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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.
Cave Creek Road begins at a five-way intersection with north–south Seventh Street and east–west Dunlap Road in the North Mountain urban village of the city of Phoenix. The highway heads northeast as a four-lane road with center turn lane between North Mountain to the west and Stoney Mountain to the east. Cave Creek Road curves north as it ...
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.
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.
Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino and Ak-Chin Circle Entertainment Center sit on the southwest corner of BIA Route 14 - also known as Farrell Rd - and John Wayne Parkway within the community. [5] Route 14 ends at SR 347 but continues west as Farrell Rd within the City of Maricopa. It is also at this point that road changes names back to John Wayne Parkway.
The trail incorporates existing portions of the Sun Circle Trail, the National Trail in South Mountain Park, portions of the trails within White Tank Mountain Regional Park and Cave Creek Regional Park, and pathways already developed along the McMicken corridor in Surprise. Construction on new segments of the trail began in 2006 and has brought ...
John Harris Behan (October 24, 1844 – June 7, 1912) was an American law enforcement officer and politician who served as Sheriff of Cochise County in the Arizona Territory, during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and was known for his opposition to the Earps. Behan was sheriff of Yavapai County from 1871 to 1873. He was married and had two ...
There are various signs along the trail which describe each ruin. The area, including the artifacts located on the site, are protected under the Antiquities Act of 1906 . The act is a bill (16 USC 431–433) passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906, which strictly forbids the ...