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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZZ_hired-mans-house-who-lived-here-historic-preservation-of-the-hired-mans-house_Vail-AZ.html
Hired Man's House - Who Lived Here?This two room house was in existence by 1920. Most likely, the Vails built it for use by families working on the Empire Ranch. Dusty Vail Ingram, who grew up on the Empire, recalled that the Estrada family lived …
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FQV_si-we-begi-ha-neid_Tucson-AZ.html
This monument represents the first sighting of Europeans by the O'odham who lived on the traditional sacred ground at the base of Chuk Shon (known today as Sentinel Peak). The O'odham and their ancestors, the First People of the Tucson Basin, have…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQ4_commemorating-the-raising-of-the-first-american-flag-within-the-walled-city-of-tucson_Tucson-AZ.html
Commemoratingthe raising of theFirst American Flagwithin the WalledCity of TucsonDec 16, 1846
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EL9_exchange-at-the-presidio_Tucson-AZ.html
Near this site on December 16 - 17, 1846, the U.S. 101st Infantry ("Mormon") Battalion under the command of Colonel Philip St. George Cooke peacefully occupied the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson.
Organized in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to reinforce…