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Thatcher is a town in Graham County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2010 Census , the population of the town is 4,865. [ 4 ] It is part of the Safford Micropolitan Statistical Area .
It featured gray marble, oak cabinets and facilities that included storage vaults, safety deposit boxes and rooms for patrons to conduct business. The depression caused the Arizona Bank & Trust to close its offices in Safford, Pima and Thatcher late in 1923. The upper northwest corner still boasts its rod and light.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Arizona on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Safford was founded by Joshua Eaton Bailey, Hiram Kennedy, and Edward Tuttle, who came from Gila Bend, in southwestern Arizona.They left Gila Bend in the winter of 1873-74 because their work on canals and dams had been destroyed by high water the previous summer.
Eastern Arizona College was chartered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1888. Classes started in a church room in Central, Arizona in 1890 with 17 students and was called the St. Joseph Stake Academy. In 1891, classes were moved to Thatcher, Arizona, to be more centralized and due to room constraints. The school continued to ...
From 1883 to 1898, he served as president of the St. Joseph Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thatcher, Arizona. Christopher Layton reveals himself as a common man who achieved great success as a business man, a Church man and particularly as a family man, being a father of sixty-five children and a husband to ten wives.
The new temple serves the significant Latter-day Saint population in the eastern part of Arizona's Gila River Valley, who previously had to travel to the Mesa Arizona Temple, 150 miles to the west. The area has a historical significance to the LDS Church; Thatcher, which was founded by Mormon pioneers in 1881, was home to former LDS Church ...
John Monroe Moody (February 16, 1822 – 27 January 1884 [1]) was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature beginning in 1859 and later along with his immediate family one of the original settlers of Thatcher, Arizona. Moody represented Salt Lake City in the territorial legislature from 1859 to 1861.