He oversaw the closing of the unstable State Bank. In 1845 the legislature amended the constitution to allow the removal of the capital from Tuscaloosa. The growing wealth and population of the Black Belt brought the seat of government to Montgomery. — — Map (db m29033) HM
In 1848, Washington County designated the town of "new" St. Stephens
as the county seat of government. On November 23, 1853, the Alabama
Legislative Act 243 authorized the location and construction of the
courthouse at "Old Hazards Field," a . . . — — Map (db m305967) HM
In the early 1930's, Anchorage was accessible by rail or air, but any travel outside the city was expensive and slow. The only roads out of the city were the rough road to Spenard Lake and a 22 mile loop north of town. After the first light . . . — — Map (db m260221) HM
Our produce growing season in Fairbanks is fairly short about four blissful months, extending from May - September. However, while the season is short, the intensity of the
24-hour sunshine enables produce to grow at incredibly fast rates. . . . — — Map (db m257480) HM
For many years, farmers displayed locally grown grains and vegetables in the downtown area near the site of today's Visitors' Bureau log cabin on First Avenue. The display pictured here dates from around 1914. — — Map (db m257140) HM
Most record-setting vegetables are judged by
their weight. But what does a world-record
cabbage or carrot look like?
This sculpture features life-sized replicas of
the cabbage, beet, zucchini and carrot grown
in the Matanuska Valley in . . . — — Map (db m254729) HM
The riches of the Matanuska River valley have sustained settlement in this area for thousands of years.
GOLD MINING
Prospectors went into the mountains to look for gold and minerals, and early trading posts were set up on the . . . — — Map (db m254667) HM
This house was constructed in 1935 as the farm home
of a Matanuska Valley Colonist family. It was relocated
in July 1995 from Farm Tract No. 94 to this permanent
site within Palmer's Historic District. Working together to
preserve our local . . . — — Map (db m254888) HM
This park is dedicated to the agricultural pioneers of the
Matanuska Valley and particularly to those that participated
in the Matanuska Valley Colonization Project of 1935,
who by their labor and perseverance gave birth to
the City of . . . — — Map (db m254849) HM
Agriculture was an essential enterprise for the successful settlement of Alaska.
The Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 brought thousands of fortune seekers north. Many of them settled on homesteads when their mining days were over. . . . — — Map (db m254664) HM
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The Matanuska Colony Project created headline news
around the world. It was a story of hope in the 1930s
Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
promised to build new communities and put people to
work . . . — — Map (db m254747) HM
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
Hired as transient workers, unemployed men from
California assisted in building a tent city before
constructing the colonists' farm houses. To discourage them
from staying, they received half their pay in Alaska and . . . — — Map (db m254764) HM
ST. MIHIEL U.S. ARMY TRANSPORT SHIP
Built on Hog Island, Pennsylvania for World War I she was to be called the Sinnemahoning.
named for a Native American tribe. Following declaration of Armistice Day, November
11, 1918, the ship was named . . . — — Map (db m254766) HM
DAVID R. WILLIAMS
ARCHITECT
David Reichart Williams, appointed
as chief architect for the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration,
planned 84 of the 100 resettlement
communities.
After researching Alaska's climate and
agricultural . . . — — Map (db m254829) HM
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
The Matanuska Colony Project provided
not only farms, schools and administration buildings, but also
power and processing plants. The cannery, creamery, and
vegetable sorting center helped to distribute farm . . . — — Map (db m254844) HM
Honoring the 202 families from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota who braved the migratory transition from the Depression-torn years of strife and struggle to the promised land of fertile Matanuska Valley, and in their endeavor, with faith, hope, . . . — — Map (db m254739) HM
In this garden you'll find the OS Cross cabbage, an F1
hybrid variety that is referred to as the "giant cabbage".
The variety was bred to grow much larger and heavier
than standard cabbages as illustrated by the sculpture.
Farmers . . . — — Map (db m254730) HM
The resources of the Matanuska Valley, including its people, create a cornucopia of natural wealth.
The Wild Advantage
Throughout history, Athabascans thrived off the bountiful resources of this valleyfishing, hunting, and gathering, . . . — — Map (db m255209) HM
During the long cold winters,
this barn provided protection
for Rika's Holstein cows,
oxen, sheep, goats, and
chickens. Rika borrowed the
unusual design from her
homeland of Sweden. — — Map (db m255736) HM
Rika's homestead, which included this barn and outbuilding, was fundamental to the operation of the roadhouse.
In the Barn
The barn was home to cattle, sheep, goats and horses. Rika raised cattle for milk and meat. Calving was carefully . . . — — Map (db m255725) HM
This sod-roofed cabin is a
reconstruction of the outbuilding
that once stood here. It serves
today as a museum displaying
selections from the Delta
Historical Society's collection. — — Map (db m255741) HM
Agricultural Development in Delta began with homesteading in the Delta-Clearwater area in
the early 1950's. Farm sizes varied from 160-320 acres.
In April of 1978 the State of Alaska sold approximately 15,000 acres of agricultural land in the . . . — — Map (db m255720) HM
Gardening was an important summer activity at the Sullivan Roadhouse. The main crop was potatoes.
This was typical for many roadhouses along the trail. A large potato patch was located behind the house and provided enough potatoes to last . . . — — Map (db m255638) HM
Once owned & often visited by film legend John Wayne, the ranch with the prominent white show barn came to fame in the 1940s as the Milky Way Hereford Ranch, owned by the Mars Candy Family. — — Map (db m36611) HM
An early 1900s adobe home built by the son of Eagar's first Mormon Bishop. Crosby, a major sheep & cattle rancher, was a railroad contractor who in 1917 laid the track for the Santa Fe Railroad north of here. — — Map (db m36626) HM
Completed in 1912 by J.P. LeSueur manager of the Eagar ACMI, this frame house with a skin of pressed metal wall sheathing is best known as home to one of the Colter Bros. important Round Valley Ranchers. — — Map (db m36643) HM
Built in the early 1900s by one of Eagar's prominent civic, religious & business leaders, this barn was constructed with wooden pegs & retains remarkable architectural integrity. The 2-story brick farmhouse no longer stands. — — Map (db m36640) HM
Native Americans' familiarity with local plants, minerals, rocks, and animals has helped sustain their cultures and make their homes in this beautiful-and challenging-landscape for more than 13,000 years.
Stones & Petrified Wood
The . . . — — Map (db m255956) HM
Just west on the river, W.R Milligan built the first grist mill & sawmill in Round Valley, later a brick kiln was added. Subsequent owners included the Udall Bros. & J.P. Rothlisberger who built the barn just ahead. — — Map (db m158475) HM
From 1857-60, Lt. Edward F. Beale and a crew of 100 men completed the first federal highway in the southwest from Fort Smith, Ark. to Los Angeles, Calif. at a cost of $200,000. The wagon road was used extensively by immigrants en route to . . . — — Map (db m33346) HM
Nalakihu - A modern Hopi name, "House Outside the Village"
Farmers lived here about 800 years ago. (Roof beams gave tree ring dates in the late 1100s.) The way the walls join show this small pueblo was not built all at once, but was added onto. . . . — — Map (db m41713) HM
This 1945 Model H International Farmall, purchased by the Zanzucchi Family after World War II, was used to plow the "Fields" at the Flagstaff Dairy. The Flagstaff Dairy operated from 1904 thru 1979 and was located 3 miles west of Flagstaff on Old . . . — — Map (db m178779) HM
Farming then did not mean vast fields like we use today. Anasazi and Sinagua people modified these small terraces to grow hand-tended corn, cotton, beans, and squash. We know the climate was about what it is now, very dry for farming. The terraces . . . — — Map (db m41715) HM
Behind you is the Bright Angel mule corral, where each morning mules greet riders and another adventure begins. Mules have carried people into Grand Canyon since sightseeers first visited here in the 1890s. For many people - including those who . . . — — Map (db m205170) HM
This location has two markers
This steel lookout tower is 80 feet tall and has a 7 foot by 7 foot steel cab on top. It was erected in 1934.
As guardians of our nation's vast timber reserves, the U.S. Forest Service has always given fire . . . — — Map (db m94919) HM
Isolated from society, settlers here had to provide for themselves. Growing their own food proved to be a constant struggle as unreliable irrigation plagued the
desert fields. Lonely Dell families endured and grew lush gardens, orchards, and fields . . . — — Map (db m289827) HM
Pa had a big stockyard joining the barn where they shucked corn. He grew lots of corn and squash to feed the horses, cattle, and pigs in the winter. We raised turkeys and geese and would pick the geese for down, for pillows, twice during the summer. . . . — — Map (db m255617) HM
Between 1876 and 1886, Hyrum Judd, under the direction of Lot Smith, supervised a Mormon Dairy one
mile northeast near Dairy Spring.
Beginning with a herd of 115 cows, large quantities of butter and cheese were produced. During the 1880s the . . . — — Map (db m35187) HM
From the North Rim, the Colorado river and the Unkar Delta below seem distant, yet ancestral Puebloan farmers 1,00 to 800 years ago made the journey from river to rim on a routine basis, spending summers on the rim and most of the remainder of the . . . — — Map (db m258222) HM
Built more than 900 years before the Grand Canyon Lodge, the foundations of this small, two-room dwelling provide a glimpse of the kinds of lodging used by ancestral Puebloan farmers of the North Rim. These native farmers built field houses like . . . — — Map (db m163577) HM
Every Lonely Dell family struggled to water their fields through various dams, tunnels, and hand-dug ditches. The Paria River's muddy flows and unpredictable floods caused problems, but ferryman Warren Johnson worked tirelessly to grow crops and . . . — — Map (db m289944) HM
In 1946, Walter Jordan's orchard business had expanded. This building was constructed to house an apple grading machine and other fruit packing operations. Walter Jordan operated the orchards until 1973. — — Map (db m94848) HM
In 1876 or 1877, Jim Thompson built a log cabin here and began cultivating the old Indian Gardens where the Indians had grown corn and squash long before Oak Creek was known to white men. Thompson remained here at his Indian Gardens Ranch until his . . . — — Map (db m33203) HM
Fruit growing played a significant role in the early Sedona economy. Over time, settlers constructed ditches, flumes, pipelines, reservoirs, and water wheels to provide irrigation to their gardens and eventually to their larger orchards.
Apples . . . — — Map (db m54228) HM
Lee Van Deren, cattleman, arrived to put his children in the new Sedona school opened in 1910. Ranching was a major part of Sedonas early economy. Round ups and cattle drives were a twice a year occurrence for ranchers when moving their herds from . . . — — Map (db m54229) HM
Despite all it had to offer, in time Walnut Canyon became a difficult place for farmers to live. Drier, colder conditions meant crop failures. More people and diminished resources meant nutritional stress, disease, and conflict.
However, these . . . — — Map (db m61370) HM
John Henry Thompson, a noted Gila County pioneer, brought his bride, Carrie Louise Nash, to Globe to live in the house he had built on this site, one of the town's early adobe buildings. Thompson was active in mining, cattle ranching and the feed . . . — — Map (db m34119) HM
Gold and silver strikes in the 1860's created growth in the area. It is said Wyatt Earp served as sheriff of Cibola for one year in the 1890's. The town of Cibola formed in 1898 and construction began on a 16 mile canal to bring water from the river . . . — — Map (db m78552) HM
The land surrounding this cemetery represents the beginning of commercial cotton growing in Arizona.
In January 1917, during World War I, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company founded the Southwest Cotton Company to begin producing long-staple . . . — — Map (db m34554) HM
He knew no yesterdays
His living was for tomorrow
Founder of the town of Chandler
Built the San Marcos Hotel
Arizonas first veterinarian
Father of modern irrigation system
Pioneer rancher and developer of the southside area of . . . — — Map (db m70990) HM
Farm and ranch work have always been hard on machinery, making frequent repairs necessary. Throughout Sahuaro Ranch's history, most of these repairs were made here by the ranch's own employees.
This building, which is believed to have been . . . — — Map (db m40676) HM
The corrals here are the remnants of the sprawling complex of corrals and pastures needed to raise the livestock that was always important to the operations of Sahuaro Ranch.
In early years, horses and mules were the primary source of power for . . . — — Map (db m40686) HM
Although some cows were probably always kept on the ranch to supply fresh milk and butter, it was not until after Richard W. Smith bought Sahuaro Ranch in 1927 that dairy cows were raised here commercially.
At first the Smith family sold only . . . — — Map (db m40662) HM
This packing shed, constructed in 1891, is one of the oldest farm buildings on the ranch. It was designed by James M. Creighton, a prominent architect in territoral Arizona.
Exactly how the shed was used is not known, but presumably it was here . . . — — Map (db m40702) HM
The water for Sahuaro Ranch came by gravity flow from the Arizona Canal, located about two miles to the north. It was carried from the canal by a ditch on 59th Avenue known as Lateral 18 and then flowed onto the ranch through smaller ditches such . . . — — Map (db m40706) HM
The most important crops in the early years of Sahuaro Ranch were fruits and nuts. These commanded high prices, which meant they could profitably be raised here and sold to buyers across the country despite the high cost of shipping from such a . . . — — Map (db m40705) HM
National Register of Historic Places
Listed March 7, 1980
United States Department of the Interior
Sahuaro Ranch was one of the first farms in the Glendale area and a reminder of Glendales agricultural beginnings. Started by wealthy . . . — — Map (db m28088) HM
Little is known about the history of this building, which started out as a horse stable, but it almost certainly was one of the earliest work buildings to be erected at Sahuaro Ranch.
The eastern half, with the vertical wood siding, was built . . . — — Map (db m40685) HM
The barnyard was the center of activity as Sahuaro Ranch. Horses and mules were stabled, trained, and shoed here. Cattle were brought to the corrals for branding, treatment and shipment. Farm implements and wagons were stored and repaired here. . . . — — Map (db m40674) HM
When Sahuaro Ranch was built, and for some years afterward, water and electricity had to be provided by the owners themselves, often at great expense.
Drinking water was obtained from a groundwater well located in the back yard of the Main . . . — — Map (db m40638) HM
Sahuaro Ranch was established in 1886, when William H. Bartlett filed a claim to 640 acres of public land at this site. Using irrigation water delivered by the Arizona Canal, which reached the Glendale area in early 1885, Barlett and his ranch . . . — — Map (db m40656) HM
This building, which houses a groundwater well pump, is a re-creation of a Salt River Project (SRP) pump house from the 1920s. In the original pump houses, a wooden derrick was erected first and used to drill the well. Once the well was working, an . . . — — Map (db m40660) HM
National Register
of Historic Places
Listed April 9, 1998
United Stated
Department of the Interior
Manistee Ranch a treasured Glendale landmark and was the long-time home of Louis M. Sands, a pioneer of modern Arizona cattle . . . — — Map (db m30500) HM
Approximately 300 B.C. Prehistoric Indians entered the Salt River Valley. They developed an extensive canal system and raised corn, beans, squash, agave and cotton.
Over 500 miles of Hohokam canal have been recorded in the Salt River . . . — — Map (db m49877) HM
February 4, 1877 - March 10, 1969
Zebulon "Zeb" Pearce was a leading participant throughout 90 years of central Arizona history. He graduated from Tempe Normal in1899 and later went on to become a teacher, the Mayor of Mesa, city councilman, . . . — — Map (db m204891) HM
Before 1875 hundreds of heroic women came to Arizona from the East and South. From this group came Arizona's first schoolteachers and the publisher of the first newspaper.
In 1876 a group of pioneer women and their families came from the . . . — — Map (db m27385) HM
Land that was to become the Story Neighborhood (bounded by McDowell Road, Roosevelt Street, 7th Avenue, and Grand Avenue) was purchased in 1887 and 1906 by Francis Q. Story, a horticulturist known as the "father of the Sunkist Orange." Serious . . . — — Map (db m39413) HM
Jacob Waltz was born in the kingdom of Wurttemberg Germany circa 1810. He immigrated to the USA in 1839 and became a naturalized citizen in 1864. Waltz was prospecting in Arizona and is reputed to have found a gold deposit near the superstition . . . — — Map (db m74397) HM
Donated by Forest Burgess
To the city of Phoenix
November, 1976
This carriage house, originally located at 130 East Taylor, was owned by Forest Burgess and is all that remains of the Francis Marion Mognett Ranch which was established in . . . — — Map (db m27612) HM
At this site
in the Spring of 1868
S. (Frenchy) Sawyer
Built the first farm dwelling and harvested the first cultivated crop (barley) in the Anglo-American occupation of the Salt River Valley. These same fertile acres had been irrigated . . . — — Map (db m30402) HM
The Peoria train depot was constructed in 1895 at a cost of $1,455 by the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway Company. The wood-frame structure served the agricultural and ranching interests in Peoria and areas west of Phoenix until 1972. The . . . — — Map (db m126698) HM
b. July 12, 1899 Hope, NM
d. October 25, 1971 Wickenburg, AZ
Known as the cowboy's cowboy
Admired and revered by townsfolk
Father and organizer of Turtle Association 1936 which became the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association
1937 Owned . . . — — Map (db m29473) HM
Discovered in 1863 by
Henry Wickenburg and his Burro
To supply the needs of the mines and protecting military camps, the Salt River Valley irrigated agricultural industry was developed. The Vulture Mine produced 10 millions in gold and was the . . . — — Map (db m29477) HM
The plants you see all around you here are just the latest generation of spring-fed cultivation - gardens in the desert that stretch back more than 10 centuries.
The ancestors of today's Kaibab Paiute used water from this spring to grow . . . — — Map (db m256162) HM
This building has been placed on
The National Register of
Historic Places
By the United States Department of the Interior.
Bonelli House
Built 1916
Built by George Bonelli, prominent Kingman citizen, this is an excellent . . . — — Map (db m29407) HM
Visual icons of the Southwest, windmills were common in the plains and high desert from the 1800s. Metal windmills like this model became popular after 1890 because their curved blades allowed them to capture more wind, and they needed less . . . — — Map (db m274600) HM
The name "Babad Do'ag" is Tohono O'odham for "Frog Mountain." From the Tucson valley, the Santa Catalinas look like a giant sleeping frog. Tohono O'odham pronounce the word "bah-bahd-do-ahg."
The word Tucson also comes from the Tohono . . . — — Map (db m304370) HM
The Tucson Plant Materials Center
Has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of Agriculture
1997 — — Map (db m31525) HM
Dr. Smith built this house in 1904 in anticipation of his marriage to Maud North, a Tucson teacher. The house, which he designed, was the first building on the north side of Speedway. Dr. Smith was a University of Arizona professor of engineering . . . — — Map (db m83035) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m84199) HM
This seedling was grown from the very seeds that journeyed to the moon and back on board Apollo 14. It symbolizes the major role forests played in developing our American Heritage and the vital role forests have in our future.
This planting made . . . — — Map (db m83012) HM
Hired Mans 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 . . . — — Map (db m84201) HM
Behind you are many of the original buildings of the historic Empire Ranch, established in the 1870s by Edward Nye Fish on 160 acres with a four-room adobe ranch house and corral.
In 1876, Walter L. Vail and Herbert R. Hislop purchased the . . . — — Map (db m84196) HM
This Sonoran-styled adobe house was built by rancher Andronico Loroρa in 1886 and it is typical of the houses built in early Florence by ranchers. The original flat roof was replaced with a pitched roof covered with tin. Loroρa lived here with . . . — — Map (db m68358) HM
This 1881 Sonoran/Early Transitional adobe was home to the Elmer Coker family in 1907. A prominent cattleman and lawyer specializing in land and water rights. Coker was a delegate to the Arizona Constitutional Convention and is considered the father . . . — — Map (db m26626) HM
The smaller adobe outbuilding was constructed by Granville Wheat and appears on an 1869 army map of Florence. The flat earthen roof was replaced with a rare mono-pitched waterproof metal roof. The original door and wood frame remain. Wheat was a . . . — — Map (db m68341) HM
Ignacio Manjarres was a rancher in Florence as early as 1898 when a brand was registered in his name with the county. He was a charter member of the Pinal County Cattle Growers Association. At various times he raised sheep and pigs, fruit trees and . . . — — Map (db m68360) HM
Juan Avenenti, an Italian immigrant who came to Arizona about 1870, purchased this property in 1886 from Frank M. Griffen. Previously, it had belonged to Florence pioneers Levi Ruggles and Charles Douglas. Avenenti, a grocer, butcher and rancher, . . . — — Map (db m26736) HM
Established June 14, 1887. A small conical red peak gave Red Rock its name. Red Rock was a major cattle shipping point via the S.P. Railroad. This post office celebrated its
Centennial in June 1987. — — Map (db m31190) HM
While many details of life in this settlement will never be fully known, it is clear that farming, craft, and trade thrived here.
The space where you have been walking was a small part
of the farmland cultivated by the people of . . . — — Map (db m251677) HM
Pecan Lane Rural Historic Landscape was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2000.
Pecan Lane played a significant part in the agricultural history of Camp Verde. During
the late 19th century and early twentieth . . . — — Map (db m27855) HM
In memory of Wales Arnold.
Co. E, 5th Cal. Vol. Inft.: Scout in
Apache Wars: Post trader at Camp
Verde: Pioneer farmer in Verde
Valley: and of his wife, the
beloved ”Aunty Arnold” of
all the Verde. — — Map (db m100022) HM
In 1890 James and Adeline Hall purchased 130 acres here above the junction of the Agua Fria River and Lynx Creek. The Halls named their homestead "Orchard Ranch" and, with the help of their children, Sharlot and Ted, produced apples and beef. . . . — — Map (db m33059) HM
In early times. Uptown Sedona was a patchwork of orchards, homestead and pastures. In the late 1930s, the Jordans built a stone building along the highway from which to sell their fruit to the increasing traveler traffic coming down the newly . . . — — Map (db m133575) HM
Sedonas earliest permanent settlers planted fruit trees as they arrived along Oak Creek. Apples and peaches seemed to grow well along with apricots and plums. Grapevines didnt take as long to mature as fruit trees so the Schuermans planted grapes . . . — — Map (db m133679) HM
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