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Thatcher is a town in Graham County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2010 Census , the population of the town is 4,865. [ 4 ] It is part of the Safford Micropolitan Statistical Area .
It featured gray marble, oak cabinets and facilities that included storage vaults, safety deposit boxes and rooms for patrons to conduct business. The depression caused the Arizona Bank & Trust to close its offices in Safford, Pima and Thatcher late in 1923. The upper northwest corner still boasts its rod and light.
Safford was founded by Joshua Eaton Bailey, Hiram Kennedy, and Edward Tuttle, who came from Gila Bend, in southwestern Arizona.They left Gila Bend in the winter of 1873-74 because their work on canals and dams had been destroyed by high water the previous summer.
The Gila Valley Arizona Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Arizona town of Central, between the communities of Pima and Thatcher. The intent to build the temple was announced in a press release on April 26, 2008, by the church's First Presidency. [3] The temple is the third in Arizona. [4]
From 1883 to 1898, he served as president of the St. Joseph Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thatcher, Arizona. Christopher Layton reveals himself as a common man who achieved great success as a business man, a Church man and particularly as a family man, being a father of sixty-five children and a husband to ten wives.
Eastern Arizona College was chartered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1888. Classes started in a church room in Central, Arizona in 1890 with 17 students and was called the St. Joseph Stake Academy. In 1891, classes were moved to Thatcher, Arizona, to be more centralized and due to room constraints. The school continued to ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Arizona on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Gila Mountains lie northwest of Safford, Arizona and the Santa Teresa Mountains lie to the southwest across the Gila Valley. The highest point of the Gila Mountains is Slaughter Mountain at 6,556 feet (1,998 m); the Fishhooks Wilderness is located on the northwest end of the mountain range.