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Escalante Ruin
The Escalante Ruin was first investigated in 177...
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Canyon de Chelly National Monument (pronounce...
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
Hubbell Trading Post was founded in 1878 when...
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument has over 240 pre...
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Montezuma Castle was built by prehistoric Sinagu...
Fort Apache Historic District
Constructed between 1874 and 1932, the Fort A...
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, administered by the National Park S...
La Casa Cordova
La Casa Cordova, now a part of the Tucson Museum...
El Presidio Historic District
The El Presidio Historic District is a residential neighbo...
San Xavier del Bac
Called the "White Dove of the Desert," San Xavie...
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Escalante Ruin
The Escalante Ruin was first investigated in 1776 by the Domínguez-Escalante Expedition looking for a northern route from the New Mexico missions to the ones at Monterey, California. The Ruin consists of a partially excavated multi-storied masonry pueblo with ...
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Canyon de Chelly National Monument (pronounced "canyon d'shay"), contains over 2500 archeological sites ranging from 1500 B.C. to 1350 A.D. and is considered one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in North America. Among these sites are several hundred ...
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
Hubbell Trading Post was founded in 1878 when John Lorenzo Hubbell bought out another trader, "Old Man" William Leonard. Trading posts played a unique role in reservation life, serving as places of business, social life and contact with other ...
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument has over 240 prehistoric Sinagua Indian sites. These include pit house villages built between 500 and 800 A.D. and several multi-room cliff dwellings and single-room field houses c. 1125 and 1250 A.D. By about 1250 ...
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Montezuma Castle was built by prehistoric Sinagua Indians in the early 1100s and received its name from Anglo-American settlers who believed, mistakenly, that it had been built by Aztec Indians. Situated in a cliff recess 100 feet above the ...
Fort Apache Historic District
Constructed between 1874 and 1932, the Fort Apache Historic District encompasses the original site of the Fort Apache military post. Fort Apache was a major outpost during the Apache wars (1861-1886) and remained a military post until 1922. In ...
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande, administered by the National Park Service, is one of the most intriguing prehistoric ruins in the United States. Built by the Hohokam Indians in the Gila Valley sometime between 1150 and 1350 A.D., the four-story building and ...
La Casa Cordova
La Casa Cordova, now a part of the Tucson Museum of Art, may be the oldest surviving building in Tucson. The one-story adobe house is of typical Mexican town house design with a flat roof, central brick courtyard and ...
El Presidio Historic District
The El Presidio Historic District is a residential neighborhood containing adobe and brick buildings in the Spanish-Mexican, Anglo-American and Eclectic architectural styles. Named for the Spanish-built Presidio de San Augustín del Tucson (1775), El Presidio is one of the nation's ...
San Xavier del Bac
Called the "White Dove of the Desert," San Xavier Del Bac is one of the most beautiful mission church complexes in the Southwest. The original mission was founded in 1692 by a Jesuit missionary, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, to ...
