The Hayden Flour Mill

Charles T. Hayden built a store and a freighting headquarters on the Salt River; October 1871 is considered to be the “official” founding day of the city of Tempe, Arizona. In 1870, Charles and his family built the Hayden Flout ...

Manzanar Auditorium

The United States government established Manzanar Internment Camp, or Manzanar War Relocation Center, in California in 1942. In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the government feared sabotage by those of Japanese descent within the country, especially ...

National Historic Landmark - Manzanar Internment Camp

While many of our national monuments celebrate the tradition of American freedom, the Manzanar National Historic Site serves as a reminder of the fragile nature of our individual civil rights. Located just east of the Sierra Nevada, in the Owens ...

Mesa Verde National Park

Mesa Verde National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Montezume County, Colorado. Mesa Verde National Park is over 81 square miles, located near the Four Corners Monument. The park was dedicated in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt to ...

Mesa Verde Spruce Tree House

In 1888, two ranchers sought after stray cattle, and stumbled upon the remains of a thirteenth-century cliff-dwelling of the Ancestral Pueblo people. According to the legend of discovery, a tree grew from in front of the remnants of the Native ...

Old Town Albuquerque

Old Town Albuquerque is the picturesque historic district in the heart of New Mexico's largest city. Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdez founded Villa de Albuquerque in 1706 a few hundred yards from the Rio Grande, constructing the town around a ...

Palo Duro State Park

Established on July 4, 1934, on the northern side of the Palo Duro Canyon, the Palo Duro Canyon State Park encompasses over 16,000 acres. It is located in Armstrong and Randall County in Texas. Built in the 1930s, the Civilian ...

Sands Hotel

The Sands resort opened on December 15th, 1952. Built by Billy Wilkerson, the former owner of the Flamingo, the structure cost 5.5 million dollars. The hotel and casino found its home on a popular strip in Las Vegas.

The opening party, ...

Sangre de Christos Mountains

A sixteenth-century Spanish missionary received heavy wounds during a skirmish with Native Americans, who had been forcefully pressured to serve as guides to the traveling Europeans as they ventured from Mexico to the American Southwest. As the missionary paddled out ...

Gammage Auditorium

Frank Lloyd Wright’s last commission, the Gammage Auditorium, also known as the ASU Gammage, debuted in 1964. Completed five years after Wright’s death in 1959, Wright designed the auditorium at the request of Arizona State University’s president Grady Gammage.

Neither ...