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Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area.Named Scottsdale in 1894 after its founder Winfield Scott, a retired U.S. Army chaplain, the city was incorporated in 1951 with a population of 2,000.
The Charles Miller House in Old Town Scottsdale was built in 1913 and is located at 6938 E. 1st Street. Date placed on Scottsdale Historic Register: February 16, 2010 by Ordinance No.3886, 11-ZN-2009. The George Ellis House was built in 1925 and is located at 105 Cattle Track Road. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on ...
Tempe founded by Charles T. Hayden. [10] Population of Phoenix reaches 500. [10] 1872 Adobe schoolhouse constructed. [10] September 5: Public school in session. [8] Phoenix's first wedding, between George Buck and Matilda Murray. [10] Phoenix's first Chinese settlers arrive. [10] The first bookstore and newsstand opened by Edward Irvine. [10]
May 30: Prescott founded, and named the capital of the Arizona Territory. [48] November 7: Arizona Historical Society founded by an Act of the First Territorial Legislature. [49] Fort Whipple moved near Prescott (from Chino Valley, where it had been established the prior year). 1865 – Camp McDowell (later Fort McDowell) is set up on the Verde ...
Map of the United States with Arizona highlighted. Arizona is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Arizona is the 14th most populous state with 7,151,502 inhabitants (as of the 2020 census) [1] and the 6th largest by land area spanning 113,623.1 square miles (294,282 km 2). [2]
Winfield Scott and his wife Helen pose in 1900 with their mule "Old Maud" in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they established a homestead in 1888. As the first person to grow peanuts, citrus trees, and grapes in the Salt River Valley, Scott advocated the area's potential as a health resort as well as its agricultural potential. [2]
Arizona [b] is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.It also borders Nevada to the northwest and California to the west, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.
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