It’s hard to say exactly who will be calling Camp Verde home in the year 2065 when the community celebrates its 200th anniversary.
Maybe some are living here now. Many more don’t even exist yet.
Whoever they may be, they have the opportunity to look into a little window of what things were like here in Camp Verde back in good ol’ 2015, the town’s sesquicentennial, or 150th birthday.
The town was incorporated in late 1986, but considers 1865 as the date of founding, the year the U.S. Army first set up a camp in the area that would eventually lead to the creation of Fort Verde.
A committee that’s been brainstorming ways to mark the occasion is in the process of collecting various photos, odds and ends and knick-knacks for a time capsule.
The committee was created by the Camp Verde Historical Society earlier this year and they’ve already been at work.
You only turn 150 once, after all.
The committee asked Camp Verde Mayor Charlie German to go out and try and spread the word about the time capsule project.
“We’re asking people to give pictures,” German said.
Space is limited. The time capsule is a square-foot cube.
German said the capsule was donated for the project by Bueller’s Funeral Home.
The box needed to be something that was properly sealed in order to protect the objects inside from the conditions underground.
While the capsule may have originally been designed to hold cremated remains, it’s getting a new life to take a piece of the present into the future.
The committee has already amassed quite a collection.
“We have a whole host of pictures,” German said. “We want to show how things are right now.”
Other objects going in the capsule include a history book about Camp Verde and a commemorative sesquicentennial coin.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Sept. 9, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
