Kearny, Arizona

Named in Honor of Stephen Watts Kearny

At the outbreak of the Mexican War in 1846, President Polk directed Colonel Kearny to organize the so-called "Army of the West" and to lead it to Santa Fe and thence on to secure ...

Sonora, Arizona

Immigrant Mexican miners working for the Ray Consolidated Copper Company named the town of Sonora, built near here in 1911. It boomed as a thriving, dynamic community. Rich in Mexican culture, language and traditions, in the mid -1950's. The company ...

Ash Fork, Arizona / The Coming of Route “66”

Ash Fork, Arizona

Founded 1882

The Coming of Route “66”

1926

Ash Fork was a junction point of the Old Trails (Route 66) and the Grand Canyon – Nogales Highways (US 89), leading to the southern sections of the state.

Pictured is Lewis Ave. “Route ...

Jerome, Arizona

Too Strong to Die

The first mining claims were filed in 1876, within 20 years Jerome was a billion dollar copper mecca and one of the wildest, wickedest mining towns in the west. Drinking, gambling, brawls and frolicking with ladies of ...

Simmons, Arizona

This is the site of ‘the crossing' on the Mojave-Prescott "Hardyville" toll road. The road was authorized by the first territorial legislature and was built by W. H. Hardy, connecting Prescott with Hardyville on the Colorado River.

William John Simmons built ...

Arizona Pioneers' Home

Territory of Arizona

MCMX ? MCXI

Home for Aged and Infirm Arizona Pioneers

Established by act of the Twenty-Fifth Legislature under the administration of Governor Joseph H. Kibbey.

Erected under the direction of the Board of Control, Richard E. Sloan, Governor. W. C. Foster ...

Arizona Pioneer Home

To those responsible for the Arizona pioneer's home

A. J. Doran

Introduced enabling legislation - 1907

Supervised construction - 1910

first superintendent – 1911

George D. Morris

Reintroduced

Successful enabling legislation – 1909

Joseph h. Kibbey - Governor

Signed legislation March 11, 1909

Frank M. Murphy & T.G. Norris

Donators of ...

A Memorial to the Inmates Who Died at the Arizona Territorial Pr

In memory of

the inmates, who lost their life

while serving their sentence, at the

Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma

Aldrete, Simon • Alejandra • Alveres, Thomas • Armbula, Tomas • Arnett, William • Arvizu, Gregorio • Baca, Antonio • Brooks, John • ...

U.S.S. Arizona 1916 - Wilber L. "Bill" Bower U of A Outstanding

The bell in this clock tower is one of the two original ship's bells salvaged from the battleship U.S.S. Arizona following the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. In 1944, Wilber L. "Bill" Bowers, UA Class of 1927, discovered ...

Mining in Arizona

Mining was the lure that opened Arizona to Anglo-American settlement and, subsequently, led to its statehood. However, Arizona mining began with the Spanish discovery of the rich Planchas de Plata silver deposits just west of Nogales in 1736. In the ...