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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Phoenix, Arizona. Official Website History Paleo & Archaic Indian Period The first inhabitants of the desert southwest, including what would become Phoenix, called Paleo-Indians, were hunters and gatherers. The term "paleo", is derived from the Greek word “palaios,” meaning ancient. They hunted Pleistocene animals, such as mammoth...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Maricopa County, Arizona. Official Website Founded on February 14, 1871, Maricopa County was named after the Maricopa Indians. Adjacent Counties La Paz County Yavapai County Yuma County Gila County Pinal County Pima County Cities Avondale Buckeye Chandler
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pima County, Arizona. Official Website Pima County, one of the four original counties in Arizona, was created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature with land acquired through the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico in 1853. The county is named after the Pima Native Americans who are indigenous to this area. Adjacent Counties Maric...
The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles of land in Ar...
West Resthaven Park Cemetery in Glendale, Arizona, USA was established in 1945/ 1947, is over 90 acres, and since 1993 has been owned by the Dignity Memorial national network. The current main offices and chapel were built in 2009 and are at 6450 West Northern Avenue, in Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, while the small original main office at 6490 West Northern Avenue is now used as a speci...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tucson, Arizona. Official Website Tucson is the county seat of Pima County. It is also known as "The Old Pueblo". Tucson was founded as a military fort by the Spanish when Hugo O'Conor authorized the construction of Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón in 1775. It was included in the state of Sonora after Mexico gained independence from...
Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
Luke Air Force Base (IATA: LUF, ICAO: KLUF, FAA LID: LUF) is a United States Air Force base in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is located 7 miles west of the central business district of Glendale, and 15 miles west of Phoenix. Luke AFB is a major training base of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), training pilots in the F-16 Fighting Falcon. On 31 March 2011, the F-35 L...
Greenwood Memorial Park was established in 1906 by Arizona Lodge #2 of the Free and Accepted Masons. In 1947, Memory Lawn Memorial Park was established as a separate cemetery to the west of the existing Greenwood. These two cemeteries were combined in 1989 which created the largest cemetery in Arizona. Still active, there are well over 100,000 souls interred at the combined facility. The cemet...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yavapai County, Arizona. Official Website Yavapai County was one of the four original Arizona counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature. The county territory was defined as being east of longitude 113° 20' and north of the Gila River. The county is named after the Yavapai people, who were the principal inhabitants ...
From the Wikipedia Article on Arizona State University .Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public flagship metropolitan research university located on five campuses across the Phoenix, Arizona, Metropolitan Area. A sixth campus located in northwestern Arizona is known as the ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City. ASU is the largest public university by enrol...
Wikipedia The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. UA was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885 (twenty-seven years before the Arizona Territory achieved statehood). The university includes the Banner-University Medical Center Tucson, which operates a separate 4-yea...
Glendale, Arizona Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Glendale, Arizona. Glendale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, located about nine miles northwest from Downtown Phoenix. According to the 2017 U.S. Census estimates, the population of the city is 246,709. In the late 1800s what is now known as Glendale, Arizona, was all desert. Notable people ...
The Border War was part of the greater Mexican Revolution. At points in the war, the rebels were supported by the German Empire. Wikipedia The Border War, or the Border Campaign, refers to the military engagements which took place in the Mexico-United States border region of North America during the Mexican Revolution. The Bandit War in Texas was part of the Border War. From the beginning of...
This project is part of the State of Arizona Portal. = This project is for those from Alabama and/or their respective Counties. This project is for those from the state of Arizona . There are 15 counties in the U.S. state of Arizona. Four counties (Mohave, Pima, Yavapai and Yuma) were created in 1864 following the organization of the Arizona Territory in 1862. The now defunct Pah-Ute...
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral=Project designed to capture participants in the gunfight as well as associates, relations, and others involved before and after. This includes those involved in the trial of the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday, the Cowboy retribution and the Earp Vendetta Ride. Wikipedia O.K. Corral Historic Site The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a gunfight that took place at about ...
The Apache (/əˈpætʃi/) are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and Janero), Salinero, Plains (Kataka or Semat or "Kiowa-Apache") and Western Apache (Aravaipa, Pinaleño, Coyotero, Tonto). Distant cousins of the Apache a...
Wikipedia =National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona.23029 North Cave Creek Road Phoenix, AZ 85024 Phone: 480-513-3600 FAX: 480-513-1412 Burial status - Open Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Navajo County, Arizona. Official Website Navajo County was created on March 21, 1895. It was the location for many of the events of the Pleasant Valley War. The Pleasant Valley War, sometimes called the Tonto Basin Feud, or Tonto Basin War, or Tewksbury-Graham Feud, was a range war fought in Pleasant Valley, Arizona in the years 188...
The Hopi are a Native American ethnic group who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census, there are 19,338 Hopi in the country. The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation within the United States and has government-to-government relations with the United States federal government. Particular villages retain autonomy under the Hopi Constituti...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yuma County, Arizona. Official Website Yuma County was one of four original Arizona counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature.[4] The county territory was defined as being west of longitude 113° 20' and south of the Bill Williams River. Adjacent Counties La Paz County Maricopa County Pima County Sonora, M...
This project is for those buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona. Find a Grave Billion Graves Arizona Gravestones
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Official Website Santa Cruz County, formed on March 15, 1899 and is named after the Santa Cruz River. The river originates in the Canelo Hills in the eastern portion of the county, crosses south into Mexico near the community of Santa Cruz, Sonora and then bends northwards returning into the United States...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pinal County, Arizona. Official Website The county was founded in 1875 and the name "Pinal" is said to come from the pine-clad Pinal Mountains. Adjacent Counties Maricopa County Gila County Graham County Pima County Cities & Towns Apache Junction (part) Casa Grande Coolidge Eloy Florence (County Seat) Kearn...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mohave County, Arizona. Official Website Mohave County was the one of four original Arizona Counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature. The county's present boundaries were established in 1881. The county is also notable for being home to a large polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ...