Tombstone, Arizona, dates to 1877, when prospector Ed Schieffelin discovered silver and named his first mine Tombstone. By 1879, a town had sprung up in a relatively flat area nearby, drawing gunslingers, gamblers, prospectors, Chinese laborers, and fancy ladies. Shortly after the mine opened, a slight hill northwest of town was chosen for a graveyard, originally called the Old City Cemetery. Founded in 1878, it stopped accepting new burials around 1884. A graveyard called Boothill denoted a settlement where men died with their boots on. The graves there were originally heaped with stones to keep varmints from stealing the bones, and those stone heaps and historic records later helped in making new grave markers, though a number of the pioneers buried there went to their final rewards anonymously.