Editing Fredonia, Arizona (section)

==History==
Fredonia was laid out in 1886.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Volumes 9-10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L7M3AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA128|year=1918|page=128}}</ref> Its name is said to mean the "land of free women."<ref name="azrep_88"/>

The town's cemetery<ref>[http://fredoniaaz.net/Departments/Cemetery.aspx Town of Fredonia – Cemetery]</ref> has graves dating from the 1880s.<ref>{{GNIS|2789785|Fredonia Cemetery}}</ref>

The town suffered economically from the re-routing of [[U.S. Route 89 in Arizona|U.S. 89]] in 1960. While the highway previously went through Fredonia, it was re-routed north of the [[Glen Canyon Dam|Glen Canyon dam]], and the town lost several businesses due to a drop in traffic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/516013937/|title=Highway Shift at Glen Canyon Dam Gets Boom in Kanab, Doom in Fredonia|date=February 11, 1964|publisher=Arizona Daily Sun|page=1}}</ref>

Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] gave the commencement at Fredonia High School in 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/516812770/|title=Barry in Brief Trip to 'His Lucky Town'|date=May 19, 1964|publisher=Arizona Daily Sun}}</ref>

Kaibab Forest Products was the major industry in town until 1995, when it closed and laid off 200 workers.<ref name="forgotten"/> It had employed up to 400 workers in 1988.<ref name="azrep_88">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121149261/|title=Long-isolated Fredonia goes its own way|date=February 21, 1988|first=Steve|last=Daniels|publisher=Arizona Republic|page=MS29}}</ref> The [[Arizona One mine]] is also located nearby.<ref name="forgotten">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/519348619|title=Is Fredonia forgotten?|first=Emery|last=Cowan|publisher=Arizona Daily Sun|date=July 16, 2017|page=1}}</ref>