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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/HMYQ3_mansions-of-main-avenue_Tucson-AZ.html
From the 1860s to the early 1900s, many of the wealthiest families in Tucson built homes along Main Avenue (El Camino Real), from Alameda Street north to 6th Street. "La Vecindad cerda del centro" or, "the neighborhood near downtown" soon earned t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXPR_locomotive-1673_Tucson-AZ.html
Locomotive # 1673, a Mogul 2 - 6 - 0 type engine, was built by Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1900 and logged over 1,000,000 miles for the Southern Pacific Company, primarily in southern Arizona. In 1955 it was donated to the City of Tucson to ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQSD_j-comes_Tucson-AZ.html
[ Four markers are mounted to a four sided kiosk. ] Side A:J?come's DepartmentStores, Inc.1896 - 1980This area was the final location of J?come's Department Store from 1951 to 1980. For twenty-nine years the people of Tucson and our neighbors …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ3Q_world-war-i-memorial_Tucson-AZ.html
1917 World War 1918Dedicated to ThoseWho Served Lest We Forget
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ3P_spanish-war-veterans-monument_Tucson-AZ.html
In Memory of Those Who ServedSpanish American War 1898-1902Cuba - Porto Rico - Philippines - China Lest You Forget
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