DISCOVER SEDONA
COURTHOUSE ROCK
In this place that looks like nowhere else, visitors from all over the world are discovering the “wow!” of Sedona. Story by Hoyt C. Johnson Photographs by Tom Johnson
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550 and 1400 A.D., are now intriguing ancient ruins that dot this area today. Indeed, Honanki and Palatki archaeological sites, Montezuma Castle and Montezuma Well national monuments, Tuzigoot National Monument and V-Bar-V Heritage Site still offer the public a glimpse into pre-Sedona’s extremely interesting lifestyle.
ong before T.C. Schnebly and his wife, Sedona, settled on an inviting site near Oak Creek, the Sinagua Indians farmed and fished nearby, and they harvested wild desert plants like yucca for medicinal and other practical uses. Yucca, abundant in what is now Sedona, provided fiber, food and soap to the Verde Valley’s original craftspeople. And their homes, occupied between
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