Corral made the shootout famous and the public was incorrectly led to believe it was the actual location of the altercation.

Despite the historical inaccuracy, the corral is marketed as the location of the shootout, and visitors can pay to see a re-enactment of the gunfight.

Corral was owned at the time by "Honest John" Montgomery and Edward Monroe Benson.

The corral and livery also cared for transient stock, and provided buggies, carriages, and wagons with teams of horses.

According to testimony after the shootout, the outlaw Cowboys who fought the Earps and Doc Holliday went from Dexter's Livery Stable, where they had left their horses, to Spangenberg's gun shop on Fourth Street.

Citizens reported the threats and the armed Cowboys' movements to Tombstone City Marshal Virgil Earp.

On April 19, 1881, the city had passed ordinance#9 requiring anyone carrying a bowie knife, dirk, pistol, or rifle[11][12] to deposit their weapons at a livery or saloon soon after entering town.

[13] The ordinance was the legal basis for City Marshall Virgil Earp's decision to confront the Cowboys that resulted in the shoot out.

Corral, they found the Cowboys gathered in a narrow 15–20 feet (4.6–6.1 m) wide lot[15] adjacent to C. S. Fly's 12-room boarding house and photography studio at 312 Fremont Street.

Corral, along with The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper, the Crystal Palace Saloon, and Schieffelin Hall in 1964.

[21] In 2004, the town's focus on tourism led the National Park Service (NPS) to threaten to remove its designation as a National Historic Landmark District, a status it earned in 1961 as "one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged frontier town of the 1870s and '80s."