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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CW_sosa-carillo-fr-mont-house_Tucson-AZ.html
The earliest documents for this property indicate that the pioneering Sosa family lived here in the 1850s. In 1878, Manuela Sosa and her husband, Michael McKenna, sold the property to Jesus Suarez de Carrillo, wife of businessman Leopoldo Carrillo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CV_plaza-de-la-mesilla_Tucson-AZ.html
One of the few remaining sites which recall the Mexican heritage of Tucson, it acquired its name after the Gadsden Purchase (1854) as the terminus of the wagon road joining Tucson to the territorial capital, then at Mesilla. When San Agustin, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CU_garcs-footbridge_Tucson-AZ.html
Memorial to Francisco Garc, explorer and first Franciscan missionary to the Pima village at the foot of Sentinel Peak. In 1770 Garc and the Pimas constructed at that site the first substantial building in Tucson, a mission residence with two round…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CS_pima-county-courthouse_Tucson-AZ.html
The first Pima County Courthouse, a single-story adobe structure built in 1868, was replaced in 1881 by a large two-story stone and red brick victorian building which, in turn, was removed in 1928 to make way for the present structure. This distin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CR_presidio-san-agust-n-del-tucson_Tucson-AZ.html
For about 80 years, the adobe walls of the Tucson Presidio protected the residents of the area from attacks by Apache groups, who opposed Spanish and Mexican peoples and their native allies beginning in the 1600s. The Spanish military designated t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYU0_la-catedral-de-san-agustin_Tucson-AZ.html
On this site stood the Catedral de San Agustin, the first church near the Tucson Presidio, Arizona Territory. The adobe and stone structure was built under the direction of Bishop Salpointe in 1883.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYR1_siqueiros-j-come-house_Tucson-AZ.html
The Siqueiros-J?come family built this adobe brick structure between the mid-1860's and the late 1870's. It is an example of a Sonoran row house. Built close to the street with an interior courtyard, the house has flat saguaro rib and packing crat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYQY_southwest-corner-of-the-presidio_Tucson-AZ.html
Excavations beneath this lawn in 1998 located the west adobe wall of the Tucson Presidio and a portion of the presidio blacksmith shop. The tower at the southwest corner remains buried beneath the nearby city hall parking lot. Soldiers stood guard…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYQW_main-gate_Tucson-AZ.html
The main gate of the presidio was located near what is now Alameda Street, just north of this spot. The gate was built from mesquite timbers and had a platform above, where a guard stood watch. In the late 1860's, the families of Milton Duffield, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYQD_the-tucson-tragedy_Tucson-AZ.html
Honoring the victims of the event ofJanuary 8, 2011The Tucson Tragedy - - -we shall never forget