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         The Sedona Wedding Guide/Planner is a guide to assist you in coordinating your wedding day and

ensures  you will have the most wonderful day with your loved one that you both have been looking forward to. We

have the best of the best for where to select the perfect formalwear, the most beautiful floral arrangements,

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Marriage License

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Jam-N-Sounds 809 W Riordan Rd Ste 100 #133 Flagstaff, AZ 86001 (928) 556-1442

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WEDDING AND RECEPTION LOCATIONS

Iron Horse Inn Durango  5800 North Main Avenue, Durango, CO  81301
 

CATERING

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Troia's Pizza Pasta Amore' 1885 W State Route 89A Sedona, AZ 86336 (928) 282-0123

Cucina Rustica 7000 State Route 179 Ste 126-A, Tequa Festival Marketplace Sedona, AZ 86351 (928) 284-3010

 
Joey Bistro 160 Portal Ln Sedona, AZ 86336 (928) 204-5639

Cowboy Club 241 N State Route 89A Sedona, AZ 86336 (928) 282-4200

 
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When and where did you first meet?
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In a rather bizarre manner, the history of this area does not have its roots in Sedona, which T.C. Schnebly named after

his wife in 1902. Instead, the story had its beginning in Oak Creek Canyon, where Glenn Kilbourne and Carley Burch,

the main characters in Zane Grey's The Call of the Canyon, lived and loved under looming, stone walls and whispering

pines.

Long before Grey hunted, fished and wrote in the wild and lonely canyon, however, the first settler to heed the call, J.J.

Thompson, claimed property under this country's 1862 Homestead Act. In 1876, Thompson took squatters rights to a

parcel of land across from today's Indian Gardens Store, where a year earlier, scouts from Fort Verde now, Camp Verde,

had captured a small band of Tonto Apache Indians.

When Thompson took his land, he found the Indian's deserted gardens and a healthy spring, which encouraged him to

build a log cabin. He called his home Indian Gardens Ranch, but later he shortened it to Indian Gardens. After

Thompson homesteaded in the canyon, more settlers heard the call, and they came to raise horses and cattle. They

dug irrigation ditches so they could plant crops, too and in particular, they established orchards. During the ensuing

decades, trails and cowpaths in the canyon became dirt roads, and this attracted more people. One of these early

residents was Frank Pendley, who became the most notable farmer in the history of Oak Creek Canyon because his

pioneer spirit and engineering skills enabled him to construct an innovative irrigation system. He succeeded where many

others had failed to the extent that his apples and pears were sold at markets in Jerome, Cottonwood, Phoenix and Los

Angeles. Fact is, Pendley's irrigation system still is used at Slide Rock State Park, site of his early homestead.

South of J.J. Thompson's newly named Indian Gardens, the Abraham James family earned the distinction of being the

first residents of this immediate community, which was destined to be called Camp Garden, and then Sedona. James,

his wife and son moved here in 1879, and apparently James is the guy this community can thank for making it a popular

tourist attraction more than 100 years later. Yes, James was a prolific originator of place names especially for this

community's spectacular red-rock formations.

However, Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes of the Smithsonian Institute also deserves credit, because after naming the two

largest cliff dwellings in this area Palatki and Honanki in 1895, this archaeologist predicted that Red Rock Country

would become extremely popular with tourists.

As for James, according to records left by old-timers, he named Bell Rock, Steamboat Rock, Court Rock and Church

Rock. Years later, Court Rock and Church Rock became Courthouse Rock and Cathedral Rock, and the names were

reversed with regard to the rock formations.

During the same year that Thompson settled in Oak Creek Canyon, 1876, Beaver Head Stage Station was built near Dry

Beaver Creek, 12 miles south of what now is Sedona. This station was located on the very old road from Winslow to

Yuma, which branched off the route of what was to be the Santa Fe Railroad and Hwy 66. Later, a rough road extended

from the stage station to Big Park, which was named Village of Oakcreek in 1968. Here, the road continued north to the

area that was to be Sedona, and it also branched west to Red Rock, a settlement on Oak Creek best described as the

area between what was to become known as Red Rock Crossing and today's Red Rock State Park.

John Lee settled near the crossing at the same time as Thompson claimed land in Oak Creek Canyon, and Margaret Ann

Jackson made 1876 an even more significant year in this areas history when she became the first white woman to live on

lower Oak Creek. Also, Henry Schuerman acquired a 160-acre farm south of Lee's property, where the state park is

located, in 1884.

As the story of this community's early history goes, T.C. and Sedona Schnebly were attracted to Upper Oak Creek or

Camp Garden both names were being used at that time. Strangely, these names were totally appropriate because during

the past 100 years, unnumbered families and individuals have been drawn here by the raving descriptions of friends and

relatives. In the case of T.C. and Sedona, it was T.C's brother, Dorsey Ellsworth Schnebly, who discovered Red Rock

Country while seeking an ideal climate and atmosphere for his health. According to the recorded testimony of Ellsworth

Schnebly, son of T.C. and Sedona, his uncle was inspired by the discovery of towering red rocks interfused with forested

greenery, as well as vast acreage surrounded by meandering, clear Oak Creek.

Having purchased an 80-acre site from Frank Owenby after traveling from Kansas in late 1901, T.C. constructed a

handsome house with two stone fireplaces near the location of present-day Los Abrigados Resort and Tlaquepaque

Arts and Crafts Village. And when residents of this small settlement complained to T.C. about slow and infrequent mail

service, he immediately filed an application for the establishment of a post office.

Various reports indicate that T.C. suggested calling the post office Schnebly Station, then Red Rock Crossing and even

Oak Creek Station and most of these reports state that the names were not accepted by the government because they

were too long to fit on a cancellation stamp. Subsequently, T.C's brother, Dorsey Ellsworth, thought of submitting the

name of T.C's wife, Sedona. And after telling T.C. that in the person there was a character that would stand well as a

symbol for the community, he turned to Sedona and said, You're going to have a town named after you.

Postal officials approved the name Sedona, and on June 26, 1902, the post office was in business in the back of the

Schnebly home.
 

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