Acadia Ranch Museum

Edwin and Lillian Dodge built this adobe ranch house in Oracle in 1882 as a boarding house, and by the turn of the century it was taking in tuberculosis patients drawn to the dry desert air. Several died here. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now houses the Oracle Historical Society's museum, open on Saturday afternoons and free to visit. Staff and visitors describe a nurse's presence, said in local telling to have caught the disease from her patients and to be looking after people still, and a second presence that objects to anything hung on the north wall of the main room — pictures left there overnight are found taken down and propped on the floor.