Cave Creek Museum

06/12/2026

📍Local Landmark of the Month:
El Encanto Restaurant!

Cradled in the heart of Cave Creek, this property was initially the offices for the Black Mountain Gas Company in 1952. The famous pond was originally a natural aquifer, before clay bottom was installed. Bill Nelson purchased the property in 1989 and with a love of Mexican architecture, created an enchanting Old-World Mission style oasis that many say feels like stepping into Mexico. The Nelson family has owned and operated El Encanto here since that time. This wonderful landmark creates special memories for generations of Arizonans and tourists and keeps the Town’s historical charm alive.

Who remembers when the Gas Company was there? Who has celebrated a special occasion with family or friends? Any Desert Arroyo Middle School students out there who remember your 8th grade “graduation” parties held on the patio?

❤️Local Creekers and visitors alike share many fond memories of El Encanto!❤️

📸: Cave Creek Museum

06/10/2026

Keep this week’s trivia answers coming! Send your guesses via messenger! Winner will be drawn on Friday afternoon!

It’s Creeker Trivia Time! We are celebrating Cave Creek’s 40th year of incorporation!

DO NOT POST GUESSES IN COMMENTS!! Send your answer via DM!!

Cave Creek Museum volunteers- shhhhh!

This week’s question:

Which Civil War general (colonel when here in Arizona) built the military wagon road through Cave Creek area connecting Fort McDowell with Fort Whipple❓

Winner will announced on Friday!

06/08/2026

It’s Creeker Trivia Time! We are celebrating Cave Creek’s 40th year of incorporation!

DO NOT POST GUESSES IN COMMENTS!! Send your answer via DM!!

Cave Creek Museum volunteers- shhhhh!

This week’s question:

Which Civil War general (colonel when here in Arizona) built the military wagon road through Cave Creek area connecting Fort McDowell with Fort Whipple❓

Winner will announced on Friday!

06/07/2026

⚒️🌟Congratulations to these two members of our Dream Team for completing their Millman training! Jay and Tom are now certified to work on our mining equipment, especially the Golden Reef Stamp Mill, which is unique to Arizona. They also are the newest volunteers, both just starting with the museum in the past ten months. Impressive start, gentlemen!

06/06/2026

🏠Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Jenna, from California, was the winning ticket of our Creeker Trivia contest. Although not a local, she is a frequent visitor to our foothills community and a friend to our Museum.
She was one of many entries, who guessed the correct answer to the quiz. Like many western mining camps, rough-hewn towns, and settlements, brothels were common throughout the territory. It is reputed that the cabin was briefly used as one in the 1940s.

06/05/2026

Come see us today at the Holland Center and we will share ways you can be a part of history while making new community connections!

06/04/2026

Tomorrow is the cut off for this week’s trivia question! Winner to be picked Friday afternoon! See information below!

🤠It's the Town of Cave Creek's
40th year of incorporation and time for a Creeker Trivia Contest to celebrate! Put your thinking cowboy hats on and test your knowledge of Creeker History!

The contest runs through June 30. Each Monday, starting today, June 1, we will post a Cave Creek history question then draw and announce the winner on Friday of that week.
All correct entries will be placed in a historically significant bucket and the winner will be drawn by an independent judge. The winner can pick up their prize at the museum.

The Cave Creek Museum's Tubercular Cabin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in the 1920s the cabin has served the following functions:

*😷A cabin for tubercular patients at the Desmount Sanitarium.

*🚧Temporary housing for construction workers employed in the construction of the Horseshoe and Bartlett Dams.

*🏡A vacation cabin for Mr. Santos Rubira.

QUESTION:
🤔What was the other reputed use for our little historic cabin?

Good luck! Please DM your answers. DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER IN COMMENTS.

06/03/2026

The winner of our drawing for the last day of the 2025/2026 season gift basket was all smiles when he dropped in to pick up his prize.
The Arizona 5 Cs basket was generously sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Carefree.

06/02/2026

Celebrate our town! Order a tee and wear it to the party at Harold’s Corral! Great food, live music and happy hour featuring 1986 prices! Proceeds from the shirt sales benefit Cave Creek Museum.




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