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The Plaza was originally named the Plaza Mayor (Greatest/Main Plaza) after its construction.It was later known during the colonial period as the Plaza de Armas.Following independence, it was renamed the 16 July Plaza (Plaza 16 de Julio) on 3 February 1902, in honor of Pedro Murillo, captured and hung by Spanish troops in January 1810.
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National Register of Historic Places in La Paz County, Arizona (7 P) Pages in category "History of La Paz County, Arizona" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
La Paz grew in the spring of 1862 along the Colorado River to serve the miners washing placer gold in the La Paz Mining District. This district produced about 50,000 troy ounces of gold per year in 1863 and 1864. [5] La Paz had a population of 1,500 and was a stage stop between Fort Whipple, Arizona and San Bernardino, California. [6]
Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (2009), on Hispanics; Del Castillo, Richard Griswold. La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the Present (University of Notre Dame Press, 1991). Dobyns, Henry F. Spanish colonial Tucson: A demographic history (University of Arizona Press, 2019).
La Paz County (Spanish: Condado de La Paz) is the 15th county in the U.S. state of Arizona, located in the western part of the state. As of the 2020 census, its population was 16,557, [1] making it the second-least populous county in Arizona. The county seat is Parker. [2] The name of the county is the Spanish word for "the peace", and is taken ...
The city of La Paz was founded by Spanish settlers on the pre- existing site of Choqueyapu, an ancient Aymara village. It was founded as Nuestra Senora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) by Alonso de Mendoza, commissioned by Pedro de la Gasca, to commemorate the "pacification" of Peru. It was started as a commercial city, lying on the main gold and ...
La Paz was defended by Murillo, who maintained a military force of approximately 800 men Viceroy José Fernando de Abascal sent troops from Lima to repress the revolt and seized the opportunity to decree the reannexation of Upper Peru to his jurisdiction of Peru. Royalists there formed a clear majority, even among those born in the Americas.