mining company at the time, T.M. Alexander, William Cole and a man named C.C. Bean. One day in June 1875 while walking throught the Bradshaw Mountains, Peck notices a peculiar rock partly underground. After examination, the rock proved to be pure silver and the first of Alexandra was founded. The town is located in Peck Canyon and was named Alexandra after Mrs. T.M. Alexander, a founder and the first lady to be at the town. A long mountain road seperated the town from Mayer. The silver ore produced from the mine was taken via pack train through Bradshaws tho Aztlan Mill, thirty miles away.

This bacame troublesome so eventuall Peck bult his own mill at Alexandra in 1877. A year later a post office was established. The town boomed and grew to seventy-five to 100 buildings. General stores, Saloons, boarding houses, livery stables, a blacksmith and a brewery all existed there. Alexandra was lively until litigation problems began and by 1879 the town was mostly uninhabited for years. The post office closed in 1896 but in 1903, a new shaft was founded. This did not save the town though, apparantly Alexandra never thrived again and became a ghost.