Over Dragoons 140+ years of existence, Dragoon has had a suburb that has swung from having most of Dragoons populations pre 1900 to today when it has maybe two dozen residents as compared to the 200+ residents of the Village of Dragoon and another 300 residents of its immediate surroundings. 

Johnsonville was renamed Russellville after a military man named Russell and his group held off an Apache raid. The town was so thankful the changed their name in his honor.

The town actually had two locations when it was moved from its first location to follow mining activity a couple miles away, but it all remained in that general area. 

The town was quite developed at one point having stores, theater, church, saloons, post office, school, pool halls, meat market, dairy grocery and barber shop. It had stagecoach service daily to Dragoon and eventually got its own rail spur that has long since been removed. 

In this picture of main street Johnsonville, looking toward Peabody mine,  number 2 and 3 are pool halls, 4 is the theater, 5 is the butcher shop, beyond five is the lumber yard. Between 2 and is a residence and hotel. 6 is a general store. 

The town supported over two dozen mines and dozens of prospects! 

Photo courtesy of the Sulphur Springs Valley Historical Society