Birthday Celebration of Sedona Schnebly, the City’s Namesake
The Sedona Heritage Museum will kickoff their year-long celebration of their 25th anniversary with a day of free admission for local* residents on Friday, February 24th. The 24th just happens to also be the 146th birthday of Sedona Schnebly, the city’s namesake. In her honor, the Sedona Chamber of Commerce will bring the cake and it will be served to guests beginning at 11 a.m., until it is it’s gone. Schnebly’s great-granddaughter, Lisa Schnebly Heidinger, will be present to cut the first pieces of cake and stay around to meet and greet visitors and sign copies of her book “The Journal of Sedona Schnebly.”
Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Museum Shop will be open. Regular admission for non-residents is $7/adults, age 12 and under are always free.
*Local residents are defined as anyone living in the Verde Valley (Sedona, Cottonwood, Jerome, Clarkdale, McGuireville, Rimrock, Cornville, Beaver Creek, etc.) and can show a drivers license or other I.D. with one of those addresses.
Born in 1877 to an upper middle-class lifestyle, Sedona Arabella Miller followed her heart against her parents’ wishes when she married Theodore Carlton Schnebly at age 20. Four years later, he moved his wife and two small children to Arizona Territory and a place with no name. When he applied for a post office from their new home, he submitted his wife’s name as the name for the new postal stop, and the rest is history. The Museum recently created a new exhibit about the Schnebly story.
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Sedona, AZ 86336
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