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=== The Town === | === The Town === | ||
The original town of Ray consisted of one short main street with small businesses on both sides of the street. By 1909 the company had constructed a hospital and there are birth certificates from the hospital that date back to 1910. There was usually a doctor in Ray and the hospital employed at least 3 nurses and a cook according to Census Records. Records from the old hospital at Ray are now kept in a small health clinic in Kearny, Arizona. The elementary school (Lincoln Elementary) had grades 1 through 8 in eight classrooms. By 1954, another small building was constructed and a Kindergarten was added to the curriculum. Ray High School was a short walk uphill from the elementary school. There was a small cemetery, but that too was claimed by the open pit and the remains were moved and re interred at a new cemetery in Kearny. Ray didn't have a newspaper, but people in the small town subscribed to The Arizona Republic, a newspaper in Phoenix. Ray had four churches: an Episcopal church from around 1906 until 1929 or so (the original bell from which is in an Episcopal church in Coolidge, Arizona), a Baptist church near the high school, a Methodist church on "church hill" leading up to Boyd Heights and | The original town of Ray consisted of one short main street with small businesses on both sides of the street. By 1909 the company had constructed a hospital and there are birth certificates from the hospital that date back to 1910. There was usually a doctor in Ray and the hospital employed at least 3 nurses and a cook according to Census Records. Records from the old hospital at Ray are now kept in a small health clinic in Kearny, Arizona. The elementary school (Lincoln Elementary) had grades 1 through 8 in eight classrooms. By 1954, another small building was constructed and a Kindergarten was added to the curriculum. Ray High School was a short walk uphill from the elementary school. There was a small cemetery, but that too was claimed by the open pit and the remains were moved and re interred at a new cemetery in Kearny. Ray didn't have a newspaper, but people in the small town subscribed to The Arizona Republic, a newspaper in Phoenix. Ray had four churches: an Episcopal church from around 1906 until 1929 or so (the original bell from which is in an Episcopal church in Coolidge, Arizona), a Baptist church near the high school, a Methodist church on "church hill" leading up to Boyd Heights and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a little house in Boyd Heights.Catholics in the town attended the Catholic Church in the nearby small town on Sonora, Arizona. <br> | ||
=== Modern Day Ray, a Ghost Town === | === Modern Day Ray, a Ghost Town === | ||