Bullion Plaza School

The children sent to Bullion Plaza were Mexican and Apache, and that was the point. A 1909 Arizona law kept them out of Miami's white high school, so the district built this handsome 1924 building to hold them apart. Teachers punished children for speaking Spanish or Apache; the town pool admitted them one day a week, before it was drained. Miami desegregated in 1951, three years ahead of the Supreme Court. The building is a museum now, telling on itself at last.

What the plaque says

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior Bullion Plaza School 1923 .

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oak Flat — 11 mi
  Chi'chil Bildagoteel — the Apache sacred ground a copper mine is set to swallow

More markers nearby

• Globe Mine Rescue Station — 5.0 mi
• Old Dominion Mine — 5.0 mi
• The Hanging Tree — 5.2 mi
• City of Globe — 5.3 mi