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Florence (O'odham: S-auppag) is a town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. [3] Florence, which is the county seat of Pinal County, is one of the oldest towns in that county and includes a National Historic District with over 25 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The population of Florence was 26,785 at the 2020 ...
On March 21, 1968, the Arizona legislature passed the final version of SB 1, placing Arizona under standard time. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The bill had been working its way through the legislature since January of that year, and was sponsored by state Senators Tenney, Goetze, Porter, Halacy, Garfield, Campbell, Lewis, Gregovich, Giss, Crowley, and Holsclaw.
The county seat is Florence. The county was established in 1875. Pinal County contains parts of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, the Gila River Indian Community and the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, as well as all of the Ak-Chin Indian Community. Pinal County is included in the Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler, Arizona Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The current building where the museum is located was built in 1970 and houses exhibits of early Native-American artifacts, day-to-day early pioneer life in Florence and prison Artifacts. [ 14 ] Pinal County Historic Society & Museum [ 16 ]
The City of Coolidge operates the Cotton Express, which provides local bus service. [14] The City of Coolidge also operates Central Arizona Regional Transit (CART), which provides transportation between Florence, Coolidge, Central Arizona College and Casa Grande. [15] The town was home to a station for Amtrak; it closed in June 1996.
McFarland State Historic Park is a small historic park located in downtown Florence, Arizona on the corner of Main and Ruggles streets. The park consists of a preserved courthouse and other buildings dating to the Arizona Territory period. The original structure was built in 1878 with the addition of a jail in 1882 and the courthouse in 1891.
The Second Pinal County Courthouse, built in 1891, is an historic three-story redbrick courthouse located at Pinal and 12th streets in Florence, Pinal County, Arizona, United States. Designed by prominent Arizona architect James M. Creighton in the Late Victorian Revival style of architecture, it is Pinal County's second courthouse.
Poston Butte, formerly called Primrose Hill, is a hill located along Hunt Highway in Florence, Pinal County, Arizona, United States, [3] near the eastern end of the Santan Mountains. [4] Geologically, it is characterized by basalts overlying altered granite. [5] This hill is noted for having the pyramidal tomb of Charles Debrille Poston at its ...