The pair founded the Stonewall Jackson mine which eventually turned into McMillenville, named after McMillen who discovered the silver.

The town soon was bolstered with several adobe saloons, dance halls, boarding houses, casinos, as well as homes for hundreds of people, public buildings and the mining structures.

After Jack Brown and his killer had a long argument, the two met on the main street and fought a duel.

Hundreds of natives fled after the Battle of Cibecue Creek who then went to Mexico or began raided across the Southwest.

The women and children were rushed to the mine shaft with a few men for protection, the rest armed themselves and made a position out of a large two-story adobe building.

The Apaches attacked with dozens of warriors, they swarmed the small town until they reached the makeshift fortification.

[2] Almost nothing remains of the mines and mill, and only scattered ruins of the adobe buildings of the town mark the site of McMillenville today.