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Douglas Williams House
A small museum in Douglas, Arizona, displaying historic photographs and memorabilia from the surrounding area.
Double Adobe Site
A Whitewater Draw site excavated from 1926 by Byron Cummings and Emil Haury, which defined the Cochise culture in 1941.
- Rank in Arizona
- #371of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 39.8 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
The Double Adobe Site is an archaeological site in the Whitewater Draw area of southern Arizona, twelve miles north-west of Douglas. It was discovered by a schoolboy in October 1926, just three months after the first artefact was found at the Folsom site, and Byron Cummings, first head of the University of Arizona's Archaeology Department, led four students, including Emil Haury, to investigate; the site contained the skull of a mammoth overlying a sand layer with stone artefacts. Later investigators found the bones and artefacts mixed by redeposited stream sediments, complicating the early interpretations. Fossil bones of mammoth, horse, bison, antelope, coyote and dire wolf were found alongside fire-cracked rock, projectile points and small grinding stones, the last interpreted as evidence of adaptation to the warmer, drier conditions of the Holocene and the extinction of large Ice Age mammals, as the Clovis culture gave way to more regional Archaic traditions. E. B. Sayles and E. Antevs based their 1941 definition of the Cochise culture, the region's southern Archaic tradition, on excavations at the site. The Double Adobe Site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
Where it is
Double Adobe Site is a historic site near Douglas, in Cochise County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Double Adobe Site, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Douglas
- County
- Cochise County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Historic Landmark · National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 39.8 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 0.0
- Significance score
- 73.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 31.3500, -109.5333
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12