The park is named after the legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine. That legend begins in the mid-1800s, with a man coming to the Arizona Territory looking to strike it rich. "Jacob Waltz was a German ...

In the 1870s, Jacob Waltz, known as “the Dutchman,” even though he was German, and his partner, Jacob Weiser, allegedly located and began working in one of the lost mines. They hid their ...