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The Blixt-Avitia House – built in 1923 and located at 830 W. Alameda St. March 30, 1992, reference: #92000251. The Boudreaux-Robison House – built in 1908 and located at 101 N. Bella Vista Dr. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1992, reference: #92000253.
It was moved to Tucson in 1775 where Hugo O'Conor, an Irishman working for the Spanish crown, officially founded Presidio San Augustin del Tucson. [2] The Spanish stayed in the area, fighting down repeated attacks on the fort by Apache warriors. In 1821, Tucson became part of the new state of Sonora in Mexico, who had won independence from Spain.
1885 – The first public park in Tucson known as Carrillo's Gardens is built by Leopoldo Carrillo. [7] 1890 – Population: 5,150. [1] 1891 – University of Arizona opens per Morrill Act; [1] Old Main, University of Arizona built. 1893 – Arizona State Museum established.
Like most missions in New Spain, San Xavier was manned by Jesuits until their 1767 expulsion from Mexico; afterwards, they were replaced by Franciscans. 1754–1766: Alonso Ignacio Benito Espinosa [10] 1766–1767: José Neve [10] 1768–1778: Francisco Garcés [6] 1778–1790: Juan Bautista Velderrain [11] 1790–1797: Juan Bautista Llorenz
The Fremont House is an original adobe house in the Tucson Community Center that was saved when one of Tucson's earliest barrios was razed as part of urban renewal. Fort Lowell Museum; Mission San Xavier del Bac; Old Tucson Studios, built as a set for the movie Arizona, is a movie studio and theme park for classic Westerns.
Beginning just after the 1856 establishment of American Tucson, settlers in the southern New Mexico Territory began petitioning the government for separation. They hoped to establish a new territory in Traditional Arizona. The petitions, signed in Tucson and Mesilla, were rejected by the United States government but accepted by the Confederates.
The Teatro Carmen was Tucson's first Spanish-language theater. From 1915 until it closed in the 1920s, it was the foremost theater for Spanish-language productions and a community center for Tucson's Mexican community. [ 1 ]
Public School department in Tucson is organized. [32] Population of Tucson is 3,500 (estimate). [32] 1873 Hellings Mill in the Phoenix area expands to include a hog-slaughterhouse. [55] San Diego-Tucson telegraph begins operating (approximate date). [62] Fort Lowell built near Tucson. [23] 1874 Hayden's mill opens in the Phoenix/Tempe area.