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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ3L_camp-lowell-1866-1873_Tucson-AZ.html
Camp Lowell was established at this location in 1866 by the U.S. Army in recognition of the strategic military importance of Tucson. The local populace was fearful of Apaches, and the camp provided military protection as well as bringing financial…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML35_hugo-o-conor_Tucson-AZ.html
Commandant Inspectorof theInterior Provinces of New SpainHugo O'ConorFounder of thePresidio San Agustin de TucsonAugust 20, 1775Hugh O'Conor was born in Ireland in 1734 during a time in Irish history when England dominated the existence of the Iri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML2N_the-manning-house_Tucson-AZ.html
A Landmark of the National Register of Historic Places
Original Construction 1907-08ByLevi Howell Manning
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKVK_the-storks-nest_Tucson-AZ.html
The Sanborn Fire Maps for the City of Tucson first recorded this building in 1883 as an adobe dwelling with an attached ramada. Between 1901 and 1930 additions were made to the main building and construction was completed on the outbuilding behind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ9D_wyatt-earp-shot-frank-stilwell_Tucson-AZ.html
Wyatt Earp joined his four brothers in the silver-boom town of Tombstone in 1879 where brother Virgil was deputy U.S. marshal. Wyatt was a sometimes-lawman himself, and hoped to become sheriff of the newly formed Cochise County in 1881. He withdre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI4N_to-the-mormon-battalion_Tucson-AZ.html
Which, under command of Col. Cooke, in the course of their 2,000 mile infantry march to the Pacific coast, arrived and raised the first American flag in Tucson.December 16, 1846
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3X_hotel-congress_Tucson-AZ.html
The venerable Hotel Congress, designed by well-known architect, Roy Place, is the last surviving historic hotel in downtown Tucson. This three-story landmark was built in 1919 with exposed masonry construction and marble details. The hotel, south …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHL0_fox-tucson-theatre_Tucson-AZ.html
The Fox Tucson Theatre, the country's only southwestern art deco movie palace, was designed by California architect Eugene Durfee. Construction began in 1929 for the Tower Theatre, the crown jewel of the Diamos Brothers Southern Arizona Movie Thea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHKM_presidio-wall_Tucson-AZ.html
This marker locates the northwest corner of the adobe wall which surrounded the Royal Spanish Presidio San Agustin del Tucson, In 1776 the new outpost was garrisoned by seventy Spanish cavalry troopers and Indian scouts, transferred from Tubac und…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHKL_presidio-wall-camino-real_Tucson-AZ.html
Near this site was the southwest corner of the adobe wall that surrounded the Spanish Presidio, an enclosure of 11 ? acres which included most of the present city - county governmental complex and the Art Museum block. Tucson was the largest fort …