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 ...

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.

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