Indoors and Outdoors. [20] The Hohokam also carried out extensive trade with the nearby Anasazi, Mogollon and Sinagua, as well as with the more distant Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. The 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions, composed of African-American troops, trained there. The history of Arizona encompasses Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. From the farmers culture would emerge a tribe known as the Hohokam.
Inexperienced ranchers brought poor management, resulting in overstocking, and introduced destructive diseases. Central Arizona was first settled during the early 19th century by American settlers.
The Sisters of the Precious Blood opened St. Mary's Catholic High School in 1917. : Another Look at Banking During Arizona's Boom Years, 1950-1965. [16] The Phoenix City Council levied a $5,000,000 tax for a public library after the state legislature, in 1901, passed a bill allowing such a tax to support free libraries.
as the Great Plains of Kansas. Confederate Arizona was officially claimed by The South, and formally created by a proclamation by Jefferson Davis on February 14, 1862. In 1868 the Navajo signed another treaty and were allowed to go back to part of their former territory. They entered what is now Arizona near the New Mexico [17], In the aftermath, Virgil Earp was maimed in an ambush and Morgan Earp was assassinated while playing billiards. The history of Phoenix, Arizona, goes back millennia, beginning with nomadic paleo-Indians who existed in the Americas in general, and the Salt River Valley in particular, about 7,000 BC until about 6,000 BC.
[54], The Arizona Republic became a daily paper in 1890, with Ed Gill as its editor. They solidified Earp's modern reputation as the Old West's deadliest gunman. In 1863, Arizona was split off from the Territory of New Mexico to form the Arizona Territory. In 1853, President Franklin Pierce sent James Gadsden to Mexico City to negotiate with Santa Anna, and the United States bought the remaining southern strip area of Arizona and New Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase. Arizona - Arizona - History: Although the region’s physical environment may appear inhospitable to habitation and subsistence, Arizona contains some of North America’s oldest records of human occupation.
By the time the first Europeans arrived at the beginning of the 16th century, the two main groups of native Indians who inhabited the area were the O'odham and Sobaipuri tribes. Coronado continued eastward on his epic journey, discovering the Rio Grande and continuing as far east
By October 1873, a small school was completed on Center Street (now Central Avenue). On May 18, 1911, the former President himself dedicated the dam, which was the largest masonry dam in the world, forming several new lakes in the surrounding mountain ranges. They attracted votes across party lines, as did Goldwater himself, as well as Governor Howard Pyle, Congressman John Rhodes and numerous others. The color lines were so rigid that no one north of Van Buren Street would rent to the African-American baseball star Willie Mays, in town for spring training in the 1960s. Originally 1919 - Grand Canyon National Park is founded.
on February 14, 1912, the last of the 48 coterminous United States to be admitted to the union.
[4] Small skirmishes were common between raiding Navajo and counter raiding citizens.
[16][17] Hohokam is a present-day name given to the occupants of central and southern Arizona who lived here between about the year 1 and 1450 CE (current era). [58], In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the National Reclamation Act, allowing for dams to be built on western streams for reclamation purposes. The restaurant was located near the southwest corner of Central Avenue and Indian School Road. Eugene C. Pulliam, owner of the city's major newspaper the Arizona Republic, provided extensive publicity.
1864 - Kit Carson captures approximately 7,000 Navajo indians in Canyon de Chelly, forcing them to leave Arizona. [76], Barry Goldwater (1909–1998) was one of the city's most prominent local, statewide and national leaders.
[11] They hunted Pleistocene animals, such as mammoths, mastodons, giant bison, ancient horses, camels, and giant sloths, remains of which have been discovered in the Salt River Valley.
Illegal immigration continued to be a prime concern within the state, and in April 2010, Arizona SB1070 was passed and signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer. On February 14, 1871, following a vote by the territorial legislature, Governor Anson P.K. Affordable cooling in the decade contributed to a wild building boom.
Three men died and eleven were wounded in the riot.
[16], After the stock market crash of 1929, Sky Harbor was sold to another investor, and in 1930 American Airlines brought passenger and air mail service to Phoenix. [16][69][70][71], Mexican-American local organizations enthusiastically supported the war effort, providing encouragement for the large number of men who enlisted, and assistance for their families. The first was Fort Defiance.
Grineski, Sara E., Bob Bolin, and Victor Agadjanian.