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The Deep Well Ranch is a reputation steer ranch operation on the desert between Florence and Tucson along the eastern foothills of the Picacho Mountains [17] Owen Homesite – located at 1415 E. Prince Rd. and listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 2013, reference: #12001142.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center Museum. This list of museums in Arizona encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Arizona on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [ 2 ] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [ 3 ]
Mesa Southwest Museum (later renamed the Arizona Museum of Natural History) founded. The original Hohokam Park opens in Mesa. Bank of America Plaza (Tucson) built. Arizona Museum of Natural History is founded in Mesa, originally exhibiting in the City Hall. [212] 1978 March 9: Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza established in Phoenix. [213]
All buildings located in Tucson unless otherwise noted. Arizona History Museum (1954) (Arizona Historical Society headquarters, Joesler's last project) – 949 E. Second St. at Park Ave. Broadway Village Shopping Center (1939) – Southwest corner of Broadway Blvd. and Country Club Road. Don Martin Apartments – 605 East 9th Street.
The Arizona State Museum’s library and archives is a research collection open to the public specializing in southwestern United States and northern Mexico archaeology, ethnology, ethnohistory, and material culture, as well as American Indian and museum studies.
The history of Tucson, Arizona began thousands of years ago. Paleo-Indians practiced plant husbandry and hunted game in the Santa Cruz River Valley from 10,000 or earlier BCE . Archaic peoples began making irrigation canals, some of the first in North America, around 1,200 BCE . [ 1 ]
The Mesa Southwest Museum was founded as a small museum in Mesa City Hall in 1977 with a small collection of Arizona artifacts, in a building designed by Lescher & Mahoney built in 1937 with WPA funds, that housed the city hall, municipal courts, city library, police and fire departments. The building was expanded in 1983 and 1987, and in 2000 ...