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The history of Phoenix, Arizona, goes back millennia, ... The first post office was established on June 15, 1868, located in Swilling's homestead, ...
Phoenix Light & Fuel (electricity and heat) is established [22] 1885 Arizona Canal completed. [10] Phoenix broken up into four wards, although city officials remain citywide offices. [10] Destructive fire destroys major portions of the town. [10] Arizona Insane Asylum is awarded to Phoenix. [10] 1886
The Phoenix Union High School was established in 1895 with an enrollment of 90. ... As the capital of Arizona, Phoenix houses the state legislature, [283] ...
South Mountain Community College, part of the Maricopa Community College District, is established in Phoenix. The Arizona Museum for Youth, the only children's museum in the United States focusing on fine art, is founded. Now known as the I.d.e.a. Museum. [218] 1981 President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court ...
The Spanish established a few missions in southern Arizona in the 1680s by ... an assessment of municipal water-conservation policy in greater Phoenix, Arizona, 1980 ...
The Territory of Arizona, commonly known as the Arizona Territory, was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, [1] until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.
On Thursday afternoon, February 19, 1931, the Maricopa Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in a simple ceremony with the presence of Arizona Governor George W. P. Hunt, unveiled and dedicated to the memory of Jack and Trinidad Swilling, a fountain which stands in the park directly in front of the courthouse building in Phoenix ...
The original Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix. The capital of Arizona is Phoenix. The original Capitol building, with its distinctive copper dome, was dedicated in 1901 (construction was completed for $136,000 in 1900) when the area was a territory. Phoenix became the official state capital with Arizona's admission to the union in 1912. [125]