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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 River. [50] 1866 – L. Zechendorf & Co. merchandisers opens in Tucson. [47] 1867
2.1 1900s–1960s. 2.2 1970s–1990s. 3 ... The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mesa, Arizona, ... Timeline of Arizona; Timelines of other ...
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Arizona and New Mexico. History Co.; online free; De Long; Sidney Randolph (1905). The history of Arizona: from the earliest times known to the people of Europe to 1903. Whitaker & Ray. Farish, Thomas Edwin (1918). History of Arizona. Filmer Brothers. vol 5 (early 20th century) online free
Earlier in 1888 the city offices were moved into the new City Hall, at Washington and Central (later the site of the city bus terminal, until Central Station was built in the 1990s). [15] When the territorial capital was moved from Prescott to Phoenix in 1889 the temporary territorial offices were also located in City Hall.
The city nearly became a ghost town, saved only because it was the Cochise County seat until 1929. The city's population dwindled to a low of 646 in 1910, but grew to 1,380 by 2010. [4] Tombstone has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. [5] Tombstone in 1881 by C. S. Fly Ed Schieffelin in Tombstone in 1880
Salt River floods for the first of many times during Phoenix's settlement. [10] 1870 October 20: Town site selected in what is currently downtown Phoenix. [8] [11] Town laid out, [12] [13] original town site consists of 320 acres, or 0.5 square miles. [8] [14] Population of the Salt River Valley reaches 240, the Arizona Territory has 9,658 ...
In 1885, the University of Arizona was founded in Tucson – it was situated in the countryside, outside the city limits of the time. During the territorial and early statehood periods, Tucson was Arizona's largest city and commercial and railroad center, [6] while Phoenix was the seat of state government (beginning in 1889) and agriculture ...
The Sinagua people [a] were a pre-Columbian culture that occupied a large area in Arizona from the Little Colorado River, near Flagstaff, to the Verde River near Sedona, including the Verde Valley, area around the San Francisco Peaks, and significant portions of the Mogollon Rim country, [2] [3] between approximately 500 CE and 1425 CE. [4]