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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L1N_the-grotto-at-san-xavier-del-bac_Tucson-AZ.html
Erectedby the Bishopof TvcsonA.D. 1908The fiftiethanniversaryof the wondrovsapparitionsof the BlessedVirgin Motherof Godat the Grottoof Lovrdes
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L12_roy-place-montgomery-ward-building_Tucson-AZ.html
Façade restoration
44 North Stone Avenue
Original Architect - Roy Place (1887-1950)
Rededicated September 2010
Pima County 2004 Bond Funds
Façade restored to original 1929
design and appearance
Pima County Board of Supervisors
Ann Day, D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L08_santa-cruz-church_Tucson-AZ.html
Santa Cruz Church
built by
Manuel G. Flores
Construction began November 13, 1916
under
His excellency Henry Granjon
Bishop of Tucson
Established as parish February 12, 1919
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L00_officer-erik-hite_Tucson-AZ.html
Was Killed In The
Line Of Duty Near
This Location On
June 2, 2008
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZR_who-lived-here_Tucson-AZ.html
Like many Tucsonans in the 1920s, Bernice Walkley and Rutger Porter were transplanted easterners - she from Connecticut and he from New York. Rutger met Bernice while doing landscape work for her father in Tucson.
In 1929 Rutger bought the small …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZK_does-this-garden-seem-lush-and-cool_Tucson-AZ.html
The Historical Gardens show a gardening style that was popular in Tucson from the 1880s through the 1940s. The landscape choices of those days aimed for a green retreat from the desert and helped keep homes cooler in the decades before air-conditi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZJ_cattle-tank_Tucson-AZ.html
You can still see part of the cattle tank that was installed in 1938. It sat on a concrete base and was used every summer as a swimming pool before the water was released to irrigate the surrounding gardens.
The Porters had their own well, as di…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KGM_seed-to-sentinel_Tucson-AZ.html
Standing like desert sentinels, mature saguaros start life as tiny black seeds. These seeds usually germinate under nurse plants but only a few survive to become mature saguaros. Look for young saguaros growing low to the ground. Those that are ab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KGL_desert-life_Tucson-AZ.html
The Sonoran Desert can be described as a "desert jungle" because more than 200 species of animals and 600 species of plants live here. Saguaros—-with their branching arms and accordion-like pleats—dominate this scene. Intermi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KGK_world-of-the-wash_Tucson-AZ.html
Below is the dry bed of an intermittent stream called a desert wash. For a short time, during desert thunderstorms, flash floods rush down the mountain slopes and through desert washes to nearby rivers. However, beneath the wash's sandy surface, s…