Included are photographs of properties identified as once belonging to Adamsville, a small farming town, which was destroyed by a flood in 1990.

Florence was founded on the southern boundary of the Gila River by Levi Ruggles, a veteran of the American Civil War.

The town is sixty-one miles southeast of Phoenix, in the Pinal County of Arizona, United States.

[1] Florence, which is the county seat of Pinal County, is one of the oldest towns there and is regarded as a National Historic District with over 25 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Some artifacts left behind by the former POW inmates are on display in the First Pinal County Courthouse museum.

[7][8] The Arizona Preservation Foundation is an agency which identifies critically endangered cultural resources of major historical significance to the state.

Among the notable residents of Florence whose houses are considered are Pauline Cushman an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War, Richard E. Sloan, Arizona's last Territorial Governor and Thomas Fulbright, lawyer who wrote a book titled "Cow Country Counselor".

Whose spirit left his body on this spot, and whose characterization and portrayals in life served to better fix memories of the Old West in the minds of living men The Pinal County Museum was founded in 1959.

The current building where the museum is located was built in 1970 and houses exhibits of early Native-American artifacts, day-to-day early pioneer life in Florence and prison Artifacts.

The town had stores, homes, a post office and a flour mill and water tanks.