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The Casa Grande Valley Historical Society was founded in 1964 to preserve and exhibit the history of the Casa Grande region. [4] The city has numerous historic properties which have been listed either in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or have been identified as historical by the Casa Grande Historic Preservation Program. The ...
In 1891, the monument underwent repairs supervised by Cosmos Mindeleff of the Bureau of American Ethnology, until funds ran out.Proclaimed Casa Grande Reservation on June 22, 1892 by Executive Order 28-A of President Benjamin Harrison, 480 acres around the ruins became the first prehistoric and cultural reserve in the United States. [9]
Casas Adobes is situated south and southwest of the town of Oro Valley, and west of the community of Catalina Foothills. The attempted assassination of Representative Gabby Giffords , and the murders of chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona , John Roll , and five other people on January 8, 2011, took place at a Safeway supermarket ...
Casa Grande was founded in 1879 during the Arizona mining boom, specifically due to the presence of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In January 1880, the community of Terminus, meaning "end-of-the-line," was established despite consisting of just five residents and three buildings. [7]
Tohono Chul (aka Tohono Chul Park) is a botanical garden, nature preserve, and cultural museum located in Casas Adobes, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. The words "tohono chul" translate as "desert corner" and are borrowed from the language of the Tohono O’odham, the indigenous people of southern Arizona.
Museum of Casa Grande: Casa Grande: Pinal: Phoenix area: Multiple: website, complex includes local history museum with exhibits of railroads, agriculture, mining, a schoolhouse, a stone church, a barn and vintage fire engines, operated by the Casa Grande Valley Historical Society Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson: Tucson: Pima: Southern: Art
Ancestral Puebloans spanned Northern Arizona and New Mexico, Southern Colorado and Utah, and a part of Southeastern Nevada. They primarily lived north of the Patayan, Sinagua, Hohokam, Trincheras, Mogollon, and Casas Grandes cultures of the Southwest [1] and south of the Fremont culture of the Great Basin.
The Casa Grande Woman's Club Building was designed by Tucson architect Henry Jaastad and built by Michael Sullivan. [6] It is a cobblestone-faced building, [6] built in 1924 in the Pueblo Revival style. [7] The Club Building was constructed with stones donated by club members, obtained from the nearby desert. [5]