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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.
Foothills Academy was established in 1993 as a grades 6-12 college preparatory school, by Dr. Don Senneville, who . In 2009, the school was excited to announce the addition of Foothills Academy Elementary Preparatory in Cave Creek, to serve grades 1-5. in 2013, all-day kindergarten (tuition-free).
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.
Efforts to settle the territory were intensified in the 1870s with the discovery of gold in the area. This was when Gen. George Stoneman and his troops built Military Road, a main artery in modern-day Cave Creek, to protect the miners and anyone else crossing through the Desert Foothills. A remount station where riders could rest and pick up a ...
The Cave Creek Unified School District is the school district serving Cave Creek and Carefree, Arizona, ...
Carefree and Cave Creek are sometimes thought of as a single community. [8] The two towns share the local landmark Black Mountain , which rises more than 1,000 feet (300 m) above them, to an elevation of 3,398 feet (1,036 m).
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.
The Sears-Kay Ruin are the remains of what once was a fortification of the Hohokam culture. The ruins are located in the area of the Tonto National Forest just outside of the town of Carefree, Arizona.