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The Miracle Mile Historic District follows the alignment of the following extant arterials: Stone Avenue, Drachman Street, Oracle Road, and Miracle Mile. Also included in the district and associated with the highway site is a two block segment of Main Avenue lined with trucking transfer warehouses and roadside commercial buildings, as well as ...
On January 1, 2017, in the Arizona Daily Star newspaper, historian David Leighton challenged the accepted history of the town of Oracle: . He wrote that Albert Weldon who was born about 1840 in New Brunswick, Canada, traveled on his uncle Capt. A.D. Wood's ship Oracle around Cape Horn at the tip of South America and arrived in California between 1857 and 1860.
Mountain View Hotel – established in 1895 and located at 1175 N Appleton Dr. The hotel was incorporated into a Baptist church in the 1950s. In 2022, the property was purchased by Amy Bonillas and her father Garry Davis. [1] [6] Oracle Union Church – established in 1901 and located at 705 East American Way. [10]
State Route 77 (SR 77) is a 253.93-mile (408.66-kilometre) long state highway in Arizona that traverses much of the state's length, stretching from its southern terminus at a junction with I-10 in Tucson to its northern terminus with BIA Route 6 at the Navajo Nation boundary just north of I-40.
The Acadia Ranch House, the main house of the ranch, faces north on E. Mt. Lemmon Highway, a principal street through Oracle, which, in 1984, was Arizona State Route 77 (AZ 77). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The AZ 77 highway was rerouted in 1964, and now goes around Oracle on the north; E. American Avenue, very close to the house, is also known as Old Highway 77.
The park is named after the nearby town of Oracle. Oracle State Park serves as a wildlife refuge , and is open during the winter from 9 am – 5 pm, and during the summer from 8 am - 4 pm. [ 2 ] In October 2011 Arizona State Parks agreed to reopen Oracle on a limited basis with a $40,000 budget if the park's Friends group can raise $21,000 in ...
Biosphere 2, with upgraded solar panels in foreground, sits on a sprawling 40-acre (16-hectare) science campus that is open to the public. The Biosphere 2 project was launched in 1984 by businessman and billionaire philanthropist Ed Bass and systems ecologist John P. Allen, with Bass providing US$150 million in funding until 1991. [7]
Oracle Union Church, formerly All Saints' Church, is a historic church in Oracle, Arizona, United States. [ 2 ] The small village Gothic Revival church with Spanish influences was designed by Tucson-based architect Robert Rust and built in fall 1901.