In Remembrance of the Quasquicentennial of the Spanish-American War
To Spanish-American War Veterans of Gila County and the Woman's Relief Corps of Arizona who Helped in the War Effort
2023
Buckey O'Neill Camp No. 175 - AZ
Sons of . . . — — Map (db m278886) WM
This property is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States Department of the Interior
Listed July 7, 1989
In 1901, a small group of pioneer women organized the Self Culture Club of Glendale with the . . . — — Map (db m30478) HM
Commemorative Air Force
Arizona Military Aviation
Walk of Honor
Proudly Recognizes
Arizonan Women Airforce Service Pilots – WASP
1942 — 1944
“We live in the wind and sand … and our eyes are on the stars!”
The . . . — — Map (db m102898) HM WM
On March 9, 1917, fifty-three women, inspired by Margaret Wheeler Ross, past president, 1914-1916, of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of Arizona, chartered the "Woman's Club of Mesa". Since 1901, Federated Women's Clubs, an international . . . — — Map (db m27554) HM
In 1919, this building was constructed as a meeting place for the General Federation of Women's Clubs – Peoria Woman's Club.
Originally located at the northwest corner of 83rd Avenue and Washington Street, the Clubhouse was restored and relocated . . . — — Map (db m30401) 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
Tempe founder Charles Trumbull Hayden built a house of willow poles on this site in 1871 and erected an adobe home, store, and blacksmith shop during the next two years. He married Sallie Davis in Visalia, California, and brought her here in 1876. . . . — — Map (db m27585) HM
1842-1907. VP AZ Territorial Suffrage Assn. 1895 and mother of US Sen. Carl Hayden who introduced suffrage resolution in congress 1913. — — Map (db m249435) HM
Begun in 1885, this adobe house was completed in February 1886 by Hiram Bradford Farmer. Professor Farmer was the first principal and sole instructor of the newly founded Territorial Normal School, now Arizona State University. Unofficially the . . . — — Map (db m27560) HM
A long line of juniper poles — like the one you see here — set 70 yards apart ended Pipe Spring’s isolation. From 1871 on, telegraph wire connected the ranch first to Utah and then to the outside world. By 1880 Mormon settlements from . . . — — Map (db m149370) HM
The “Wish You Were Here” mural was designed by artist JC Amberlyn in cooperation with the Powerhouse Visitor Center as a partnership with Arizona@Work Mohave County. It was completed by four young local artists working under Amberlyn’s . . . — — Map (db m281583) HM
Olive Ann Fairchild, Indian captive and lecturer, daughter of Royse (Royce) and Mary Ann (Sperry) Oatman, was born in Illinois is September 1837 or 1839. In 1850 the family joined a wagon train bound for the part of the Colorado River now in . . . — — Map (db m297410) HM
Olive Ann Fairchild, Indian captive and lecturer, daughter of Royse (Royce) and Mary Ann (Sperry) Oatman, was born in Illinois in September 1837 or 1839. In 1850 the family joined a wagon train bound for the part of the Colorado River now in . . . — — Map (db m188959) HM
During the first decade of the Theodore Roosevelt School, girls were housed in the old fort hospital. Since the old barracks that housed the boys was inadequate, a new boys' dormitory was scheduled for construction in 1931. Before that construction . . . — — Map (db m36878) HM
Construction began in 1930 by Jane Hatch, Lizzie Willis and Emma Kartchner. The building was neglected for several years and in the early 1950's seven couples agreed to save the home, which became the clubhouse for the 20-30 Club. On November 2, . . . — — Map (db m36695) HM
In the distance, you can see several mesas. These are called Tuutukwi or the Hopi Buttes, sacred places in Hopi religion. Today, they are used as eagle gathering areas by certain Hopi clans.
Below you are the remains of the East Plaza. Like the . . . — — Map (db m187322) HM
In 1881, Emerson Stratton, a local rancher, led botanists J.G. and Sara Plummer Lemmon to the top of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Mr. Stratton was so impressed with Mrs. Lemmon that he named the peak after her on the day they arrived at the . . . — — Map (db m302098) HM
Jewish pioneers, among Arizona's earliest settlers, began arriving in the 1850s and for half a century they worshipped in private homes and rented quarters. In 1904, the Hebrew Ladies Aid Society, now the Sisterhood of Temple Emanu-El, . . . — — Map (db m83237) HM
Named in 1869 for the convent located adjacent to San Augustín Cathedral. When the seven Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet finally arrived in 1870, they opened the city’s first parochial school for girls next to San Augustín. Three years later . . . — — Map (db m69589) HM
Named in 1869 for the convent located adjacent to San Augustín Cathedral. When the seven Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet finally arrived in 1870, they opened the city’s first parochial school for girls next to San Augustín. Three years later . . . — — Map (db m186122) HM
Named in 1869 for the convent located adjacent to San Augustín Cathedral. When the seven Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet finally arrived in 1870, they opened the city’s first parochial school for girls next to San Augustín. Three years later . . . — — Map (db m186125) HM
This adobe house incorporates portions of one of the oldest standing structures in Tucson. The two west rooms are believed to have been built before the Gadsden Purchase of 1854. Four front rooms were added in 1879.
The house was named for . . . — — Map (db m83202) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m83244) HM
The infantry barracks (no longer in existence) were 75 feet north of the hospital. The one-story building, like all of the barracks at Fort Lowell, had walls 20 inches thick, a dirt roof, and a wooden porch. The barracks were 20 feet wide and 145 . . . — — Map (db m100689) HM
This fieldstone structure was built in 1927 and served as the First Presbyterian Church until 1970. Rocks used in the construction were gathered from the desert and hauled to town. Renovation of the sanctuary was accomplished in 1984 and now serves . . . — — Map (db m27208) HM
Built for Pablo and Elena Llescas in the early 1860s, this single-story row house has two exterior walls not parallel with respect to the other walls. This indicates construction prior to the 1866 Ruggles Street Grid. This building is constructed on . . . — — Map (db m26795) HM
Emma Monk came to Arizona Territory to teach school at Fort Thomas in the 1880s. She married William Guild in 1887 and taught school in Florence off and on from 1885 to 1897 and was the first Florence principal. She also taught in Red Rock, Casa . . . — — Map (db m68337) HM
The Florence Woman's Club was organized in 1897. In 1929, architects Lescher & Mahoney designed this Spanish Colonial Revival Style clubhouse. The original light fixtures are suspended from the ceiling, and an ornate Spanish-style fireplace is . . . — — Map (db m26746) HM
Honoring Native American
Women Veterans
Dedicated February 22, 2003
American Legion Post 84
Sacaton, AZ
Sculptor: Oscar Urrea
Artist: Jim Covarrubias — — Map (db m32844) WM
John H. Cady came to Arizona as a soldier in the 1860's and was stationed at Fort Crittenden on Sonoita Creek. Later Cady became a resident of Patagonia and in December of 1900 began building the Patagonia Hotel. He continued to add to the structure . . . — — Map (db m24300) 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
With Jerome's rough and tumble early days came the red-light district and prostitutes. Much of the red-light district was located on Hull Avenue, the road below Main Street. In 1913, reformers helped pass an ordinance restricting houses of ill fame . . . — — Map (db m33154) HM
This building was originally a brothel known as Jennie's Place. It was built in 1898 by Legendary Madam Belgian Jennie Bauters, who came to Jerome from Belgium in 1896.
This was her third building on this site. The first burned down in . . . — — Map (db m33152) HM
Laura Williams owned the antique museum which housed numerous artifacts from Jerome. Laura was one of the founding members of the Jerome Historical Society and served as the Secretary/Treasurer from 1953-1974. She was an employee of Newmont . . . — — Map (db m33189) HM
There was a time when progress in Yavapai County was spelled S-P-A-R-K-E-S. Grace M. Sparkes came to Prescott, Arizona Territory, at the age of 14 in 1906. By 1911, she was working for the Yavapai County Chamber of Commerce as Secretary, a job she . . . — — Map (db m33137) HM
Prescott's first library consisted of over 300 volumes brought to the Territory in 1864 by Secretary of State Richard C. McCormick. In 1870, a group of local women opened a reading room with 263 books collected from local citizens and out-of-town . . . — — Map (db m20814) HM
During the war more than 300,000 women would join the armed forces, many helping to free men to fight on the battlefronts. They served in both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operation as clerks, radio operators, mechanics, ferry pilots, and, . . . — — Map (db m91956) HM
In 1936. Thaden won the Bendix Trophy Race in the first year women were allowed access to compete against men. She set a new world record of 14 hours, 55 minutes from New York City to Los Angeles, California. In her astonishing victory, she flew . . . — — Map (db m236883) HM
Birthplace of Amna Sager Chastain
July 4, 1847 - 1919
Wife of 4th generation descendant of revolutionary patriot the Rev. John Chastain of Virginia, her husband Jehu Thomas Chastain
March 4, 1844 - 1931 — — Map (db m299583) HM
Kentucky House Hotel established on this site 1880, Mrs. E.D. Andrews, proprietor. Building survived Great Fire 1888, disappeared by 1900. Street work 1915 created stone wall. Sharp’s Continental Oil Company gas station constructed 1928. Epley and . . . — — Map (db m79756) HM
One of the most captivating legends in Arkansas folklore
is the romantic tale of the mountain's namesake.
According to local legend, during the 18th century, a French
nobleman named Chavet was granted an expedition to explore
uncharted . . . — — Map (db m233666) HM
February 1, 1878 - December 22, 1950
Tennessee Native -Arkansas Daughter
A good southern wife in the traditional sense.
First:
Elected woman U. S. Senator
Woman to preside over the Senate
Woman chairman of a Senate committee . . . — — Map (db m227550) HM
Hattle Caraway made history in 1932 as the first woman elected to the United States Senate. A Tennessee native, she married fellow Dickson College student Thaddeus Caraway in 1902 and settled in Jonesboro, where he practiced law and entered . . . — — Map (db m299209) HM
Woolfolk is author of The History of Marion and History of Crittenden County, an award-winning newspaper editor, graduated from Memphis State Law School in 1985 at the age of 68, entered into private practice, and served as Marion . . . — — Map (db m116783) HM
Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Publicity Director Alta Smith created one of the Spa’s best-known promotional concepts. The image of the Earth’s globe resting in a bathtub visually represented the town’s slogan during the 1940’s and 1950’s, “We . . . — — Map (db m264289) HM
Orphan turned Civil Rights leader • Arkansas first female NAACP President • Co-published with L. C. Bates, award–winning Arkansas State Press newspaper • A lifetime of advocacy for equality and human rights • Sacrificed life and career to . . . — — Map (db m265096) HM
First African American admitted to a white medical school in the South • First woman President of National Medical Association • Internist of The Year of American Society of Internal Medicine, 1982 • Led health care efforts in Haiti, Africa, China . . . — — Map (db m264900) HM
Wrote international best sellers, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, And Still I Rise • Wrote poem for 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton • Won Grammy in 1994 • Nominated for Pulitzer Prize and Award Stamps, Arkansas • . . . — — Map (db m265287) HM
She was the first African-American to attend and graduate from major university in the South, the University of Arkansas Medical School, and became a successful doctor, educator and philanthropist in Arkansas, Texas and overseas. — — Map (db m264393) HM
First woman to star in her own TV Western series, Annie Oakley, TV show created by Gene Autry ran from 1953-56 • Made 32 movies for MGM, RKO, starring with Autry, Roy Rogers, Rocky Lane, Monty Hale, Jimmy Wakely, Tim Holt and Johnny Mack . . . — — Map (db m264583) HM
First woman elected to the U.S. Senate in 1932 over 7 men serving until 1944 • Beat John McClellan in 1938 when his slogan was “Arkansas needs another man in the Senate” • Co-sponsored a proposed Equal Rights Amendment in 1940 • Staunch supporter . . . — — Map (db m264493) HM
Wrote best selling book, Sex and the Single Girl 1962 • Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, 1965-1996 • Author of seven best selling books on the role of women • Winner of three Frances Holmes Advertising Copywriters awards . . . — — Map (db m264974) HM
First big role in Dazed and Confused in 1993 • Won Chicago Film Critics Most Promising Actor award • Golden Globe nomination for Chasing Amy • Starred in Big Daddy and The Break-Up • Wrote and directed Come Early . . . — — Map (db m264884) HM
The present masonry Lamar Bathhouse, completed in 1923, has a symmetrical, California style of architecture. The large lobby contains nostalgic murals of historic landscapes, and country scenes.
Art Deco stairs, signs, and lights decorated the . . . — — Map (db m61777) HM
She was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. of Philosophy degree from Columbia University. Her “doll test” research was instrumental in the success of U.S. Supreme Court 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, . . . — — Map (db m264397) HM
Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano • World famous for performances of Wagner roles in gleaming high C voice • Performed from wheelchair after contracting polio • Retired to Hot Springs where she continued to teach international students Hot Springs, . . . — — Map (db m264881) HM
1st woman to sell 1,000,000 records I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart, 1935, in any category • Country Music and Cowgirl Halls of Fame • Academy of Country Music Pioneer Award • Featured on National Barn Dance, WLS Radio from Chicago . . . — — Map (db m265202) HM
This dog park is named in honor of Batesville native
Sara Elizabeth Low. Throughout her youth, she was
known for her kindness and helpfulness to others. Sara
carried these traits through adulthood and was remembered
for them by fellow crew . . . — — Map (db m242386) HM
Miss Willie K. Hocker, author, educator, member of
Pine Bluff Chapter, National Society, Daughters
of the American Revolution and designer of
the Arkansas Flag. The flag design was adopted
in 1913 by the General Assembly. The twenty-five stars . . . — — Map (db m305311) HM
Miss Willie K. Hocker, author, educator, member of
Pine Bluff Chapter, National Society, Daughters
of the American Revolution and designer of
the Arkansas Flag. The flag design was adopted
in 1913 by the General Assembly. The twenty-five stars . . . — — Map (db m305312) HM
has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
Erected in 1937
Restored in 2007 — — Map (db m305509) HM
Miss Willie Kavanaugh Hocker of Wabbaseka
was the designer of the Arkansas state flag. Miss
Hocker, a member of the Pine Bluff Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revolution, submitted
her flag design to the Arkansas General
Assembly in . . . — — Map (db m167532) HM
Miss Willie Kavanaugh Hocker of Wabbaseka, Arkansas, designer of the Arkansas flag, and one of the most interesting personalities of the state. Miss Hocker taught in the public schools of the state for a number of years, and her knowledge of the . . . — — Map (db m167472) HM
Mary C. Patterson occupied a unique place in the history of education in Texarkana because of the Patty Hill Private Grammar School which she operated from 1924 to 1943. Mrs. Patterson’s Patty Hill School included a kindergarten and the first . . . — — Map (db m286500) HM
To the Confederate women
Whose pious ministration
To our wounded soldiers,
Soothed the last hours of those
Who died far from the objects
Of their tenderest love;
Whose domestic labors
Contributed much to supply
The wants of . . . — — Map (db m305155) HM WM
The Civil War changed the lives of Southern women in ways they could not have imagined. They lived with anxiety, fear and loneliness. As the war ground on, many felt an increasing sense of desperation and depression. The lives they had known were . . . — — Map (db m107998) HM
In 1858 a boarding school and convent was established on this site in the former residence of Col. Henry L. Biscoe by four Sisters of Mercy who came from Ireland with Bishop Andrew Byrne. The school was in the middle of heavy fighting during the . . . — — Map (db m51905) HM
This was the site of St. Catherine Convent and Academy. When it
opened in 1858, it was one of two Roman Catholic schools in
Arkansas. Opportunities for a classical education were rare in
Arkansas and the school founded by the Sisters of Mercy . . . — — Map (db m108055) HM
Erected by the J.M. Keller Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy Little Rock, Nov. 9, 1910.
In loving remembrance of the Confederate women of Arkansas.
”O dearly loved! Though ye
have gone to other stars
or spheres,
we . . . — — Map (db m157555) WM
Ed and Hilda Cornish built this Tudor Revival style house in 1919. Theo Saunders was the architect.
Ed Cornish (1871-1928), a prominent banker, was president of the German Trust Company, and later president of the American Bank of Commerce and . . . — — Map (db m211500) HM
”Whose pious ministrations to our wounded soldiers soothed the last hours of those who died for the object of their tenderest love; whose domestic labors contributed much to supply the wants of our defenders in the field; whose jealous faith . . . — — Map (db m128513) WM
Clubwoman, temperance leader and suffragist. Helped found Arkansas Equal Suffrage Association 1888. Led state efforts until her death 1899. — — Map (db m229491) HM
This was the home of Arkansas civil rights leaders L. C. and Daisy Bates. From 1941 to 1959 they published the Arkansas State Press, a Black-interest newspaper that advocated for civil rights and racial integration of public schools. As president . . . — — Map (db m294982) HM
After the U.S. Army closed Fort Smith in 1871, the guardhouse served the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas. It remained in use as a jail, detaining primarily women suspected or convicted of federal crimes until 1888. At that time, . . . — — Map (db m58128) HM
Bennett. G. Clark and Sarah W. Clark deeded this land to William Rust, John H. Cornish, John R. Hampton, and William H. Hines, trustees of El Dorado Female Institute, in 1847. May 7, 1858 Albert Rust deeded additional land to Robert Goodwin. . . . — — Map (db m121358) HM
In 1932, the Arkansas Council of Home
Demonstration Clubs established the
first Women's 4H House in America at the
University of Arkansas. Nine students lived in
the house during its first year, but it proved
so popular that the council . . . — — Map (db m224754) HM
The Chi Omega Greek theater was built in
1930 as a gift from Chi Omega, the national
women's fraternity (sorority) that was
founded at the University of Arkansas in
1895 when four coeds and a faculty adviser
chartered the mother chapter, Psi. . . . — — Map (db m224250) HM
The Chi Omega was the first Greek organization to build its own chapter house on the University of Arkansas campus. Chi Omega (Psi chapter) purchased this lot in the Oakland Place Addition in 1928. Construction begin that that same year and the new . . . — — Map (db m224732) HM
Founded April 5, 1895
University of Arkansas
by
Dr. Charles Richardson
Ina May Boles
Jobelle Holcombe
Alice Cary Simonds
Jean Marie Vincenheller
Governing Council
April 5, 1995
Melanie Maxwell Shain, S.H.
Mary Ann Hancock . . . — — Map (db m224731) HM
[Top plaque]
Built A.D. 1930
Chi Omega
Greek Theatre
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department
of the Interior
[Bottom plaque]
The Chi Omega fraternity . . . — — Map (db m224254) HM
The nation's 42nd president, William J. Clinton (1993-2001), and First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were faculty members of the University of Arkansas School of Law in the mid-1970s. Mr. Clinton started in 1973, teaching trade regulation, . . . — — Map (db m224737) HM
On November 15, 1913, the Delta Iota chapter of
Delta Delta Delta sorority became the fourth
sorority installed at the University of Arkansas.
Founders were Juanita Moore, Vesta Kilgore, Aileen
McCoy, Bess Phillips, Anna Bryant, Alma . . . — — Map (db m224719) HM
Imagine living in Fayetteville in 1866. The city with a population just under 1000 was still mourning its dead and rebuilding from the destruction of the War Between the States. Mass graves, lonely graves in pastures and roadsides held the remains . . . — — Map (db m224151) HM
T.B. Van Horne, first pastor of First
Baptist Church, founded Fayetteville
Female Institute on this site in 1858.
Later rechartered in 1861 as Northwest
Arkansas Baptist Female Institute, it
housed a Federal arsenal which was
destroyed by . . . — — Map (db m224239) HM
Bev Lewis was a pioneer for women's athletics throughout her 33 years at the University of Arkansas, 19 of which (1989-2007) she spent as the Director of Women's Athletics. The hallmark of that stint was the continued growth and excellence of the . . . — — Map (db m305550) HM
The first Director of Women's Athletics, Ruth Cohoon was instrumental in laying the foundation for the growth and success of female student-athletes at the University of Arkansas. Cohoon began her career as a swimming instructor and advocated for . . . — — Map (db m305561) HM
On this site stood the former home of Dr. James W.
Webb (1878 1947) and Mrs. Joy Nelson Webb
(1891-1976). Dr. Webb also owned and operated a
dentist office on this property. Mrs. Webb published
and edited the weekly Prairie Grove . . . — — Map (db m225087) HM
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