page_title: List of historic properties in Cave Creek, Arizona
section_title: Cave Creek Museum
hierarchical_section_title: List of historic properties in Cave Creek, Arizona / Cave Creek Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: Cave Creek Museum Entrance Marker at 6140 E. Skyline Dr. in Cave Creek Arizona.
context_page_description: This is a list, which includes a photographic gallery, of some of the remaining structures and monuments, of historic significance in Cave Creek, a town in Maricopa County, Arizona. Cave Creek was first inhabited by the ancient Native-American tribe known as the Hohokam. The area, which in the 1800s belonged to Mexico, was ceded to the United States in what is known as the Mexican Cession of 1848. Cave Creek is located within the area which became known as the United States Territory of Arizona. In 1986, The Town of Cave
  Creek was incorporated. Some of the structures are listed in the National Register of Historic Properties.
context_section_description: The land south of the Black Mountain was opened in 1920 for homesteading. The climate of the area was considered favorable for those who suffered of tuberculosis and soon tuberculosis cabins were built in Cave Creek. Located on the grounds of the Cave Creek Museum is a Tubercular Cabin, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The cabin was one of the cabins belonging to the Desmount Sanitarium, built in 1920. The Cave Creek Museum was opened in 1970 by the Cave Creek historical society. The society was established in 1968. Also among its outside exhibits are the First Church of Cave Creek, which was built in 1947; the Golden Reef Stamp Mill and the Cave Creek Bandshell which was built in 1900 and originally located in downtown Cave Creek.  The museum also has an Arrastre, which in Spanish means "to drag". The Arrastre, a crude crushing mill run by burro or oxen, was built in 1900.
caption: Cave Creek Museum entrance.
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