This book, becoming increasingly rarer, is THE essential book of Oracle history. Wood came to Oracle in 1902, lived here and bought land that was the Southern Belle (Peppersauce and the Y-Camp area). Almost any local topic is covered in this little, 82 page, book.

This book, becoming increasingly rarer, is THE essential book of Oracle history. Wood came to Oracle in 1902, lived here and bought land that was the Southern Belle (Peppersauce and the Y-Camp area). Almost any local topic is covered in this little, 82 page, book.

This is THE touchstone history of Oracle, relied on as a basis for what is known about Oracle's past. By Oracle benefactor Elizabeth Lambert Wood, who came to the area in 1902, lived at the Mt. View, gave property to the YMCA camp and the "boys ranch" now Sycamore Canyon Academy. She also left the current skate park and the land on which the Community Center was built to the community of Oracle. She lived in Oracle off and on until she died in 1964. Her family story is tragic, losing her son, her daughter and her only grandchild.