Casa Grande

Casa Grande PDF

Author: Dawn Snell

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738579535

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Casa Grande, Arizona, is located on desert and farmland between Tucson and Phoenix and began as the end of an unfinished railroad line--thus its early name, Terminus. On May 19, 1879, when early summer heat halted construction of the railroad in what would soon become Casa Grande, only three buildings and five residents constituted the town. The names reflect the ethnic diversity of the sparse population: Buckalew, Ochoa, Smith, Watzlavocki, and Fryer. In September 1880, executives of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company named the town Casa Grande after the prehistoric Hohokam Indian ruins located 20 miles to the east. This volume illustrates how a desert railroad stop grew into a city. Today, as Casa Grande's population increases, new neighborhoods, schools, malls, and entertainment venues provide exciting new reasons for living here. However, as the population grows, the town struggles to retain its identity as an agricultural community.

Casa Grande, Arizona

Casa Grande, Arizona PDF

Author: Jesse Walter Fewkes

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781358034213

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Diverting the Gila

Diverting the Gila PDF

Author: David H. DeJong

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0816541744

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Diverting the Gilaexplores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of Arizona's Gila River among residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Indians in the early part of the twentieth century. It is the sequel to David H. DeJong's 2009 Stealing the Gila, and it continues to tell the story of the forerunner to the San Carlos Irrigation Project and the Gila River Indian Community's struggle to regain access to their water.