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Originally located between Granada Avenue and Church Street during Arizona's territorial period, "Post Office Street," was where postmaster and mayor, Mark Aldrich (b.1801 - d.1873) lived and worked. The southwestern half of the street was alterna…
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Originally named "Street of Joy" during Tucson's Spanish period. In 1869, its name changed to Congress Street, derived from Charles O. Brown's Congress Hall Saloon. In 1867, Arizona's territorial capital was moved to Tucson, and Brown's saloon ser…
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Named during Arizona's Territorial period after businessman and Tucson pioneer, William F. Scott (b.1831-d. ca.1914). In the 1870s, he operated a flour mill adjacent to his home at the corner of Main and McCormick (since demolished).
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Named in the late 1600s after the route connecting Tucson's Presidio with mission SanCosme de Tucson. The street was also called Calle del Arroyo, referencing the arroyoimmediately south of the presidio walls. The street was renamed in 1871 to hon…
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Named in 1869 for the convent located adjacent to San August?n Cathedral. When the seven Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet finally arrived in 1870, they opened the city's first parochial school for girls next to San August?n. Three years later t…
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Named Calle de la Milpes ("Road Which Leads to the Corn Fields") during Tucson's Spanish period; the street linked the presidio with adjacent agricultural fields. Renamed Cemetery Street in the mid-1800s, the street was the main thoroughfare betwe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BN2_congress-street_Tucson-AZ.html
Originally named "Street of Joy" during Tucson's Spanish period. In 1869, its name changed to Congress Street, derived from Charles O. Brown's Congress Hall Saloon. In 1867, Arizona's territorial capital was moved to Tucson and Brown's saloon serv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BN1_toole-avenue_Tucson-AZ.html
Named during Arizona's Territorial period after Tucson's mayor, Dr. James Toole (b.1824-d.1884). Before serving in politics, he acted as Adjutant General for the Arizona Territory. He was also a surgeon and later a banker. Upon collapse of his ban…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKC_broadway-boulevard_Tucson-AZ.html
In 1862, Union soldiers took possession of a former Confederate camp located in what is now Armory Park neighborhood. The camp, originally named Military Plaza, was reactivated in 1866 as Camp Lowell. During its occupation, soldiers traveled betwe…
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Its name derives from the Spanish word meaning "pomegranate." The area between what is now Interstate-10 and Main Avenue once supported irrigated agricultural fields during Arizona's Territorial period.