History of Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Journey back in time to Phoenix, Arizona, USA

• 1866 - Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply Camp McDowell.
  
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• Phoenix founded
  In 1867, Jack Swilling of Wickenburg stopped to rest his horse at the foot of the north slopes of the White Tank Mountains. He looked down and across ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1881 - February 5 - Phoenix, Az incorporates
  
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• 1889 - State capital moved to Phoenix from Tucson
  
  
  
• 1895 - Phoenix
  Phoenix, fee'nix, a city, since 1890 the capital of Arizona and the seat of justice of Maricopa co., 226 miles N.E. from Yuma, and 35 miles N. of Mari...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Southern Pacific Depot
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  Hotel Adams and Valley National Bank Building
  
  "Built in 1896, Phoenix's original Hotel Adams... was the city's first luxury hotel."
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  "The Hotel Adams, Phoenix’s first luxury hotel, was destroyed by a fire in 1910..."
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  Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona (1902)
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• 1903 - MUCH DYNAMITE EXPLODES.
  PHOENIX, Ariz., June 5.- An explosion was heard here tonight in the direction of Alhambra. A freight train on the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix has not...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Fair Grounds
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• 1906
  Phoenix, a city, since 1890 the capital of Arizona and the seat of justice of Maricopa co., 226 miles NE. of Yuma, on the Southern Pacific and the San...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  High School, 1908
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•  1910 - UTTER DESTRUCTION OF HOTEL ADAMS. ARIZONA'S MOST FAMOUS HOSTELRY WRAPPED IN FLAME AND SMOKE WAS THE TERRIFYING YET GORGEOUS SPECTACLE WHICH SMOTE THE EYE OF THE EARLY RISING CITIZEN.
  GUESTS CALLED FROM THEIR BEDS TO ENCOUNTER A STIFLING ATMOSPHERE IN THE CORRIDORS WHICH TO THE LATER ONES HAD BECOME IMPASSABLE - THE ESCAPE OF ALL WA...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Court House, 1910
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  Looking West from Third Street
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  Indian School, 1915
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  Irrigation Canal and Came Back Mountain, Phoenix, Ariz.
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• 1929 - February 8 - KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
  
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  Post Office and Westward Ho., N. Central Ave.
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  State Capitol, 1936
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  The Water Users' Buildings
  
  Description: Phoenix Water Users Building
  Address: Van Buren and Second Avenue, near site of Y.M.C.A. Building
  Type: commercial
  Date: ca. 1912
  Condition: demolished
  Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
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  Residence of P. K. Wrigley, Biltmore Estates, 1937
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  Good Samaritan Hospital
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  St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1944
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  Church of St. Thomas the Apostle
  2312 E Campbell Ave., Phoenix, ARIZONA 85016
  Established 1950
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•  1954 - 30 PLANES WRECKED BY 70 M.P.H. WIND.
  Phoenix, June 13. - (AP) - Cartwheeling across rainswept Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, 30 light planes were wrecked yesterday in a 70-mile-an-hour blow ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal), 1954
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•  1972 - June 11 - Heavy showers brought 1.64 inches of rain to Phoenix AZ, a record for the month of June.
  
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  June 11, 1972
  
  
• 1990 - The hottest recorded day in Phoenix was June 26, 1990, when the temperature hit 122 degrees.
  
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