Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum

06/13/2026

What a great time was had by all at our Grand Opening of the Honor Quilts exhibit! The local veterans who will be receiving one of the 17 quilts is posted! Come see! There will be a presentation ceremony at 3pm in the Bullion Plaza Gym (building behind the museum) on Thursday, July 2. The quilts will be on display there for the ceremony and the Liberty Dinner, Cobre Valley Independence Day Celebration, which starts at 4pm.

THANK YOU, Debbie Yerkovich, for the gift of this video!

06/13/2026

The Band Imagine live at Bullion Plaza front steps!! Come join us!

06/12/2026

Tonight, starting at 6pm, the Grand Opening of the Honor Quilts exhibit will be held here at the museum, during the Live Music on the Front Lawn event. Both events are free! The quilt exhibit will be open through the month of June, then be moved next door in the Bullion Plaza gym to display during the Freedom Dinner, Thursday, July 2. A special ceremony for the quilt exhibits will be held on July 2 at 3pm for the veterans receiving a quilt.

06/12/2026

Leon Garlinghouse has worked hard to preserve our community's history through preservation and restoration of our cemeteries! Congratulations!

On June 9 Avery Frantz of the Sons of Confederate Veterans presented GCHS Secretary Leon Garlinghouse with the “Graves Award” certificate and medal in recognition of his outstanding efforts in the preservation, restoration and safeguarding of the graves of our ancestors.

06/06/2026

We had a quilt top donated after the deadline, so Lee Ann Powers is pinning it while watching after the Honor Quilts exhibit today. We're open till 3pm today, so come on down and watch what she's doing and see all the beautiful patriotic quilts to commemorate our country's 250th anniversary! The exhibit is open Wed-Sat from 10am to 2pm, now through the end of June

Don't forget the Live Music on the Front Lawn this coming Friday! We'll open the doors at 6pm for the Grand Opening of the Honor Quilts exhibit, then Neto & Imagine will play starting at 6:30pm. It's all free, but bring your own Lawn chairs to sit in, and your own beverages.

06/03/2026

Our researcher, Lee Ann Powers, attended Certified Local Government (CLG) training last weekend through the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). She is one of five people appointed by the Town of Miami to help the Town create and preserve a historic district, which will provide guidance. This is not a regulatory group, but a group to assist. She says she's excited to bring what she's learned about Miami's historic buildings to help with this process. More about this in the months to come.

06/03/2026

Get your hard rock fix Monday through Thursday from 5-7pm on Bullion Plaza Radio with Desert Dial-Up W/ Big Jim and Slightly Smaller Dave

06/02/2026

Tomorrow is the "soft opening" of the Honor Quilts exhibit here at Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum, celebrating our veterans for our country's 250th anniversary. The exhibit will be open from 10am to 5pm Wed-Sat for the month of June. These are all donated quilts by local quilters, include THREE 4H'ers! We received 16 quilts in all!

Local veteran recipients will be announced at the Grand Opening, to be held during the 2nd Friday Live Music on the Front Lawn event on Friday, June 12, starting at 6pm. At the end of June, the quilts will be moved to be displayed next door in the Bullion Gym for the Cobre Valley Independence Day Celebration Dinner, Thursday, July 2. A small ceremony to present the quilts to our local veteran recipients will be held at 3pm.

We are looking for people to sponsor veteran quilt recipients, so they can have a ticket for the Indendence Day dinner. A donation of $35 will pay for one veteran. Message me or Linda Hale-Merlin to arrange for that. We already have one generous donor!

I will be needing some volunteers to help move the exhibit from the museum to the gym on Wednesday, July 1 (don't have a time yet), and to break the exhibit down after the dinner on July 2.

05/25/2026

We unveiled the refurbished veterans memorial at the old stone cottages this morning, on Memorial Day. Our assistant director, Tom Meredith, and volunteer, Pilar Carbajal, worked hard to repair and refurbished this memorial, which across from Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum.