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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI1F_charles-debrille-poston_Tubac-AZ.html
Poston, know as the father of Arizona, came to Tubac in 1854 after the Gadsden Purchase and established the headquarters of a mining company, with mines near Arivaca and in the Santa Rita Mountains. Mining activities were discontinued during the C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI19_churches-in-tubac_Tubac-AZ.html
Several Tubac churches have stood on this site. The first, a shelter built by Jesuit missionaries in the early 1700's, was administered from Tumacacori. About 1760 Captain De Anza built a chapel for presidio soldiers. A later church was visited by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI18_tubac-schools_Tubac-AZ.html
In 1789, Toribio Otero received the first land grant in this area in exchange for teaching school at his ranch. A school district was established in 1876 and in 1885 T. Lillie Mercer built this school, one of the earliest in Arizona. It was in use…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0O_tubac_Tubac-AZ.html
Originally an Indian village, Tubac is the oldest European settlement in Arizona. It was established as the Royal Spanish Presidio San Ignacio De Tubac in 1752, after an uprising of Pima Indians. In 1775 Captain Juan Bautista De Anza led an expedi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0M_san-ignacia-del-babocomari_Elgin-AZ.html
For $380 on December 25, 1832, Ignacio Elias and his sister Eulalia purchased 123,068 acres of rangeland stretching almost to the San Pedro River on the east and to the Canelo Hills and Sonoita Creek on the west. Only 34,707 acres was allowed by t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0K_camp-crittenden_Sonoita-AZ.html
Established August 10, 1867. Named Camp Crittenden by Generals Orders No. 57 Department of California, September 30, 1867, in honor of Thomas S. Crittenden, Col.32nd U.S. Infantry Major General U.S. Volunteers. Camp abandoned June 1, 1873. Establi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0J_grand-ave-frank-reed-school_Nogales-AZ.html
Grand Ave. School was founded in 1928 as a grammar school, grades one through eight, for the African American children of Nogales.
In 1943 the school's name was changed to Frank A. Reed in honor of a former student, Frank A Reed, who died in a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHZW_padre-eusebio-francisco-kino-sj_Nogales-AZ.html
Founder of MissionsMan of GodPioneer ExplorerAstronomerRancher TeacherCartographer1645-1711
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHZT_montezuma-hotel_Nogales-AZ.html
The Montezuma Hotel, sixty feet east of here, built in 1886, rebuilt twice, and closed in 1965, was the center of Nogales business and social life for more than half a century. The Office of owner George Christ, First U.S. Customs Collector of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHZR_commemorating-jacob-isaacson_Nogales-AZ.html
First postmaster of Isaacson, Arizona (Changed to Nogales June 4, 1883)