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The town of Phoenix was settled in 1867, and incorporated in 1881 as the City of Phoenix. Phoenix served as an agricultural area that depended on large-scale irrigation projects. Until World War II, the economy was based on the "Five C's": cotton, citrus, cattle, climate, and copper.
April 1: the Desert Training Center, formed by General George S. Patton, is created. The base, located in the Mojave Desert in Southern California and the Sonoran Desert in western Arizona, stretched to within 50 miles of Phoenix. [8] [45] June 22: Thunderbird Field #2 opens in nearby Scottsdale.
The history of Arizona encompasses the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Post-Archaic, Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. About 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, Paleo-Indians settled in what is now Arizona. A few thousand years ago, the Ancestral Puebloan, the Hohokam, the Mogollon and the Sinagua cultures inhabited the state.
Website. www .phoenix .gov. Phoenix ( / ˈfiːnɪks / ⓘ FEE-niks [8] [9]) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. [10] It is the fifth-most populous city in the United States and the most populous state capital in the country.
Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /, kə-LUM-bəs) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.With a 2020 census population of 905,748, [10] it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest (after only Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital, after only Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas.
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. [1] It was officially named the North Central Region by the U.S. Census Bureau until 1984. [2]
Barry Goldwater loses the U.S. presidential election. September 21, 1981. Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Grand Canyon. West Mitten at Monument Valley. The following is a timeline of the history of the area which today comprises the U.S. state of Arizona. Situated in the desert southwest, for millennia ...
Arizona’s 3rd District, currently represented by Gallego, has a rich Latino history: The area sent Arizona’s first Latino member of Congress, Ed Pastor, to Washington before Gallego continued ...