The Camp Verde Town Council has given its blessing for using the gazebo in the heart of downtown to be a part of the town’s sesquicentennial celebration next year.
Camp Verde’s 150th, or sesquicentennial, is in 2015, marking the anniversary of when the first Anglo settlers came from over the other side of the mountain.
Of course, people were living here for centuries before those folks arrived, but Camp Verde is still looking to mark the occasion.
Those first settlers came to the area around Clear Creek.
Eventually, the U.S. Army was brought in to provide protection, through a series of military encampments that eventually evolved into Fort Verde, the remaining buildings of which are maintained as a state park in downtown.
A committee has been formed to plan the celebration.
So far, things are still just in the early brainstorming phase, said Mary McCarthy, an intern who works with the town’s economic development department.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Nov. 26, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
