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The Cave Creek Inn was built in 1920 and is Cave Creek's longest operating commercial building. It is now occupied by a restaurant. The Cave Creek Service Station was built in 1925. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [5] Frontier Town, which is also pictured, is located at 6245 E. Cave Creek Road.
The Cave Creek Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity at the base of the Black Mountains in the town of Cave Creek in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The museum preserves artifacts of the prehistory and objects related to the culture of the Cave Creek/Carefree foothills area. The museum consists of various exhibits, indoor and outdoor.
Cave Creek flows through the western side of the town southward into Phoenix, where it disappears into the Salt River valley. In 2000, the state of Arizona, Maricopa County , and the town of Cave Creek bought Spur Cross Ranch, a 2,154-acre (8.72 km 2 ) tract of Sonoran desert just north of Phoenix, for $21 million.
While Carefree and Cave Creek are today a home for upper-income retirees and an enclave for artists and entrepreneurs, the first inhabitants of the area surrounding Black Mountain were Native Americans known as the Hohokam, who appeared about 750 A.D. They were an agrarian society of hunters and gatherers who also used irrigation to maintain crops.
Darrell Lemaire (August 28, 1926 – January 2019) was an American mining engineer and psychedelic drug researcher. [1]Lemaire was born in Reno, Nevada on August 28, 1926. [2]
Lizard Acres was a former cattle ranch, subdivision, and train stop situated in Maricopa County, Arizona, near the present day town of Surprise. [2] It has an estimated elevation of 1,191 feet (363 m) above sea level. [1] Lizard Acres (noted as Lizard on topographic maps) was a train stop just north of Surprise, Arizona.
Lazy 5 Ranch, Mooresville; Liberty Acres Animal Haven & Equine Rescue, Liberty; Livermon Park & Mini Zoo, Windsor; Lynwood Park Zoo, Jacksonville; Museum of Life and Science, Durham; North Carolina Zoo, Asheboro; OBX Lizard Land, Currituck; Santa’s Land Fun Park & Zoo, Cherokee; Tiger World, Rockwell; Tregembo Animal Park, Wilmington
The Cave Creek Dam is a multiple-arch concrete dam located near Cave Creek, Arizona that was built in 1923 by John Samuel Eastwood and was the primary dam preventing flooding in North Phoenix from 1923 to 1979, when it was replaced by the earthen Cave Buttes Dam further down the Cave Creek Wash. [1]