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John W. Swilling (April 1, 1830 – August 12, 1878) was an early pioneer in the Arizona Territory. He is commonly credited as one of the original founders of the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Swilling also played an important role in the opening of the central Arizona highlands to white settlement.
The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Due to their proximity to Phoenix and its environs, the mountains offer a number of outdoor ...
Bird on fire: Lessons from the world's least sustainable city (Oxford UP, 2011). Schweikart, Larry. "Collusion or Competition?: Another Look at Banking During Arizona's Boom Years, 1950–1965." Journal of Arizona History (1987): 189–200. Zarbin, Earl A. All the Time a Newspaper: The First 100 Years of the Arizona Republic (1990)
Today, countless ancient ruins can be found in Arizona. Arizona was part of the state of Sonora, Mexico from 1822, but the settled population was small. In 1848, under the terms of the Mexican Cession the United States took possession of Arizona above the Gila River after the Mexican War , and became part of the Territory of New Mexico .
A stone slab covered with 123 hieroglyphic cartouches discovered at an ancient Maya pyramid in Mexico might not be a treasure map to a lost city, but it comes incredibly close.. The discovery ...
In 1891, the monument underwent repairs supervised by Cosmos Mindeleff of the Bureau of American Ethnology, until funds ran out.Proclaimed Casa Grande Reservation on June 22, 1892 by Executive Order 28-A of President Benjamin Harrison, 480 acres around the ruins became the first prehistoric and cultural reserve in the United States. [9]
The site was acquired from them in 1988 by the city of Mesa. [5] Since the 2013 completion of the Visitor Center, [6] the site is seasonally open to the public from October through May. [7] Sce:dagĭ Mu:val Va’aki is operated by the Arizona Museum of Natural History, which is undertaking archaeological studies there. The mound remains ...
The Arizona Territory passes a law allowing cities, including Phoenix, to annex land surrounding the city, as long as it obtained the permission of the inhabitants of that area. 1894 Orangedale (later called Scottsdale) is founded by Winfield Scott. [10] The city passes an ordinance limiting prostitution to a single block area. [10]