Tubac Presidio State Historic Park

Tubac Presidio (San Ignacio de Tubac) was established in 1752 in response to the Pima Indian Rebellion, an uprising to protest forced labor in local mines and ranches. The presidio (fort) was intended to protect the various missions in ...

Tubac Presidio

Here stood the original Spanish presidio or fort established as San Ignacio de Tubac after the Pima uprising of 1751. Captain Juan Bautista de Anza was in command in 1775, when he led his famous expedition to California to found ...

Churches in Tubac

Several Tubac churches have stood on this site. The first, a shelter built by Jesuit missionaries in the early 1700's, was administered from Tumacacori. About 1760 Captain De Anza built a chapel for presidio soldiers. A later church was visited ...

Tubac Schools

In 1789, Toribio Otero received the first land grant in this area in exchange for teaching school at his ranch. A school district was established in 1876 and in 1885 T. Lillie Mercer built this school, one of the earliest ...

Presidio of Tubac

Garrisoned by Spanish

in 1752

First Town established in

Arizona by Europeans

Here on March 3, 1859

the Weekly Arizonian was published -- Arizona's

first newspaper.

Marker can be reached from Tubac Road near Cll Iglesia Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tubac

Originally an Indian village, Tubac is the oldest European settlement in Arizona. It was established as the Royal Spanish Presidio San Ignacio De Tubac in 1752, after an uprising of Pima Indians. In 1775 Captain Juan Bautista De Anza led ...