Arizona State University: ASU launches groundbreaking database of Sonoran Desert archaeology . “The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology, housed within tDAR, focuses on the archaeology of the ancient Sonoran Desert and the ancestors of the O’odham people living in central Arizona today.”
#OnThisDay, 30 May 1899, Pearl Hart (and Joe Boot) hold up a stagecoach in Arizona: it's one of just two recorded instances of a woman holding up a coach in the US.
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Arizona Department of Transportation: Arizona Highways launches digital archive spanning 100 years. “With Arizona Highways magazine celebrating its centennial, subscribers now can peruse every issue, photograph and article thanks to a new digital archive with robust search features…. Whether you’re exploring the original Arizona Highways edition in April 1925 or something more recent, the […]
Ranger Sarah learns about the Anza Trail which passes by Tumacacori NHP. The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail commemorates the route traveled by settlers from Mexico to the San Francisco Bay Area.
— at Tumacácori National Historical Park.
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Ranger Sarah walks through the orchard. Quite a few of the trees have fruit on them. The fruit trees that you see growing here today were started from seeds and cuttings of old cultivar fruit trees—the oldest trees that could be found in historic orchards and yards throughout southern Arizona. This replanted orchard was dedicated in 2007.
— at Tumacácori National Historical Park.
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Ranger Sarah walks through the gate into the orchard at Tumacacori. Within this 4.6 acre enclosure, the community grew vegetables and fruit trees. Since there are few fruit trees native to this area, the orchard would have contained favorite trees brought to the mission from Europe such as peach, pomegranate, quince, and fig.
— at Tumacácori National Historical Park.
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Ranger Sarah reads about the orchard at Tumacacori. The establishment of a mission brought new fruits, imported from Europe and considered essential to a “civilized” life by the priests and settlers. As farmers, the O’odham welcomed these new crops.
— at Tumacácori National Historical Park.
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Ranger Sarah looks at what is left of the Acequia. The fired adobe structure is part of the acequia madre, the main irrigation channel that brought water to the mission from the Santa Cruz River a mile or more to the south.
— at Tumacácori National Historical Park.
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Ranger Sarah approaches the Acequia. The all important water was taken out of the Santa Cruz River nearly a mile upstream to the south of here through a series of channels.
— at Tumacácori National Historical Park.
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