Observed arrival · 2026-10-08
The Mountain View Hotel’s missing founders
A local-history archive documents William “Curly” Neal and Annie Box Neal, who opened Oracle, Arizona’s Mountain View Hotel in 1895.
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The account says Neal ran a freight and stagecoach operation before opening the hotel with Annie in 1895; the site reports that their hotel operated for nearly fifty years. It describes Annie as publishing music as a teenager and hosting guests at the Mountain View for decades. Some photographs are marked as awaiting permission from the Arizona Historical Society.
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