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The first post office was established on June 15, 1868, located in Swilling's homestead, ... Phoenix in the Twentieth Century: Essays in Community History.
Phoenix Fire Department established, when bond issue passes establishing 2 fire companies. [10] First private gas lighting company established. [14] First telephone company opens. [17] Phoenix Opera House is completed. [10] Arizona Insane asylum's construction is completed. [10] 1887 Maricopa-Phoenix railway and horse-drawn Street Railway begin ...
Phoenix's first newspaper was the weekly Salt River Valley Herald, established in 1878, which would change its name the following year to the Phoenix Herald. The paper would go through several additional name changes in its early years before finally settling on the Phoenix Herald, which still exists today in an online form. [319]
The first capital was established in 1864 at Prescott, in the northern Union-controlled area. The capital was moved to Tucson in 1868, and back to Prescott in 1877. [7] The capital was finally moved to Phoenix on February 4, 1889. [8] [9]
The first school in Phoenix was established in 1873. It was known as the Little Adobe School and it was located in 202 N. Central Avenue where the San Carlos Hotel currently stands. Schools were segregated then and therefore, so were many of the historic schools on this list.
Maricopa County (/ ˌ m ær ɪ ˈ k oʊ p ə /) is a county in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.As of the 2020 census the population was 4,420,568, [1] or about 62% of the state's total, making it the fourth-most populous county in the United States and the most populous county in Arizona, and making Arizona one of the nation's most centralized states.
Phoenix Fire Department established, when bond issue passes establishing 2 fire companies. [55] First private gas lighting company established in Phoenix. [58] First telephone company opens in Phoenix. [68] Phoenix Opera House is completed. [55] Arizona Insane asylum's construction is completed. [55] Casa Grande suffers from a devastating fire ...
In the early days, Jack Swilling was one of the most prominent leaders of the Phoenix settlement. The first post office was established on June 15, 1868, in Swilling's homestead, with Swilling serving as the postmaster. He was also the first justice of the peace.