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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEI_cottonwood-lane_Tucson-AZ.html
Planted shortly after Fort Lowell was established in 1873. The trees were irrigated by acequias or open ditches with water diverted from Pantano Wash. The beautiful shade trees made Fort Lowell an oasis in an otherwise barren area. After the fort …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEG_chapel-of-san-pedro-at-fort-lowell_Tucson-AZ.html
A tiny chapel, built here in 1915, served the Barriada del Rillito, a community now called El Fuerte. The fifteen immigrant Mexican families of this village gathered outside under mesquite trees to hear Mass. In 1917, Senora Josefa de Mule donated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEF_university-streetcar-line_Tucson-AZ.html
Across from the Main Gate on May 12, 1898, Charles F. Hoff, Manager of the Tucson Street Railway Company, drove the final spike completing tracks to the downtown business district and residential areas farther south. Mule-drawn streetcars traveled…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEC_fort-lowell_Tucson-AZ.html
The military post, established in 1862near downtown Tucson, was moved tothis location in 1873. One of manyactive forts on the Arizona frontier,Lowell served also as a major supplydepot, influencing the economy andsocial life of the community. At i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDT_plaza-militar_Tucson-AZ.html
Once an open space, this area was within the original Spanish presidio. The plaza was probably named in the Mexican years (1821-1854), when soldiers drilled here. Saddle horses for the troops were stabled along the north side, next to the presidio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDI_hiram-s-stevens-house_Tucson-AZ.html
Hiram Sanford Stevens came west as a soldier, settling in Tucson in 1856. Three years later, he married Petra Santa Cruz, great granddaughter of a Spanish Pioneer. In 1865 the couple built this residence, which featured an aviary, orchard,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5B1_first-municipal-airport-in-the-united-states_Tucson-AZ.html
[Marker Front:]This ground was the locationof theFirst Municipal Airportin theUnited StatesThe Tucson City Council approved thefinancing for the airport, July 21, 1919 andthe City of Tucson in cooperationwith the Tucson Chamber of Commerceestablis…