Sometimes known as the "lighthouse in the desert", Cullen's Well was the only stable source of water between Wickenburg and Ehrenberg. There was a light at the top of a pole at the site to guide travelers at night, which is where the name "lighthouse in the desert" came from. Built by Charles C. Cullen, this well was started in the mid 1800's and continued well after Cullen's death in 1878. One story as to the light's origin was that a young man died within shouting distance of the well, and so the light was put up to prevent that from happening again. Today, only part of the well is left.---

UPDATE: To Whom It May Concern: To get to the Well via Highway US 60 ..........per your directions go 1/2 mile West of Gladden and head North 2.9 miles. The 2.9 miles is ok but the road is located at mile post 71.3 (71.3 miles East of the state border with California) and this about 4 + miles W. of Gladden! All Arizona State and Federal Road are marked with mile post signs every mile starting with #1 on the Western Border and #1 at the Southern Border, they increase by increments of one for each additional mile (yes and some driver run over them so a few may be missing here and there! (Increasing from West to East and South to North) The road is almost washed out from recent severe flooding off the Centennial Wash just North of the Grave sites and Well. A high clearance 2 wd could make it but I couldn't get there in my family car last Sat. The Well site is actually in La Paz County, Az and not in Maricopa County as per your map and site marker on it! When the well was built, it was in Yuma County, AZ. Yuma County split in half creating La Paz for the Northern half or so. Your basic information was enough for me to find the well anyway because my past experience with Ghost Town locations is that ........they are usually wrong to varying degrees. The well cement chunks that were bulldozed into it are not in sight! They must have sunk in the mud from the water of the recent floods (2 of them) and hole is an estimated 8-10 feet deep and about 10 feet across with stretch cracks around the periphery that more is about to cave in .....(these cracks in the earth are outside the fence that was built around the well itself). Amazingly the floods, did not bother the graves but we could only find 5 of them including the one you picture with the cross on Cullen's Grave. A friend that lives in Wenden, Az about 10 miles West of the site told me Saturday that there were originally a bunch of cavalry soldiers burried there also! I could not find any evidence to support this but there obviously was much more there in the 1800's than just a stage stop and a well. (judging by previously cut wood planks, posts etc and nails all over the place with the rusted tin cans etc) For Your Information John Kerr.

UPDATE: To Whom It May Concern: Today I went to the Cullen's Well area only to be greeted by a Bureau of Land Management sign which has declared the area off limits to excavating (metal detecting & digging) and claiming it an "Arhaeological Site." The sign also warns that the area is being "Monitored!" For Your Information To Would Be Metal Detectorists wanting to hunt therein. John Kerr

To Whom It May Concern: Hopefully there is a photo attached of Cullen's Well taken in early 2001. There was a disasterous flood in the area in Dec 2000 that apparently caved in the remains of the cement pieces shown in your photo. There was flood evidence for over a mile away from the Centennial Wash in the area and that wash resulted in fatal injuries at Wenden plus damages in he towns of Wenden, parts of Salome and some lesser towns way Southwards of Salome. Sincerely John