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ROM AROUND200 BC until the middle of the 15th century, the Hohokam people farmed the Gila River Valley to the southeast of Phoenix.Among the few Hohokam sites that remain, the fortress-like structure that makes up the Casa Grande National Monument is one of the most distinctive. Built in the early decades of the 14th century, and named the “Big House”
by a passing Jesuit missionary in 1694, this sturdy four-story structure has walls up to 4-ft (1.2-m) thick. The interior is out of bounds, but visitors can stroll around the exterior. The visitor center has a small museum with some interesting exhibits on Hohokam history and culture. Casa Grande is located 15 miles (24 km) east of Interstate Highway 10 (I-10) on the outskirts of Coolidge. It should not be confused with the town of Casa Grande, found to the west of I-10.
prospectors struck silver here, in what was then part of an Apache reservation. The silver-bearing hills were annexed from the reservation, and Globe was founded as a mining town. It was named for a massive nugget of silver, shaped like a globe, which was unearthed in the hills nearby. The silver was quickly exhausted, but copper mining thrived until 1931, and contin-ues today. Globe has an attrac-tive historic district, and its history is outlined in the Gila County Historical Museum.
On the south side of town are the Besh-Ba-Gowah Ruins, home of the Salado people in the 13th and 14th centuries.
PGila County Historical Museum 1330 N Broad St.§ (928) 425-7385. # 10am–4pm Mon–Fri;
11am–3pm Sat; Sun by appointment.
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Weathered walls at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, dating to the early 14th century
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ESPITE BEING ARIZONA’Ssecond largest city, Tucson has a friendly, welcoming atmosphere and a variety of interesting attractions to entertainthe increasing number of visitors it receives each year. The city is located on the northern bound-ary of the Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona,
in a basin surrounded by five mountain ranges.
When the Spanish colonizers arrived in the early 18th century they were determined to seize land from the local Tohono O’odham and Pima Native tribes, who put up strong resistance. This led the Spanish to move their regional fortress, or
pre-sidio, from Tubac to Tucson in the 1770s. The city was officially founded by Irish explorer Hugh O’Connor in 1775. Tucson’s pride in its history is reflected in the careful preservation of 19th-century downtown buildings in the Barrio Historic District.
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E Tucson Museum of Art & Historic Block 140 N Main Ave.§ (520) 624-2333.
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∑ www. tucsonarts.com The Tucson Museum of Art opened in 1975 and is located on the Historic Block, which also contains five of the Exploring Tucson Tucson’s major art galleries and museums are clustered around two central areas: the University of Arizona (UA) campus, lying between Speedway Blvd, E Sixth Street, Park, and Campbell Avenues, and the downtown area, which includes the Barrio and El Presidio historic districts.
The latter contains many of the city’s oldest buildings, and is best explored on foot, as is the Barrio Historic District, south of Cushing Street.
presidio’s oldest dwellings – most of which are at least a 100 years old. These historic buildings form part of the art museum and house different parts of its extensive collection.
The museum’s sculpture gardens and courtyards also form part of the Historic Block complex.
The art museum itself displays contemporary and 20th-century European and American works.
In the adobe Stevens House (1866), the museum has its collection of pre-Columbian tribal artifacts, some of which are 2,000
years old. There is the Spanish Colonial collection with some stunning pieces of religious art. The 1850s Casa Cordova houses El Nacimiento, a
EPima County Courthouse 115 N Church Ave.
The courthouse’s pretty tiled dome is a downtown land-mark. It was built in 1927, replacing its predecessor, a one-story adobe building dating from 1869. The posi-tion of the original presidio wall is marked out in the courtyard, and a section of the wall, 3-ft (1-m) thick and 12-ft (4-m) high, can still be seen inside the building.
PEl Presidio Historic District The El Presidio Historic District occupies the area where the original Spanish presidio, San Agustin del Tucson, was built in 1775.
More than 70 of the houses here were constructed during the Territorial period, before Arizona became a state in 1912.
Today, these historic buildings are largely occupied by shops, restaurants, and offices.
However, archeological exca-vations in the area have found artifacts from much earlier res-idents, the Hohokam Indians.
R St. Augustine Cathedral 192 S Stone Ave.§ (520) 623-6351.
# Services only; call for times.
St. Augustine Cathedral was begun in 1896 and modeled after the Spanish Colonial style of the Cathedral of Querétaro in central Mexico.
This gleaming white building features an imposing sandstone façade with intricate carvings of the yucca, the saguaro, and the horned toad – three symbols of the Sonoran Desert – while a bronze statue of St. Augustine, the city’s patron saint, stands above the main door.
Nativity scene with more than 300 earthenware figurines, on display from December to March. The J. Knox Corbett House, built in 1907, has Arts and Crafts Movement pieces such as a Morris chair.
Both guided and self-guided walking tours of this district are available from the Tucson Museum of Art.
Contemporary glass skyscrapers in downtown Tuscon Exhibit at
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Stained-glass window in the cathedral
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PBarrio Historic District This area was Tucson’s business district in the late 19th century. Today, its streets are quiet and lined with original adobe houses painted in bright colors. On nearby Main Street is the “wishing shrine”
of El Tiradito, which marks the spot where a young man was killed as a result of a lovers’ triangle. Local people lit candles here for his soul, and still believe that if their candles burn for a whole night, their wishes will come true.
EUniversity of Arizona n Visitors’ Center, 845 E University Blvd, Suite 145.§ (520) 884-7516.
Several museums are located on or near the UA campus, about a mile (1.6 km) east of downtown. The Arizona Historical Society Museum traces Arizona’s history from the arrival of the Spanish in 1539 to modern times. The University of Arizona Museum of Art focuses on European and American fine art from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Opposite the
museum is the Center for Creative Photography, which contains the work of many of the 20th century’s greatest American photographers.
Visitors can view the archives by advance reservation. The Flandrau Science Center features a range of child-friendly interactive exhibits.
One of the most renowned collections of artifacts, cover-ing 2,000 years of Native history, is displayed by the Arizona State Museum, which was founded in 1893.
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