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The following is a timeline of the history of the area which today comprises the U.S. state of ... near the Guevavi mission. ... The oldest synagogue in Arizona ...
The mission that survives today was built between 1783 and 1797, which makes it the oldest European structure in Arizona. Labor was provided by the O'odham. [1] An outstanding example of Spanish Colonial architecture in the United States, the Mission San Xavier del Bac hosts some 200,000 visitors each year. [1]
Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert (including Sonora and southern Arizona) On general missionary history: Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery; List of the oldest churches in Mexico; On colonial Spanish American history: Spanish colonization of the Americas; California mission clash of cultures
Mission San Xavier del Bac: San Xavier Indian Reservation near Tucson, Arizona: 1783-1797 Church Rebuilt in 1783 near site of an earlier razed church built in 1692 [5] Likely the oldest Spanish colonial/European built structure in Arizona. Cordova House: Tucson, Arizona: ca. 1848 Residence Oldest house in Tucson; now part of Tucson Museum of ...
The history of Tucson, Arizona began thousands of years ago. Paleo-Indians practiced plant husbandry and hunted game in the Santa Cruz River Valley from 10,000 or earlier BCE . Archaic peoples began making irrigation canals, some of the first in North America, around 1,200 BCE . [ 1 ]
Trail of Time: This 2.8-mile walk along the South Rim is a geologic timeline of the canyon’s history. Miller said this is a good place to see a sample of a stromatolite, a layered limestone ...
Mission San Cosme y Damián de Tucsón as seen from Sentinel Peak ('A' Mountain) in 1880. The mission would be built, near the Sobaipuri village of Chuk Shon which Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino named San Cosmé del Tucson. Here Father Kino established a visita, or "visiting chapel", of Mission San Xavier del Bac in 1692. In 1768 the visita was ...
It was established one day before Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi, making it the oldest Jesuit mission site in southern Arizona. The first mission was named Mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori, established at an existing native O'odham or Sobaipuri settlement on the east side of the Santa Cruz River. After the Pima rebellion of 1751, the ...