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  2. Tucson artifacts - Wikipedia

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    The Tucson artifacts, sometimes called the Tucson Lead Crosses, Tucson Crosses, Silverbell Road artifacts, or Silverbell artifacts, were thirty-one lead objects that Charles E. Manier and his family found in 1924 near Picture Rocks, Arizona, that were initially thought by some to be created by early Mediterranean civilizations that had crossed the Atlantic in the first century, but were later ...

  3. History of Tucson, Arizona - Wikipedia

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    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] The Hohokam people lived in the Tucson area from around 450 ...

  4. Kitt Peak National Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Kitt Peak National Observatory. /  31.9583°N 111.5967°W  / 31.9583; -111.5967. The Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona - Sonoran Desert on the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, 88 kilometers (55 mi) west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona.

  5. Old Tucson Studios - Wikipedia

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    Old Tucson (aka Old Tucson Studios) is an American movie studio and theme park just west of Tucson, Arizona, adjacent to the Tucson Mountains and close to the western portion of Saguaro National Park. Built in 1939 for the movie Arizona (1940), it has been used for the filming location of many movies and television westerns since then, such as ...

  6. Sentinel Peak (Arizona) - Wikipedia

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    USGS Tucson. Sentinel Peak is a 2,897 ft (900 m) peak in the Tucson Mountains southwest of downtown Tucson, Arizona, United States. The valley's first inhabitants grew crops at the mountain's base, along the Santa Cruz River. The name "Tucson" is derived from the O'odham Cuk Ṣon ( [tʃʊk ʂɔːn] ), meaning " [at the] base of the black [hill]".

  7. Tucson, Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Tucson ( / ˈtuːsɒn / TOO-son; O'odham: Cuk Ṣon; Spanish: Tucsón) [ 1] is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, [ 7] and is home to the University of Arizona. It is the second-largest city in Arizona behind Phoenix, with a population of 542,629 in the 2020 United States census, [ 8] while the population of ...

  8. Mission San Xavier del Bac - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Xavier del Bac ( Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino [ 1] in the center of a centuries-old settlement of the ...

  9. Mount Lemmon - Wikipedia

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    Easiest route. Catalina Highway. Mount Lemmon, with a summit elevation of 9,159 feet (2,792 m), [ 1] is the highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. It is located in the Coronado National Forest north of Tucson, Arizona, United States. Mount Lemmon was named for botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon, who trekked to the top of the mountain with her ...

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